Ana Gonzalez is a producer, journalist, and non fiction director with over a decade of industry experience. She has collaborated with companies such as the BBC, CNN, National Geographic, TIME, Al Jazeera, ARTE, El Pais, Renault, Instagram or Shutterstock, among others.
As a producer, Ana has specialised in di... Read More
Ana Gonzalez is a producer, journalist, and non fiction director with over a decade of industry experience. She has collaborated with companies such as the BBC, CNN, National Geographic, TIME, Al Jazeera, ARTE, El Pais, Renault, Instagram or Shutterstock, among others.
As a producer, Ana has specialised in difficult-access subjects. Some of her key skills as are managing film teams, schedules and budgets, getting permits, booking crews, negotiating deals, doing research and solving all kinds of unexpected problems.
In 2023, she worked as a producer for Qatar TV's Etqan show - a 20-episode series that follows author and athlete Ali Bin Towar through Qatar, South Korea, France, Germany and the USA. Previously, she worked as the Spain producer for NatGeo's Trafficked – getting access to the complex organised crime underworld for the episodes "Hash Smugglers" and "Fish Pirates," as well as being part of the research and production team for these and two extra episodes on 3D printed guns and crypto crime. "Fish Pirates" - an episode revolving about environmental crime and endangered species, where she had collaborated in the research and production, was nominated to several Emmy Awards.
As a director, she has told stories from dozens of countries, from the Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy to the Monarch butterfly sanctuary in Michoacan, Mexico – passing through Asia, the Middle East, Europe and North America.
In 2021, her documentary “Flamenco Queer” was released by The New Yorker with support from the Pulitzer Center – an initiative that went on to reach more than a million views on TNY digital channels and was shown in over 20 festivals. A project driven by Ana's interest in giving a voice to unsung heroes, and breaking up with the clichés that hunt her home country of Spain.
She was previously a correspondent for press agency Efe/EPA in Paris and Bangkok, where she helped the company set up its multimedia headquarters for Asia – a continent she went on to explore extensively during four years as a freelance journalist/film director with a base in Indonesia.
*Right to work in both, the UK and the EU. Fluent in English, Spanish and French.
**In 2020, Ana founded Eye Rise Films – a production company working on commercial, branded and unscripted projects.
website: www.eyerisefilms.com
AWARDS "FLAMENCO QUEER" • Best Documentary – Crossroads International Short Film Festival, Turkey (2021) • First Prize – Festival Internacional Cámara Corporizada, Argentina (2021) • Special Audience Award – Nahia Film Festival, Spain (2021) • Best International Short Documentary – ÍCARO Festival Internacional De Cine En Centroamérica, Guatemala (2021)
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