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Date of Birth
14 December 1966, Salta, Argentina

Mini Biography

Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,Lucrecia Martel settled down in Buenos Aires where she studied communication sciences. She started by directing a few shorts among which Dead King (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.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Bellinger

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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006


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