Maria A. Ruggieri (Hong Kong)
Head of Sales & Acquisitions
Asian Shadows

Maria is the Head of Sales & Acquisitions of Asian Shadows.

She is a Sinologist, a Beijing Film Academy Alumni and Berlinale Talents Alumni. She is the program consultant on Chinese Popular Cinema for Udine Far East Film Festival. She was China-correspondent for Venice Film Festival and Locarno Film Festival and program consultant for Beijing Film Festival Forward Future. As a creative producer she has worked on the Indonesia–France–Malaysia–Thailand co-production Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts by Mouly Surya (2017, Cannes Directors’ Fortnight; 10 Citra Awards; Indonesia Oscars Entry).


Company bio

Hong Kong-based International Sales Boutique Company Asian Shadows, founded by producer Isabelle Glachant, represents and sells worldwide Asian films by Asian Director-Storytellers of Asia. Its selection includes auteurs’ visions as well as director-driven stories by Asian Masters’ and New Talents’ voices: observational, creative, conceptual, cinematic, narrative works, questioning reality while focusing on political, social, historical, cultural, and women issues. Asian Shadows aim to promote Asian independent cinema to the global stage and to the International audience, market and industry, working on various aspects of the film including creative production, festival strategy, and international distribution. In line-up: Master Wang Bing’s collection Three Sisters, Alone, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part, Ta’ang, Mrs Fang, Man in Black; Master Soda Kazuhiro’s Zero, Mental, and The Cats of Gokogu Shrine; Master Wang Xioashuai’s Chinese portrait; New Talents Wang Qiong’s All About My Sisters, animator artist Lei Lei’s Breathless Animals and Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish, Joseph Mangat’s Divine Factory