2020 Spirit Award nominee, Anna Margarita Albelo is an out, Cuban-American writer, director and producer working in film, television, and digital content. Based in Los Angeles, Anna is developing a feature film with Issa Rae and Deniese Davis' Color Creative. Her 2014 award winning feature, "Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?" was released theatrically in France and her 2008 short film, "The Turkey" screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2008. She also served as a juror for the Cannes Film festival Queer Palm Award in 2014 and as an ambassador for the Queer Palm in 2019. As a producer, Anna produced "Wild Nights with Emily" by Madeleine Olnek starring Molly Shannon in 2018 (Nominated for the John Cassavetes Award, Spirit Award 2020), as well as, an 8-part series for Anthony Bourdain/The Perfect Dish Asia/CNN, Summer, 2017. Anna spent the first 15 years of her career in Paris, France and was a regular collaborator for French network, Canal Plus, writing and directing several broadcast documentaries and shorts on LGBT culture, also appearing as a recurring correspondent for the series, "L'Oeil de Links." Her body of work, screened in over 150 international festivals, blends narrative, documentary, and comedic elements into a unique story-telling style that has become her trademark. LA Weekly calls her work, "Riveting" and IndieWire spotlighted her as a "Filmmaker to watch!"
Up Next in Season 1
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Brunch with the band VON IVA
Von Iva was an all-girl electro soul-punk group out of San Francisco. The band was part of the "Hell on Heels Tour" and appeared live at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California March 11, 2009. The band performs in the 6th and final episode of the surfing lesbian reality series Curl Girls.
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Brunch with Mariah Robinson
This week, Bridget brunches with writer and actress Mariah Gretchen Robinson. Mariah has since passed but her memory and talent will live on through her stories.
Mariah talks about politics, sexual fluidity, and the “lost” explicit love scene she shared with Bridget in the WB web series Joni & ...
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Brunch with Stacy Lentz
Stacy Marie Lentz (born April 17, 1970) is an American lesbian LGBT rights activist, and a co-owner of the Stonewall Inn, and co-founder of the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative. Stonewall Inn is the birthplace of the modern gay rights movements after the 1969 Stonewall riots and forms part of ...
