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Lucrecia Martel
Born	December 14, 1966 (age 42); Salta, Argentina
Occupation	Film Director, producer & screenwriter.

Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966 in Salta, Argentina) is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.^[1]

According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998.^[2]

[edit] Biography

Martel studied at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX) and then attended the National Experimentation Filmmaking School (ENERC) in Buenos Aires.^[3]

Yet, because one of the film schools she attended closed for lack of funds, she maintains she was self-taught. Martel said, "I watched movies, I read books, I wrote. I was a free mind, because I had to be."^[4]

She directed a number of short films between 1988 and 1994. The award winning short film Rey Muerto (Dead King) (1995) was part of Historias Breves I (Brief Tales I).

Her debut film La Ciénaga received several international awards, and was voted the greatest Latin American film of the decade in a poll of New York area film critics, programmers and industry professionals ^[5]. The Holy Girl was selected for competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival^[6] and ranked ninth in the same poll, while The Headless Woman was selected for competition at Cannes in 2008 and ranked eighth. Additionally, James Quandt of Artforum declared The Headless Woman as "one of the great films of the decade." ^[7]

She was a member of the Cannes Film Festival Feature Films Jury in 2006.

[edit] Filmography

El 56 (1988)
Piso 24 (1989)
Besos rojos (1991)
Rey muerto (1995) (short)
La Ciénaga (2001) aka The Swamp
The Holy Girl (2004), aka La Niña santa (2004)
La mujer sin cabeza (2008), aka The Headless Woman

[edit] Television

D.N.I. (1995), TV Series

[edit] Awards

Wins

Havana Film Festival: Coral Best Short Film; for Rey muerto; 1995.
Sundance Film Festival: NHK Award; for La Ciénaga, (Latin America); 1999.
Uruguay International Film Festival: First Work Award - Special Mention; for La Ciénaga; 2001.
Toulouse Latin America Film Festival: French Critics' Discovery Award; Grand Prix; for La Ciénaga; 2001.
Havana Film Festival: Best Director; Grand Coral - First Prize; for La Ciénaga; 2001.
Berlin International Film Festival: Alfred Bauer Award; for La Ciénaga; 2001.
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor; Best First Film; for : La Ciénaga; 2002.
Clarin Entertainment Awards: Clarin Award Film Best Director; for La Niña santa; 2004.
São Paulo International Film Festival: Critics Award - Honorable Mention; for La Niña santa; 2004.

Nominations

Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Berlin Bear; for La Ciénaga; 2001.
Argentine Film Critics Association Awards: Silver Condor; Best Director, Best Original Screenplay; for La Ciénaga; 2002.
Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm; for La Niña santa; 2004.^[6]

[edit] References

^ Lucrecia Martel at the Internet Movie Database
^ Poblete, Joel. Mabuse Film Magazine, "El cine argentino está muy vital," July 11, 2006.
^ Cannes Film Festival - bio and filmography at Cannes.
^ Telegraph. Film review of La Ciénaga, October 2001.
^ http://www.cinematropical.com/programming.php?pid=3
^ ^a ^b "Festival de Cannes: The Holy Girl". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4201595/year/2004.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
^ [1]Film review of "The Headless Woman"

[edit] External links

Lucrecia Martel at cinenacional.com (Spanish).

[0] Lucrecia Martel at the Internet Movie Database

[1] Poblete, Joel. Mabuse Film Magazine, "El cine argentino está muy vital," July 11, 2006.

[2] Cannes Film Festival - bio and filmography at Cannes.

[3] Telegraph. Film review of La Ciénaga, October 2001.

[4] ttp://www.cinematropical.com/programming.php?pid=3

[cannes-2004.com-5] "Festival de Cannes: The Holy Girl". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4201595/year/2004.html. Retrieved 2009-11-30.

[6] [1]Film review of "The Headless Woman"

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