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Ana Asensio is an actress and filmmaker born in Madrid and currently living in New York City.
Actress: Most Beautiful Island. Ana Asensio was born in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. She is an actress and producer, known for Most Beautiful Island (2017), La niña de la cabra and The Archive (2015).
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- Actress, Producer, Director
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- Uncomfortable Life
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“The final scene didn’t come out the way I wanted it to,” she admits. “I really wanted the roaches to climb and start crawling over me, and me to just be passive. “But the moment one started crawling on my finger, I freaked out because the roaches I originally got were very small and didn’t really know how to swim, but the ones this guy provided me...
For a first film, Most Beautiful Island is a startlingly accomplished piece of work and follows down-at-heel Luciana over the course of one, highly eventful, day in her life. Split into two distinct halves, the first is an intimate socio-realist tale shining a spotlight onto our protagonist’s hard-scrabble existence, the second sees her plunged int...
Asensio was born in Madrid in 1978, worked on Spanish TV as an actress in a teenage drama and a host on her country’s national lottery show, before moving to New York in 2001. “I saw the Michael Winterbottom movie, Wonderland, and I don’t know why but it inspired me to say, ‘I’m quitting, I’m going to live an uncomfortable life, I’m going to move t...
Films about immigrants or refugees often seem terrified of making their protagonists anything less than innocent paragons of virtue – the recent Hungarian movie Jupiter’s Mooneven posited the idea that a Syrian refugee might be the Messiah. It’s all very liberal and well-meaning, but also a bit patronizing, as if people from other countries have no...
Seeing the film and talking to Asensio, you soon become aware easy options aren’t something she has any interest in. That said, taking on so many roles – writer, actor, director and producer – to get the film off the ground was an enormous amount of hard work and an experience she is in no hurry to repeat on her next project, a thriller, again set ...
Before the interview winds down, we return to the subject of creepy-crawlies and the film’s climactic moments in which Luciana and her Russian acquaintance and fellow migrant Olga (Natasha Romanova) are forced to participate in a bizarre betting game for the delight and delectation of a group of Manhattan one-percenters. I won’t spoil it by going i...
Ana Asensio is a Madrid-born actress and filmmaker who wrote, directed and starred in Most Beautiful Island, a gripping drama about an undocumented migrant in New York. She talks about her inspiration, challenges, and the roaches scene in this interview.
Ana Asensio talks about her debut feature as writer, director, producer and lead actress, inspired by her own experiences as a Spanish immigrant in New York City. She reveals the challenges, collaborations and surprises of making a genre film with Glass Eye Pix.
Ana Asensio (Madrid, 4 de abril de 1978) 1 es una actriz, guionista y directora de cine española. Biografía. Ana Asensio nació el 4 de abril de 1978 en Madrid, España. Comenzó a actuar en obras de teatro para niños mientras todavía estudiaba Actuación y Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Nov 24, 2017 · Ana Asensio is the writer, director, and star of Most Beautiful Island, a film about a young undocumented woman in New York. She talks about the challenges and rewards of filming a scene where she is covered in spiders.
Jun 2, 2018 · The Fan Carpet's Marc Jason Ali sat down at the BFI London Film Festival with Writer/ Director and Actress Ana Asensio to talk about her debut feature Most Beautiful Island. ...more.
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