- Birth nameMa. Anna L. Asuncion
- Nicknames
- Ma-an
- Totot
- Tetet
- Height1.55 m
- Ma-an L. Asuncion-Dagñalan is an acclaimed director and screenwriter, recognized for her award-winning work in Philippine cinema. She won Best Director at the 2022 Cinemalaya Film Festival and the 2023 Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) Awards. Her film Blue Room received international acclaim, winning Best Foreign Film at the 2023 LA Femme International Film Festival. She was also a Pro Online Delegate at the 74th Locarno International Film Festival. Blue Room is currently available on Netflix in Southeast Asia.
In 2025, Ma-an was selected as a participant in the Rotterdam Lab at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Originally from San Fernando, Pampanga, she began her cinematic journey in 2003, studying cinematography before expanding her expertise in Mexican filmmaking under Gustavo Loza in 2006. She trained under National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Ricky Lee and screenwriter Armando Lao.
Ma-an also played a key role in Layang Bilanggo, which won top honors at the 2010 Cinema One Originals Film Festival.- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseMichael Angelo Dagñalan(December 12, 2012 - present)
- Won, Best Screenplay, Michael Angelo Dagñalan, Ma-an L. Asuncion-Dagñalan, Melchor Escarcha for Layang Bilanggo (2010), 6th Cinema One Originals Digital Film Festival 2010.
- Attended Ricky Lee's Script Writing Workshop in July to October 2018. This is where Ma-an finished her full-length script entitled, "Blue Room".
- She was a colorist of Quark Henares' "Malacañang 1968" in an anthology of comic-book shorts Siglo:Passion, which was launched on December 10, 2005 in Fully Booked Greenhills.
- Started writing "Blue Room" in 2010 in Mr. Armando Lao's Found Story Scriptwriting Workshop.
- She was a Finalist for "Blue Room" in DGPI QCinema Film Pitching in 2019, and she won 3rd prize from CMB Film Services.
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