Lucrecia Martel

Lucrecia Martel is an Argentine filmmaker widely regarded as one of the greatest directors working in world cinema today. Her Salta Trilogy -- La Cienaga (2001), The Holy Girl (2004), and The Headless Woman (2008) -- established her as a singular voice in Latin American cinema, known for her precise, disorienting approach to class, gender, and sensory experience. Her film Zama (2017) was Argentina's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. She is openly lesbian, and came out to her family before La Cienaga's 2001 premiere out of concern over how they might react to the film's implicit queerness; her mother told her she had known since Martel was seven. She is in a relationship with singer Julieta Laso, former lead vocalist of the Fernandez Fierro Orchestra, and has spoken about the relationship between her queerness and her filmmaking practice.