Ileana D. Vasquez is a Telly, Gold Aurora and Accolade Award winning visionary and talented writer/director and producer whose storytelling focuses on the complexities and diversities of characters to reveal truths in human interactions. Vasquez's work reveals her background in fine arts, experimental and improvisational theater and employs cutting- edge technologies to create a surrealist balance with the emotion of a story. Ileana is influenced by masters such as Kubrick, Buneul, Jean Cocteau, Tarkovsky, Guillermo del Toro, Truffaut, Inarritu, Malick, Hitchcock, Christopher Nolan, Cassavetes and Vera Chytlalova (Czech New Wave). Ileana is trilingual and holds a BFA from UCLA. An exhibited photographer, she has also studied acting in Paris and experimental theater under Rachel Rosenthal. She has participated in Women In Film, Los Angeles programs under the mentorship of Mark Ordesky and Jane Fleming, shadowed director Betty Thomas on the set of Grace and Frankie, and interned with Producer Stanley Kramer. Ileana has previously received sponsorship for her work from IFP (Gotham), Paris Film and sponsors such as Christian Dior and Vanessa Bruno. Ileana is presently in development with a slate of feature projects she set to direct.
