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  "description": "Anna J. Foerster (born 1971) is a German-born American film and television cinematographer and director. She is best known for collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, working under different capacities on every film directed by him dating back to Independence Day (1996), with the exception of the film The Patriot (2000).\n\nAs a second unit cinematographer, Foerster worked on the films Alien Resurrection (1997), Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002), Johnson Family Vacation (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Æon Flux (2005), and 10,000 BC (2008), also working as a second unit director on the latter four films.\n\nShe was the cinematographer for the visual effects and/or miniature unit on Independence Day)Day (1996Godzilla (1998), Pitch Black (2000), and Stuart Little 2 (2002).\n\nAs a director, she directed five episodes of the television series Criminal Minds, an episode of its spin-off Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour, three episodes of Unforgettable, and four episodes of the Starz series Outlander.\n\nIn 2008, she was reported to be developing a film, Secret Hunter, based on the Ranulph Fiennes novel The Secret Hunters (2002).\n\nFoerster made her feature film directing debut with the action horror film Underworld: Blood Wars (2016).In 2016, J. J. Abrams and his production company, Bad Robot, hired Foerster to direct Lou, a thriller about a mother trying to recover her abducted child.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Anna Foerster, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.",
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