Ana Carrizales
Biography
Ana Carrizales is a Peruvian-Canadian writer, filmmaker and producer based in Vancouver, BC. She has directed and produced a number of films and short docs. Most recently, she produced the sci-fi drama The Shipment (Tribeca 2019, Palms Springs 2019, Hollyshorts 2019) and documentary The Day Don Died (Hot Docs 2019, Palm Springs 2019). Her latest film project, A Pregnant Woman (writer / director), was the recipient of the 2019 Harold Greenberg Fund and BC Arts Council Media Assistance Grant and is currently in post-production. Most recently, her feature documentary Shaman’s Shadow received The Rogers’ Developmental Fund and was accepted by the Whistler Documentary Lab. An engaged community member with a passion for supporting underrepresented voices in film, she has served on the boards of The Documentary Organization of Canada - BC Chapter (2017-2019) and the Vancouver Latin-American Film Festival (2017-2019). She also served as a juror for the DOXA Film Festival, Vancouver International Women in Film and Television Film Festival and VLAFF, and in 2018 volunteered as screener in the Whistler Film Festival. In addition to raising her two year old daughter Gabrielle, Ana is an instructor at Vancouver Film School, where she teaches film production.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Señora Gómez
Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital's surgical unit. Unable to personally connect with those around him, Shaun uses his extraordinary medical gifts to save lives and challenge the skepticism of his colleagues.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Lourdes Luna
Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Drama Series - 2012, 16 episodes • as Child's Mother
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Nell
Set in a remote Alaskan town that has been overrun by paranormal forces, the series focuses on local outcast Roman Mercer who must overcome the town’s prejudices and his own personal demons if he’s to harness his repressed psychic powers and save everyone from the mass haunting that’s threatening to destroy them all.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Housewife
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent.
Movie - 2010, 2h 15m • as Female Slave
Welcome to Riverworld, a place of strange, watery beauty and the current abode of a fascinating cast of the recently (and not-so-recently) dead. It certainly isn't Heaven, but it just might be Hell.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Eva
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.