Laura Citarella (born 1981) is an Argentine film director and producer. She has been noted as an emerging voice of the "New Argentine Cinema movement" or el Nuevo Cine Argentino. She is a core producer at the indie production company El Pampero Cine, and produced

La flor ''La Flor'' (English: ''The Flower'') is a 2018 Argentine film written and directed by Mariano Llinás. With a length of 808 minutes excluding intermissions, it is the longest film in the history of Argentine cinema. The film is a joint projec ...

, which at 868 minutes, currently holds the record for the longest running Argentine film in history.

Early life and education

Citarella was born in 1981 in

La Plata La Plata () is the capital city of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. According to the , it has a population of 654,324 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 787,294 inhabitants. It is located 9 kilometers (6 miles) inland from th ...

, Argentina. She completed high school at Carlos N. Vergara in La Plata, Argentina and went on to attend the Universidad del Cine, from which she graduated with a degree in film directing in 2004.

Career

Teaching

Aside from making films, Citarella also teaches at the

Universidad Nacional de La Plata The La Plata National University ( es, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is one of the most important Argentine national universities and the biggest one situated in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province. It has over 90, ...

(UNLP), where runs a thesis workshop focused on scriptwriting.

La mujer de los perros (2015)

Citarella and

Verónica Llinás Verónica Llinás (born September 23, 1960) is an Argentine film, television and theatre actress. She is the daughter of the writer Julio Llinás and the painter Martha Peluffo and sister of Sebastián Llinás and the film director Mariano Lliná ...

co-directed ''La mujer de los perros'' (''Dog Lady''), which garnered attention from international film festivals. Notably, it was an official selection for the

Rotterdam Film Festival The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...

for 2015 and won Best Actress at the

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI, es, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international festival of independent films organized each year in the month of April, in the city of ...

In production

Citarella is now working on a sequel to her 2011 film ''Ostende'', titled ''Trenque Lauquen''.

Filmography

Feature films directed

Short films directed

Complete filmography

Awards and nominations

External links

References

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