Lucía Garibaldi

Lucía Garibaldi
Born	1986 (age 38–39) Santiago de Chile
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer

Lucía Garibaldi (born 1986) is a film director from Uruguay.[1]

Lucía Garibaldi studied at the Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes [es] in 2006–2010. She emerged as a director with her debut feature The Sharks premiering at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and winning the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award. The film also won the Work in Progress Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival,[2][3][4] and the Grand Prix Coup de Cœur at the Toulouse Latin Film Festival.[5]

She participated in Berlinale Talents 2012 Buenos Aires edition.[6]

In 2018, she started writing the script of La Última Reina (The Last Queen). The upcoming film has already won several development grants: the Montevideo Socio Audiovisual film funding scheme in the category Fiction Feature in Development, ICAU's Film Promotion Fund for developing a fiction feature, an invitation at Ibermedia's Course on Film Project Development.[7][8][9] The film was selected to participate in the 9th Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum at the 68th San Sebastian Film Festival.[10]

In 2023, her next project A Bright Future won a €35,000 development grant from Berlinale World Cinema Fund.[11]

Filmography

• 2009 – Colchones
• 2012 – Mojarra
• 2016 – Rotos y Descosidos
• 2019 – The Sharks (Los tiburones).[12]
• In production – The Last Queen (La Última Reina)
• In production – Look at me, Roberto, Look at me (Mírame Roberto, mírame)

References

1. "Lucía Garibaldi 23 Festival de Cine de Lima". Film Festival de Lima. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
2. "Six Female Directors We Are Watching". Cinema Attic. 2020-03-08. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
3. Lodge, Guy (2020-04-14). "'The Sharks': Film Review". Variety. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
4. Hopewell, John (2019-08-06). "San Sebastian: Horizontes Latinos Selects 'The Moneychanger,' 'Spider,' 'Chicuarotes'". Variety. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
5. Lemercier, Fabien (2019-04-01). "The Sharks is crowned the winner of Cinélatino". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
6. "Lucía Garibaldi". Berlinale talents. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
7. "Lucía Garibaldi". off camera. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
8. Dale, Martin (2019-04-09). "Uruguay's Lucia Garibaldi Prepares 'The Last Queen'". Variety. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
9. Hopewell, John (2020-07-23). "Cimarron Fires Up New Movies, First Premium TV Series (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
10. "Uruguay is once again in the news in the world of the seventh art". Uruguay Audiovisual. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
11. "Berlinale World Cinema Fund: Current Funding Recommendations for Production and Distribution". Berlinale Talents. 2023-08-07. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
12. "Lucía Garibaldi". El Observador. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2024-04-08.