Lucrecia Martel

Born in 1966 in Salta in the North of Argentina,'Lucrecia Martel' (qv) settled down in Buenos Aires where she attended the ENERC (National Film School). She started by directing a few shorts among which _Dead King (1995)_ (qv), 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' (qv) has managed to make three very personal feature films, _La Ciénaga (2001)_ (qv), _The Holy Girl (2004)_ (qv) and _The Headless Woman (2008)_ (qv), in which she explores her favorite theme, troubled minds.::Guy Bellinger