Albertina Carri

Albertina Carri

Albertina Carri (b. Buenos Aires, 1973) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and actress.

Biography

Carri was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. She was orphaned after her parents' abduction by the National Reorganization Process on February 24, 1977.[1] She directed her first film in 2000, No quiero volver a casa,[2] a drama starring Martín Churba, Manuel Callau and Margara Alonso. Her 2003 docu-drama Los rubios garnered critical acclaim, winning her the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema Audience Award and Special Mention, and the Clarin Award for Best Documentary in 2003.

Openly lesbian and married to Marta Dillon, several of her films have LGBT themes such as Barbie también puede eStar triste (2001) and Géminis (2005).[3][4] In 2008 she directed the drama La rabia (Anger), starring Analía Couceyro, Javier Lorenzo, and Víctor Hugo Carrizo. The film is stated to be a dark exploration into "children's emotional processing of their parents' oppressively violent and sexually charged environment" in the Argentine countryside.[5][6]

Filmography

Director

Writer

References

  1. ↑ "Albertina Carri: "La ausencia es un agujero negro"" (in Spanish). La Nacion. 23 April 2003. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Aguilar, Gonzalo (15 March 2011). New Argentine Film: Other Worlds. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-230-11942-0.
  3. ↑ Richards, Keith John (2011). Themes in Latin American Cinema: A Critical Survey. McFarland. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-7864-3538-8.
  4. ↑ Mendible, Myra (3 June 2010). From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture. University of Texas Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-292-77849-8.
  5. ↑ Rocha, Carolina; Seminet, Georgia (25 July 2012). Representing History, Class, and Gender in Spain and Latin America: Children and Adolescents in Film. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-137-03087-0.
  6. ↑ Splendors of Latin Cinema. ABC-CLIO. 19 November 2009. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-313-34978-2.

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