Ana Valine is an award-winning writer and director who is recognized as one of Canada’s exciting new filmmakers.
“dark, stylish and often lyrical drama that’s just quirky and comical enough”
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail review: Sitting on the Edge of Marlene
She has written, directed and produced fiction, experimental and documentary films through her independent production company, Rodeo Queen Pictures.
Hot on the heels of her feature film debut, Sitting on the Edge of Marlene, Ana is currently working on her much anticipated second feature film. Her first feature received rave reviews and has been called, “a movie that rattles you and never lets you feel completely comfortable, which is exactly the appeal of it,” (VanCity Buzz Review.)
Sitting on the Edge of Marlene: Awards & Nominations
- VIFF (Vancouver International Film Festival):
- Best Emerging BC Filmmaker Award
- Best Canadian Feature Nomination
- Best BC Film Nomination
- The Women in Film and Television Artistic Merit Award
- The Women In the Director’s Chair: Feature Film Award
- WIFT-T Kodak: New Vision Mentorship Award
- WIFTV Whistler Film Festival: Mentorship Award
- The Female Eye Film Festival: Best Screenplay Award
- Leo Award Nominations: Best Feature, Direction, Screenwriting, Picture Edit, Production Design and Female lead
- Leo Awards: Direction and Production Design Awards
- Female Eye Film Festival: Best Canadian Feature Award
- Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations: Best Supporting Actor in a Canadian Film & Best First Film by a Canadian Director
- Busan International Film Festival: Flash Forward Nomination
Marlene has finished touring the international festival circuit and is currently on iTunes in Canada, with distribution in Canada through eOne and US distributors, Breaking Glass.
Ana Valine is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab & Short Dramatic Film Program and WIDC at Banff, and has spent most of her life in the arts. From theatre, visual arts and writing to filmmaking, her creative endeavours have been enhanced with varied life experiences including a welder’s apprenticeship on the Alberta pipeline, training horses, tree planting, and special event and music tours.
Her earlier works include the short films, alice & bastard, a love poem, Nightmare on Cambie Street and How Eunice Got Her Baby. All have screened at film festivals internationally and have been honoured with several awards both in Canada and abroad.
Ana has been interviewed and featured in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Province, Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, Global TV, CBC Radio’s the ‘Early Edition’ & ‘On the Coast’, CKNW Radio, Vancity Buzz, “Midnight Rider Radio Program”, in Busan, and on CBC French Television.
She has just completed principal photography on her second feature, makes art and dance films, and continues her work on women’s strive/thrive stories to bring those who live on the outside into view.