Anja Salomonowitz lives as script author and filmdirector in vienna. She studied film editing and directing in Vienna and Berlin. Her documentaries on the border to fiction film have been attracting international attention: "It happened just before" won several awards, for example the "Wiener Filmpreis" at the Viennale 2006 or the "Caligari Filmprize" from the Forum at the Berlinale 2007. "Spain" is her first feature film and will be released in 2012.

Anja Salomonowitz has two sons and lives with her family in Vienna.