Anna Reid Jhirad, founder of Marigold Productions, LLC, is an award-winning writer/producer of documentaries for primetime national television, museums, educational markets, IMAX screenings, and international media markets. Her films turn to history to understand dilemmas facing society today. 

She was a lead writer/producer on numerous PBS documentaries, among them Impressionists on the Seine; Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening; and Power to Heal.  She was development producer on the international IMAX film Flight of the Butterflies and Assistant Director/Writer on Looking East: William Howard Taft’s 1905 Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, a photographic exhibition appearing in the U.S. and China. 

Programs on which she has worked have won major awards, among them an Academy Award Nomination, local Emmys, Cine Golden Eagle, Jade Award for Excellence in Writing, Best Environmental Film, Dupont Columbia Award, film festival awards, and others.  The Last Battlefront is her first as film director.  

The film is available for private screenings for community and faith-based organizations, among other civil society actors. Fill out the following form, and someone will be in touch.

The Last Battlefront tells the important story behind why so many Washington D.C. residents advocate for D.C. Statehood.

Washington, D.C. is one of the only capitals in the world where its citizens have no representation in the national legislature and where Congress and federal authorities routinely intrude on the local government of the District. The film looks at four turning points in the history of Washington, D.C. to understand how this happened and the struggles of D.C. residents to restore their basic rights of self-government that other Americans enjoy. 

Anne Anderson is a Unitarian Universalist and community leader with the Washington, D.C. League of Women Voters (LWVDC) and a clinical social worker (retired). She is the mother of three wonderful children and grandmother of three astonishing grandchildren.  

Anne has advocated for D.C. Statehood since 1971. In her work on D.C. Statehood, Anne brings a deep wellspring of conviction for universal voting rights and commitment to our UU values.