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Lucía Carreras

Lucía Carreras

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Biography

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.

Known For

Leap Year
6.4

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.

Leap Year

2010
All the Silence
7.0

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.

All the Silence

2023
The Golden Dream
6.9

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

The Golden Dream

2013
Las Aparicio
5.8

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.

Las Aparicio

2016
Nudo Mixteco
7.0

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.

Nudo Mixteco

2021
Missing Dad
5.6

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.

Missing Dad

2012
Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels
5.6

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.

Eddie Reynolds and The Iron Angels

2014
Tamara and the Ladybug
5.2

Tamara, a woman with a mental disability, tries to return a borrowed baby to his parents, but she can't remember where she found him.

Tamara and the Ladybug

2016
Posthumous
N/A

Dolores wakes up in Luis's house with no memory of how she got there, and Luis is equally puzzled. As they investigate, they uncover the shocking truth that Dolores died 50 years ago. Something magical has brought her to the present, compelling them to discover the deeper bond they share beyond blood.

Posthumous

2026
The Greatest House in the World
5.7

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.

The Greatest House in the World

2015
Baba's Wedding
N/A

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.

Baba's Wedding

2016