ABOUT
Anna Pimonova is a screenwriter and narrative designer. Anna specializes in horror, thrillers, and detective stories, utilizing these genres to their full potential to tell profoundly psychological stories.

As a narrative designer, Anna works closely with the game developing studio Ice-Pick Lodge. She worked on several games by the studio, such as Franz (2023) and Pathologic: Bachelor (TBA). In 2020, Anna created her own company, Black Bile Games, dedicated to developing experimental horror games.

Besides her work in video games, Anna is also a screenwriter. She contributed TV series for Russian TV3 and Mars Media Entertainment, worked as a story editor on the feature-length films in KD Studios and her short films were screened in Cannes and continue to receive awards at international film festivals.

Anna's life is closely aligned with literature. From a young age her poems were published in literary magazines. In 2021, she released her book, Scary Tales.
PORTFOLIO
GAMES

PORTFOLIO

FILMS

PUBLICATIONS
In 2021, Anna wrote and produced her own book – “Scary Tales”. This book is written in the style of urban legends, each story is a metaphor for a psychological trauma. Utilizing all the tools of the horror genre, Anna explores such topics as separation of children from parents; the burden of loneliness; addiction as an unconscious form of protest, and much more.

The book is available for purchase in these stores:
Amazon
MyBook
Apple Books
Google Books


MEDIA

Interview for the Red Barn podcast on the topic of “Can you consider a video game a work of art?”
Podcast with Nikolay Dybowski and Anna Pimonova about the importance of video games in the world of art.

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PROJECTS

A little girl who lost her father believes his spirit is talking to her through an elderberry bush at the cemetery, but the elderberry's voice belongs to a deranged killer intent on playing a horrifying game with the child.
An aging man who has spent his life searching for his former beloved finally finds her, only to discover she has lost her mind, which sends him on a quest to restore her sanity through care, psychology, and even magic.
A young ballerina starts turning into a butterfly because of her scheming mother who seeks to raise the perfect dancer.
Kaylie, a young programming genius, winds up at an experimental psychiatric clinic where patients are turned into docile slaves, and teams up with other inmates to escape.
Seeking to get rid of her rapist stepfather, Willie, a religious highschooler, goes against her faith to make a deal with the devil.
A pregnant girl hates her future baby due to her psychological trauma, but everything changes after she goes to an old-fashioned health resort where a mystery woman sets out to get her fetus.
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