Zel Anders is a producer and writer who identifies as a feminist queer tomboy. They split their time between northern Spain and the United States.

Their heroes include: the extraordinary modernist writer Virginia Woolf, 19th century gender equity advocate and voting rights advocate Susan B. Anthony; 18th century American feminist Abigail Adams, 20th century modernist publisher and Paris bookstore owner Sylvia Beach,  19th century California entrepreneur Juana Briones, 19th century indigenous Omaha tribe physician Dr. Susan La Flesche, and, Lillian Faderman, an internationally known scholar of lesbian and LGBTQ+ history and literature. Zel is beyond thrilled to be making feature films or limited series about each of these amazing women – most of whom sought to break open doors for women and minorities around them and  for future generations. Zel is very happy to be bringing their stories to new generations.  The projects include a limited series of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN and narrative feature-length films including THE PARIS BOOKSELLER, A WOMAN OF THREE NATIONS, NAKED IN THE PROMISED LAND, A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE, and ABIGAIL AND PATIENCE.

Music has been a big part of Zel’s life with their family and wife and so they were immediately drawn to the script by Joanne Bellew for Un Violon and are in the development process with a great team of to filmmakers to film the short live action project and bring it globally to the big screen.

Zel served as executive producer on four additional projects and as a producer and co-director on a project that was filmed during the women’s marches in responses to Donald Trump’s election as U.S. President. 

Zel is writing and developing a short film called 28 Easy Steps to Becoming U.S. President.  In 2016, Zel directed nine short documentary films based on the U.S. Presidential Election. The Elders for Hillary videos received 150,000 views on Facebook in the week before the election. Zel didn't believe a woman's studies instructor who in 1983 told her students that she wasn't sure that anyone would live long enough to see a woman become U.S. President. Zel has often thought about this statement and 41 years later Zel remains stunned and saddened by the fact that there has yet to be a woman elected as U.S. President. 

In 2012, Zel founded Tomboy Tailors - a company specializing in producing bespoke men’s suits for women’s bodies & for agender & transgender folks. In the business’s first weeks, Tomboy Tailors & Anders received coverage in the Huffington Post, Jezebel, & the San Francisco Chronicle. Within months, Anders and the company received coverage in the New York Times, Curve Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, & Entrepreneur Magazine. The company’s mission was to help people feel freer to express their individual sense of style in clothing. The company did not survive the start-up process.

Zel is also interested in LGBTQ rights, ending domestic violence, gender identity, caring for our environment, educating the next generation, and in being a kind global citizen.