Story by

Ruth is a multi-award-winning actor/writer/producer. She and her sister immigrated to SoCal from Mexico to reunite with their parents when she was six. Ruth wrote a series of short stories based on her life growing up in a trailer park throughout elementary school: the bullying, (and all those hours hiding in the library!), her family’s work in the fields, and the process of learning a new language… A-N-D-R-E-A is based on one of these short stories.

Writer/Director/Producer

Armando immigrated from Mexico to the U.S. with his single mom and two younger sisters when he was five years old. He is a veteran actor with dozens of Theatre, TV, Film, and VO credits. He’s lived and worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. After years of traveling the world in search of ever-more interesting stories and characters, his first film A-N-D-R-E-A as writer/director/producer is, of course, reminiscent of his own childhood.

Associate Producer

Like Andrea, Ramona is the daughter of an enterprising single mother. First in her family to earn a college degree, she graduated from Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film & Television. Her credits include producing a Telly Award winning PSA about homelessness featuring Oscar winner Jaimie Foxx and Ryan Seacrest. Ramona is currently producing a range of projects based on the “minority” human experience in America.

Andrea

A-N-D-R-E-A is Natalia’s first professional acting role. They come from a family of immigrants, their grandparents and father immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico. Natalia grew up with a single mother and would often stay with their abuelita because mom worked full time. As someone who had a grandma who didn’t speak or understand English, Natalia often had to translate for her, quite like how Andrea had to help her mother in the film.

Clara

Valentina is a two-time SOVAS award-winner for Best Voice Over, as well as a World Premiere Film Awards winner for Best Actress in a short film. Originally from Colombia, she immigrated to the U.S. in 2010. She is the real-life mom of Hannah Plascencia who plays her daughter Bobbie in A-N-D-R-E-A.

Bobbie

Hannah is a 6-year-old bilingual dynamo. Already a seasoned professional actor, A-N-D-R-E-A is her first starring role.

Marco

Beto is originally from Tijuana, Mexico. He left medical school to pursue his true passion- acting. He is an alumnus of the New York Film Academy. Beto is an accomplished voice over, film, television and theater actor working in L.A.

DMV clerk

Vivia is a Los Angeles based actor.

Driving Examiner

Akihiro immigrated to the U.S. from Japan after garnering international success for his frequent collaboration with acclaimed Japanese director Sion Sono in such films as "Why Don't You Play in Hell?", "Tokyo Tribe", "Shinjuku Swan 2" and a nine-part horror television miniseries "Tokyo Vampire Hotel". He is an alumnus of the Beverly Hills Playhouse as well as the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Director of Photography

Edd is an award-winning cinematographer, who has been the director of photography on over 25 feature films for major distributors including Warner Bros, Lionsgate, and Sony. He has twice been recognized by Variety as one of their “Up Next- Cinematographers to Watch.” Edd holds two M.A. degrees one from the London Film School and one from AFI. His detailed preparation and ability to improvise in the moment were crucial to the look and feel of A-N-D-R-E-A.

Editor

Carla is a multi-award-winning editor from Barcelona, Spain. In 2019 she was selected to be a mentee in the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship. Carla is a passionate documentary filmmaker focused on stories and issues that explore the modern human experience. On A-N-D-R-E-A, she was able to infuse her documentary cutting style to compliment the subtle documentary flavor of the film. 

Art/Titles

Mohammed is an award-winning UK based street-artist. Drawing on his Muslim faith and heritage as the son of an immigrant, he’s painted murals from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne and from New York to South Africa. He currently serves as a city museum trustee at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the UK. He joined the A-N-D-R-E-A team because he is committed to addressing the increasing polarization of multi-cultural society through art.

Sound Design/Mix

Daniel is a composer/producer who graduated Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston. He is a recipient of a Fleur de Cap nomination in Music Composition for the Handspring Puppet Company’s production of Ouroboros, as well as the 1st runner-up in the American Mid-South Grammys Showcase. After years working in the U.S., he returned to the country of his birth- South Africa- to build the state-of-the-art Edible Audio Studios.

Composer

Raul is a singer, songwriter, music producer and founding member of the legendary L.A. band Ozomatli. A native Angeleno from Boyle Heights, Raul is a 3-time Grammy winner who has represented his home town in over 60 countries giving insight to a collective and positive worldview of his city and the world. His musical mission is to help continue the singly unique experience offered in the development of songwriting and song presentation.

Producer

Joe is a multi-award-winning actor/writer/producer/director from Los Angeles. He has a deep and varied background in theater, internet-episodic, and educational productions, as well as podcasting and feature films. Although A-N-D-R-E-A had a tiny budget and was helmed by a first-time director, Joe was convinced to come aboard and help produce by the honesty of this moving, atypical immigrant story.