Anna La Chocha

My new short film is finished and selected for Cannes "Critic's Week" ! It's called THE TURKEY and here are excerpts from French TV with my amazing actress, SHEILA ! You can see an entire scene of the film in the interview, video is 3mins !
2nd video, the "MAKING-OF" of the film ! (French)
"La Dinde" est fini!
Diffusion sur Canal+ le 6 FEVRIER à 22H
Projection au Festival de Clermont Ferrand le 7 FEVRIER
Synopsis:
Le Jour J de l'émancipation d'une femme bourgeoise de sa famille ingrate. Hélène a tout. Elle a dédié sa vie à sa maison parfaite, ses enfants, son mari, ses fleurs... C'est son anniversaire mais ce soir, elle fera leur fête! Un film dédié à la fin d'une génération des femmes de foyer.
Réalisateur: Anna Margarita Albelo
Scénaristes: Anna Margarita Albelo, Patrick Thévenin
Directeur photographie: Jean Marc Selva
Ingénieur du son: Yolande Decarsin
Montage: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Interprète : Sheila, Michèle Garcia, Xavier Robic, Anna La Chocha, Mélusine Raynaud, Raphaelle Valenti...
Musique: Marc Tassell, DJ Chloé
Produit par LOCAL FILM, PARIS.
Anna has started production in Paris to shoot her new short 35mm film, "La Dinde" (English Title, "The Turkey".)
Based on her original screenplay co-written with famed french journalist, Patrick Thevenin, La Dinde is a bitter-sweet tale of the emancipation of a bored, bourgois housewife starring French singing legend, SHEILA!
(In collaboration with Canal Plus.)
Anna, accompanied by her producer, Jamin O'Brien (John Doe Entertainment), has just completed the Tribeca Film Festival's ALL ACCESS program as a Narrative Writer/Director with her coming-of-age feature film, "THE PAPAYA FACTORY."
Anna's travel documentary for Canal Plus on the Dinah Shore Weekend is currently touring the world!
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Biography of Anna Margarita Albelo, FILMMAKER:
Cuban-American “Globe-Trotter,” Anna Margarita Albelo has been living and working in Paris, France since 1993 as an independent director, journalist, video artist, and sometimes surrealist performer.
Her work, behind and in front of the camera ranges from narrative and documentary to experimental fiction and comedy sketches, has aired on Canal Plus, ARTE, Pink TV, MCM, Paris Premier, and Q-TV; as well as, participated in over 25 renowned international film festivals.
Anna has completed an original, half hour documentary, “A Lez in Wonderland” on the Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs for French Television, Canal Plus (France), with whom she has already directed a 10-minute documentary on Los Angeles. She is also a regular contributor to Pink TV (France), directing cultural news pieces and interviews on the Berlinale Film Festival, Barbara Hammer, Peaches, Amanda Lepore, Nelson Sullivan, the Saxenhausen Concentration Camp, Larry Tee, Patty LaBelle, and the Mathew Shepard Play, among others.
In 2006, Anna was on the Documentary Jury at the Turin Film Festival, a semi-finalist for the AFI’s Women’s Directing Workshop and a Spring 2005 Narrative Honoree at the IFP New York's Project Involve. While in New York, Anna co-directed with famed performance artist Penny Arcade and Steve Zehentner the feature documentary, "Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia" (72 minutes), which won the prestigious Audience Award for Best (Original) Soundtrack at OUTFEST, Los Angeles. In January 2005, she happily attended the Sundance Film Festival to speak on the panel on Gay Television organized by the Queer Lounge.
An internationally recognized “Do-it-yourself” filmmaker, Anna has been honored by four prestigious European Retrospectives of her shorts in some of the world's most important gay and lesbian film festivals:
Paris GLFF (2003),
Madrid Reina Sofia Museum (2004),
Turin GLFF (2005)
Amsterdam GLFF (2005)
and featured at LADYFEST, Berlin (2006).
A special collection of her shorts is actually touring Latin America for a second, consecutive year in major cities of Argentina, Columbia, and Paraguay. Her Super-16 short film, "Koko" is featured in the compilation, "Short Shorts” distributed by Picture This! Entertainment and remains one of the highest selling lesbian compilations to date.
Anna has completed her feature film script, The Papaya Factory, a musical comedy about a fourteen year old Cuban-American girl in 1984 Miami which participated at this year's TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL'S ALL ACCESS.
A native of Miami, Anna Margarita Albelo is a graduate from Florida State University and attended film school in London as a Bernard Sliger Presidential Scholarship winner, studying with Derek Jarman's cinematographer Christopher Hughes.
She is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and French and is a fanatical supporter of film festivals, women’s interest, anthropology, French wines, and her “education through comedy” principle.
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Biography of Anna La Chocha, STAR Journalist, Host, and Performer:
Social cameleon made for home and travel. Great side-kick and partner in crime, said to be an innovative humanitarian and friend to all animals. My dream is to see Napoleon's tomb in Paris where his imperial coffin floats on a sea of gold.