Writing

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 co-directed with Ana V. Bojórquez the Mexico-Guatemala co-production 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 Mexico-Spain co-production 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 Ibero-American Film Festival. In her role as a writer, she co-wrote, 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 co-writing of La Jaula de Oro (Diego Quemada-Diez, 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 Quemada-Diez in 2014 and the nomination for the Fénix Award for Best Ibero-American Cinema in the category of Original Screenplay.