The agency Veló will conduct the casting of ‘Half of Ana’, which deals with transsexuality in childhood through a mother and a son in a process of change
For the first feature film to be directed by Murcian actress Marta Nieto (Murcia, 1982), the film and television casting agency Veló Casting is looking for “trans children or non-binary children aged 5 to 9 years,” according to the call. made on their social networks. Families interested in participating in the film ‘La medio de Ana’ can send an email to velocastingcine@gmail.com, where Ana Sainz-Trápaga and Patricia Álvarez de Miranda, in charge of the selection process, answer all questions about the project will answer. is about transsexuality in childhood through a mother and a son in a process of change.
Marta Nieto, winner of the Horizontes Award for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s feature film ‘Mama’, for which she was also nominated for the Best European Actress Award at the European Film Awards 2020, has been working on his first feature film for years.
“I think the story I have in my hands is so powerful that I put a lot of myself into it because it’s a responsibility to tell it well and I’m passionate about it,” he said in an interview with Iker. Cortés in 2019. ‘Half of Ana’, a film supported by the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), will once again put Marta Nieto behind the cameras, who already directed the short ‘Son’.
The performer, who wowed and dazzled audiences at the San Javier Theater Festival this summer with “La infamia,” a dramatic work about the kidnapping of Mexican journalist Lidia Cacho, took part in “Tres,” the feature debut of the talented Juanjo, last year. Gimenez.
‘Half of Ana’, this time as director, is supported by production companies Avalon PC and Elastica Films. Nieto, who will also star in Jaime Chávarri’s new feature film, ‘The Golden Apple’, took part in the Film Academy’s residency program with this project, with the support of the Madrid City Council.
In the cycle that Colpisa news agency prepared to mark the 50th anniversary, the Murcian said that her first feature film as a director will tell the story of a seven-year-old transgender, from a mother’s point of view. boy. His intention is to start it “in the spring of next year or if not, by the end of this year, although I wish it would be in the spring to have more time,” he said in February 2022.
Source: La Verdad
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