Lucrecia Martel
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled
down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She
started by directing a few shorts among which
Historias Breves I: Rey muerto (1995), which garnered
several awards in the international film festival circuit. From 1995 to
1998, she made a series of documentaries for TV as well as a children's
TV programme, hailed by the Argentinian press for its unusual dark
humor. From 2001 until today, Lucrecia Martel has managed to make three
very personal feature films,
The Swamp (2001),
The Holy Girl (2004) and
The Headless Woman (2008),
in which she explores her favorite theme, troubled minds.
