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Lucía Carreras

Lucía Carreras

Birth : , Mexico City, Mexico

History

Lucía Montserrat Carreras Navarro (born 1973), better known as Lucía Carreras, is a mexican director and screenwriter who debuted with the feature film Nos vemos, papá (Missing Dad, 2011), premiered at the 47th Karlovy Vary Film Festival. He co-directed with Ana V. Bojórquez the Mexico-Guatemala co-production The Greatest House in the World, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Huelva Festival in 2015, among other awards. His third feature film, the Mexico-Spain co-production Tamara y la Catarina, with a script he wrote, had its world premiere as part of the official selection of the Toronto Film Festival in September 2016 and has won various awards, including the FIPRESCI for Best Feature Film at the Los Cabos International Film Festival and the Colón de Plata for Best Director at the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. In her role as a writer, she co-wrote, along with director Michael Rowe, the feature film Leap Year (2010), winner of the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay. He also participated in the co-writing of La Jaula de Oro (Diego Quemada-Diez, 2013), a film that debuted in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and for which he won the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay together with Gibrán Ramírez. Portela and Quemada-Diez in 2014 and the nomination for the Fénix Award for Best Ibero-American Cinema in the category of Original Screenplay.

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Lucía Carreras

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All the Silence

All the Silence

Writer

Miriam teaches sign language in the mornings and is part of a professional theater production in the afternoons, maintaining a stable and passionate relationship with her girlfriend Lola. Although her life is very much connected to the routine of a deaf person, her world begins to crumble when she discovers that she is losing her hearing.

Producer

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Tamara and the Ladybug

Tamara and the Ladybug

Director

Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.

Tamara and the Ladybug

Tamara and the Ladybug

Screenplay

Tamara has Intellectual disability and a love for ladybugs. One day, she decides to take care of a baby but she forgets where she took him from, so she will get assistance from the old lady who sell quesadillas so they can return the baby to his parents.

Co-Writer

A delightful farce about a young European man's first encounter with his Mexican boyfriend's mother, whose affectionate hold over her son is at once warm, puzzling and problematic. Set in an elegant Mexican hacienda on the occasion of a wedding, the comedy hinges on personal misunderstandings as well as droll cultural differences.

Director

A delightful farce about a young European man's first encounter with his Mexican boyfriend's mother, whose affectionate hold over her son is at once warm, puzzling and problematic. Set in an elegant Mexican hacienda on the occasion of a wedding, the comedy hinges on personal misunderstandings as well as droll cultural differences.

Screenplay

Three generations of women who share a strange family tradition: all widowed in extraordinary circumstances; all give birth only to girls. This is the film based on the television series.

The Greatest House in the World

The Greatest House in the World

Director

Rocio, a Maya Mam girl, lives in the mountains with her mother, who is pregnant and her granny. Due to an early delivery from her mother, Rocio is stuck with caring for a herd of sheep, the first time she has done it on her own. Playing in the mountains she loses one of the sheep. Looking for it, she will lose the rest of the herd. In the midst of this tragedy, Rocio will have to face her innocence, conquer her fear of fog and learn that freedom entails responsibility. Nature will teach her that you do not have to defeat your fears, you just have to experience them. The Greatest House in the World is a story of children -which we all are- when facing fears, the unknown, the uncertain... the fog.

Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de Acero

Eddie Reynolds y los Ángeles de Acero

Woman in Bar 1

They are not wild and crazy anymore, or at least they think so. Now, thanks to an offer nobody can't refuse, they will try to recapture that old rock and roll magic and give themselves a second chance.

The Golden Dream

The Golden Dream

Screenplay

A group of Central-American teen-agers depart from the slums of Guatemala City escaping poverty and violence, towards the promised land of California.

Writer

Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. The present begins blending with the past, and the heroine withdraws into a world of her own. An intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend.

Director

Pilar loses the one thing in life that mattered to her and, from that moment on time stops. The present begins blending with the past, and the heroine withdraws into a world of her own. An intimate drama about the extreme emotions connected to the loss of someone on whom our lives depend.

Writer

Journalist Laura works at home, isolating herself from others. While she lies to her mother and brother, Raul, on the phone about having an active social life, Laura's days consist of gazing at her neighbors, eating canned food and going to clubs to bring home strangers. As the anniversary of her father's death draws near, Laura develops a relationship with Arturo, a charismatic actor who shares her taste for rough sex.