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Anna Friða Giudice (born October 11, 1974) is an Italian visual artist, designer, filmmaker and professor from Savona, Italy, who attended IUAV, Iceland University of the Arts and University of Iceland. She lives and works in Los Angeles. Previously she ran a design studio in downtown Reykjavík where she design since 2011.

Anna Friða Giudice worked as a designer for Sigur Ròs, Jònsi & Alex, Marketa Irglova, Low Roar, and Andrew Sheps. 2014, she won "the Best Works of the Year 2014—Album Covers", a FÍT Awards, with the Low Roar Album "0." Inspired by Iceland, her designs have been displayed at Milan Furniture Fair in Milan and Design March in Reykjavik. She has worked as a designer, set designer,r and art director in the film industry, including for Interstellar, Game of Thrones, Monster Mash, and more.

In 2016, she became an Adjunct Professor at Iceland University of the Arts, and in 2023, she joined Lesley University's Department of Art and Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2021, her first documentary, Soul of the Lands, about the connection between Iceland and a Native American was released. The documentary features a group of people who took part in the first sweat lodge, a Native American ritual brought to Iceland over 25 years ago. They reflect on their experiences and analyze the ritual's significance in today's community. The documentary includes interviews with the artist Goddur Magnusson and the shaman Somp Noh Noh from California, who shares what the ritual means to him and discusses the issue of cultural appreciation. The film was nominated for Best Documentary at Reykjavík International Film Festival and Red Nation Film Festival.

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