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Anna Franquesa Solano

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Biography

Anna Franquesa Solano is a Cinematographer based in New York. She has worked on numerous projects from feature films and documentaries, to commercials, branded content and shorts. Anna has benefited from her background in Art History and Theory, from which she still draws a great deal of influence. Her work has screened at Cannes, Sundance, Telluride, Locarno, MOMA, Sitges International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, D'A Film Festival, Docs Barcelona, Hamptons International Film Festival among many others. Anna's collaboration on Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell”, won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and a Golden Globe for Best Actress. She recently received an AICP Award for her cinematography work on the Apple Commercial "Nian". She is currently working on an Amazon TV Series called Expats starring Nicole Kidman.

Known For

Expats
6.7

Set against the complex tapestry of Hong Kong residents, a multifaceted group of women sets off a chain of life-altering events that leaves everyone navigating the intricate balance between blame and accountability.

Expats

2024
The Farewell
7.4

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Farewell

2019
Nothing Personal
5.0

Lina, a well-known TV host, appears at Pedro’s doorstep to confront him about a cruel message he posted about her online. What begins as a showdown soon turns into an awkward living arrangement that quietly reshapes them both.

Nothing Personal

2026
Buck Run
6.0

Set in rural Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Shaw, a bullied outsider, is trying to cope with his mother’s death and a reunion with his estranged, alcoholic father.

Buck Run

2019
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
5.3

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing

2019
Safe
5.0

On a winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son needs help out of an illicit bind.

Safe

2021
Abel
6.0

Abel, 17, a first-generation Mexican-American, finds solace in the arms of his aging father as the two reconnect over their shared sense of loss.

Abel

2024
Indiana
3.7

A disillusioned demon hunter considers leaving the field, but on the insistence of his more eager partner, agrees to take on one more case that could change his life forever.

Indiana

2017
Bag Boy Lover Boy
3.2

Oddball hot dog vendor Albert is shocked to find himself becoming the bizarre muse of enigmatic NYC photographer Ivan Worthington. But shocks come his way even more so when he finds out how difficult is is to succeed in the art world, leading him to take his own photographs that suit his very unique - and very limited - skill set.

Bag Boy Lover Boy

2014
What Remains
4.5

Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is the day he decides to sell it.

What Remains

2021
Silent Notes
N/A

After finding out he is going deaf, Bruce is stuck at a crossroads: he needs a surgical intervention that he can’t afford. In his attempt to find a solution that will get him the money, he meets Ethan, a lonely man who needs above all someone to talk to. The unlikely pair will embark on a journey of no return, where Ethan can’t stop talking to Bruce, who is unable to hear.

Silent Notes

2024
Glance Up
N/A

Joan Pahisa is 27 years old and has a huge passion: basketball. It would be nothing extraordinary except for a detail: he's exactly one meter tall. Joan's life has not been easy, but sport has helped him go ahead. Last summer he took part in the World Dwarf Games in Michigan, USA, an Olympic-style competition that's held every four years exclusively for little people. Joan was the only representative from Spain because he couldn't find anyone else to go with him. That's why he specialized himself in table tennis, an individual sport. He traveled 7.000 km to feel like at home and also to fulfill his dreams: to be World Champion in table tennis and, above all, to play basketball one more time, most probably the last. His trip will show us how the world is seen from just one meter from the ground. It's not only about sport, it's about life itself.

Glance Up

2014
Singing on the Rooftops
7.0

Gilda Love / Eduardo, the last transformist of the Chinese neighborhood of Barcelona, survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. His priorities are altered with the arrival to his life of Chloe and her mother, Hanna, with whom he will have the opportunity to form the family he has never had.

Singing on the Rooftops

2022
I Am With You
N/A

Chanel Miller, a survivor of sexual assault, tells her story in her own words and drawings.

I Am With You

2019