Lucía Carreras

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 codirected with Ana V Bojórquez the MexicoGuatemala coproduction 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 MexicoSpain coproduction 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 IberoAmerican Film Festival In her role as a writer she cowrote 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 cowriting of La Jaula de Oro Diego QuemadaDiez 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 QuemadaDiez in 2014 and the nomination for the Fénix Award for Best IberoAmerican Cinema in the category of Original Screenplay