Ani Kyd Wolf is a Canadian Metis vocalist, musician, director, writer, producer. She started the film company Sugar Skull Films in 2010 and has been creating various multimedia projects ever since. Ani has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, starting her career out and continuing as a musician and vocalist.

MUSIC

Ani Kyd has been a member of the Alternative Tentacles roster since 2005 and in 2016 she became Ani Kyd Wolf. She started out in the 1990’s as the fierce lead singer for the punk band Rumble Fish, then guitarist and vocalist for the grunge style female fronted group Spank Machine with Gerry Jenn Wilson. Ani has played in various bands in the Vancouver area for over 30 year and in that time has played with some incredible musicians along the way, Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Brian Goble, John Card and so many more.

Ani played guitar for THOR in the early 2000’s and is on THOR’s 2003 album “Triumphant” as well as being in many of THOR’s videos. She has sung back up vocals on a Jello Biafra album or two and in 2005 she released her first album on Alternative Tentacles called “Evil Needs Candy Too”. She then released two more albums “Past Demons” in 2011 and “ Entangle” in 2014. On Aug 15th 2023 A.T. released Ani’s fourth album, the 30 year old recording of Spank Machine “ Spank You Very Much”. This was a tribute album to the late Gerry Jenn Wilson. “The Last Steps of Man-Un-Kind” is Ani’s 5th album on A.T. This powerful album was co-written and co-produced by the diverse and talented Marc L’Esperance. Many great guest musicians including Canadian bass guitar legend Don Binns and award winning indigenous singer Sandy Scofield grace this album.

In April of 2023 Ani was invited to play acoustic guitar for Ministry on the Ministry / Gary Numan / Front Line Assembly tour. Ani’s other projects include BOOTS with Al Jourgensen and Royal Strays with Don Binns and Don Short produced by Dave Ogilvie.

VISUAL MEDIA

Since creating her film production company Sugar Skull Films in 2010, Ani Has created music videos, series concept reels, pilot episodes and short films. She received a shout out in Rolling Stone Magazine for her work on the Jello Biafra videos in 2022.

As a Producer she has a keen eye for successful content and a huge network of contacts. August 2020 she was a producer on the biopic drama “THE SILENT NATURAL” with director DAVID RISOTTO.

As a consulting producer she continues to move talented content creators closer to their goals on multiple projects by connecting the dots and creating bridges for them with distribution and development services.

As an Executive Producer she has developed content with AARON NORRIS, SHEREE J WILSON, TIM RUSS, JOHN A RUSSO, JELLO BIAFRA and many more. In 2024 she was an Executive Producer on the western feature THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME written by John Russo and distributed by Lionsgate.

In 2023 Ani helped create Jello Biafra's podcast "Renegade Round Table" with Anne Marie Anderson.

As a director she has directed dozens of music videos, TV / series pilots, episodes and shorts films. Some Industry professionals have stated that Ani’s unique vision draws from a diverse palette from multiple platforms of the music and entertainment industries, giving her a perspective rare to come by. Ani’s hard tenacious work ethic, depth of knowledge and strong female perspective makes her work as a Director invaluable to a project. 

In 2024 Ani directed, produced and edited award nominated music videos for Stephen Hamm, Art Bergmenn and Joy Thieves.