#32 | Taboos on Screen with Director Ana Pio

This week we have another exciting episode for you! Our guest this week is the amazing Ana Pio. She is a film director who studied Music, specializing in Piano, from the age of 10. Later, she pursued her studies in Cinema at University of Beira Interior in Portugal, complemented with a semester at the University of Lincoln, UK. She directed and produced her debut short film, in 2014, "I Welcome You to This House", funded by the Portuguese Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual. In 2015, she specialized in Directing by completing "Ode" and "Eden" during her Masters at Met Film School, in London, where she currently lives. "Eden" screened in over 25 international film festivals, won the Women in Film Achievement Award at the New Renaissance Film Festival and was later distributed by Shorts International.

In this episode we talk to Ana about her introduction into the film industry and her current passion for destigmatising women's relationship with blood in films! 

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See you next week for another exciting interview!

This episode was hosted by Malin Evita and Shania Bethune, guest starring Ana Pio, and edited by Shania Bethune. For more information go to womeninfilm.co.uk