Ana Coyne Alonso

Ana Coyne Alonso is a documentary filmmaker. She has written, directed and produced five short films currently screening in various national and international festivals, art galleries and museums, including the Modern Museum of Art in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Her last film, White Dresses received the 1995 Cary Grant Film Award of the Princess Grace Awards for emerging artists. She calls her work "interpretive" filmmaking--films utilizing both documentary and narrative strategies to convey meaning.

Half-Nicaraguan, half-North American, Ana received a Bachelor of Arts in History from Dartmouth College and a Master of Science from Columbia's School of Journalism. She studied film at the University of California, San Diego with cinematographer and filmmaker Babette Mangolte and director Jean-Pierre Gorin.

Between 1986 and 1991, Ana worked for NBC News and as a stringer for Agence-France Press in Central America. In 1991, she worked photographing for the Associated Press in the former Soviet Union where she covered the 1991 Bush-Gorbachev summit, events in The Baltics, Moscow and Armenia.

In 1992, she began working in film as a documentary producer for the Radio, Film and Television Department of UNICEF-New York. There she produced Breastfeeding for UNICEF-New York and Street Girls for UNICEF-Managua, a documentary on adolescent prostitutes. She has worked on Dmitri Astrahan's feature film The Fourth Planet in Russia and on Ken Loach's Carla's Song in Nicaragua. She is currently on a lecture tour at universities, theater and museums speaking about her work.

White Dresses
A film by Ana Coyne Alonso, 1996, 33 min., BW
"This rare film brilliantly combines a lyrical aesthetic with insightful political and gender analysis. Employing both documentary and narrative tech...