The Veló agency will carry out the casting of ‘Half of Ana’, which deals with transsexuality in childhood through a mother and a son in the 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 from 5 to 9 years old”, according to the call made on their social networks. Families interested in participating in the film ‘La medio de Ana’ should send an email to [email protected], where Ana Sainz-Trápaga and Patricia Álvarez de Miranda, responsible for the selection process, will answer any questions about the project. that addresses transsexuality in childhood through a mother and a son in the 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 2020 European Film Awards, has been working for years on his first feature film.
The Murcian actress Marta Nieto. /
“I think the story I have in my hands is so powerful, that I’m putting 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 with support of 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 this summer overwhelmed and dazzled the audience at the San Javier Theater Festival with ‘La infamia’, a dramatic work about the kidnapping of the Mexican journalist Lidia Cacho, participated last year in ‘Tres’, the feature debut of the talented Juanjo Giménez.
Residency at the Film Academy
‘Half of Ana’, this time as a director, has the support of the production companies Avalon PC and Elastica Films. Nieto, who will also star in Jaime Chávarri’s new feature film, ‘The Golden Apple’, participated with this project in the residency program of the Film Academy, with the support of the Madrid City Council.
His intention is to start shooting it “in the spring of next year or if not, at the end of this year, although I would like it to be in the spring to have more time,” he said in February in the Colpisa conversations
In the cycle that the Colpisa news agency prepared on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Murcian said that her first feature film as a director will tell, from the point of view of a mother, the story of a seven-year-old trans boy. Her intention is to start shooting it “in the spring of next year or if not, at the end of this year, although I would like it to be in the spring to have more time,” she detailed in February 2022.
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