Lucía Puenzo in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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) is an Argentinian

Argentina

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 author and film director. She is the daughter of Luis Puenzo

Luis Puenzo

Luis Adalberto Puenzo is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States.-Biography:...

.
She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires

University of Buenos Aires

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 followed by the National Film Institute (INCAA).

In 2007 Puenzo directed her first film XXY

XXY (film)

XXY is a 2007 Argentine film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky...

. The film won several awards including three awards at the 2008 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards and the 2008 Goya award for best for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film.

Works

Novels

• El niño pez (2004)
• Nueve minutos (2005)
• La maldición de Jacinta Pichimahuida (2007)

Screenplay

• 2004: La Puta y la Ballena

Director

• 2007: XXY
  XXY (film)
  XXY is a 2007 Argentine film written and directed by Lucía Puenzo. The film stars Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Inés Efron and Martín Piroyansky...
  
  
• 2009: El nino pez

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