2020 Spirit Award nominee, Anna Margarita Albelo is an out, Cuban-American writer, director and producer working in film, television, and digital content. 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. Anna also served as a juror for the Cannes Film festival Queer Palm Award in 2014 and as their ambassador in 2019. As a producer, Anna produced "Wild Nights with Emily" by Madeleine Olnek starring Molly Shannon (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. She 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!"
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Biography from IMDb.
- Director, actor, producer and writer
- 4 on MovieCove · 20 credits in all
What are Anna Margarita Albelo's films like?
Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 3
A split, not a type: Light 2 · Serious 1 · Dark 1
Grounded 1 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 0
Steady 1 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 2
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 0
A split, not a type: Resolved 2 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
- Heroas Anna in Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)
Moods and endings
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Anna Margarita Albelo's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 3 of their 4 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Anna Margarita Albelo's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
20 credits, 4 with a MovieCove page.
Saint Clare(2024)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all films
Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
The Never List(2020)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
Wild Nights with Emily(2018)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
Cock N' Bull 2 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Vagina Is the Warmest Color (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Hooters! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
The Owls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
The Turkey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Gay... So What? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
A Lez in Wonderland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Barbara Hammer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
L'Exit (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Queer Realities and Cultural Amnesia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Un Monde à L (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Yes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Chez Moune (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Koko (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)
Clare at 16 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 19 titles, 18 of them dated from 1997 to 2023.
Awards
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2020.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Anna Margarita Albelo's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 29th percentile, the median of all 4; across a limited sample of 4 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 27th percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
4 of their 4 titles are Mixed.
- Mixed4
Reviewers score the pacing 38/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 58, detractors 25. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Anna Margarita Albelo work with?
People who share at least 2 of Anna Margarita Albelo's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Guinevere Turner shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Guinevere TurnerShared titles: Saint Clare (2024), Wild Nights with Emily (2018), Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)See all 3 shared titles with Guinevere Turner
- Joel MichaelyShared titles: Saint Clare (2024), Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Joel Michaely
- Drew DroegeShared titles: The Never List (2020), Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Drew Droege
