Maya’s father
Maya Sansa is the Italian actress who’s currently hitting the headlines. After appearing in The Wet Nurse by Marco Bellocchio in 1999, Italian and French audiences have had a further opportunity to enjoy her work in this year’s award winning The Best of Youth [+see also:
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film profile], being shown in competition, tomorrow at Venice, there’s been a further opportunity to see her acting in the medium length film directed by the South African Matthew Brown, My Father’s Garden, in competition in the New Territories section.
In the film, produced by Andrea Paris for Ascent film, the young actress is at the centre of a series of incomprehensible events, shown in a dream-like style. “The director– says Maya Sansa - wrote the screenplay inspired by my true life story. My character meets her father at the age of 25, I met mine when I was 15. It’s a very unusual experience to enter into a world which you should have known since you were born, but which you only actually get to know many years later”.
Andrea Paris will also be producing Matthew Brown’s first feature length film, Tres y medio, once again starring Maya Sansa and Andrea Di Stefano.
(Translated from Italian)
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