LUCÍA CARRERAS, is a director and screenwriter who debuted with the feature film “Nos vemos papá” (Missing Dad) a film that had its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary Festival. She co-directed the Mexico-Guatemala co-production “La Casa más grande del mundo” (the greatest house in the world), that had its world premiere in 2015 and was part of the official selection of the Berlinale obtaining the Special Jury Prize at the Festival de Huelva among other awards. She wrote and directed her third feature “Tamara y La Catarina” (Tamara & the ladybug) which had its world premiere as part of the official selection of the Toronto Film Festival in 2016; “Tamara y La Catarina”, to date, has won several awards, including the FIPRESCI prize for best feature film at the Los Cabos International Film Festival and the Colón de Plata for Best Direction at the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva.

In her role as a writer, Carreras co-wrote with the director Michael Rowe the feature film Leap Year (Michael Rowe, 2010), a film that won the Golden Camera at the Cannes Film Festival and earned them the best original script nomination to the Ariel Awards. Lucía also co-wrote with the director Diego Quemada-Diez “La Jaula de Oro” (The Golden Dream), a film that debuted in the Un Certain Regard selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and for which Carreras, along and Quemada-Diez , obtained in 2014 the Ariel for Best Original Screenplay and the nomination for the Phoenix Award for the best of Ibero-American Cinema in the Original Screenplay category.

In 2017 she was again nominated for the Ariel for best screenplay adapted for her collaboration in the script of the movie Las Aparicio. Carreras, over the years, has received several recognitions as a scriptwriter by CONACULTA, IMCINE and IBERMEDIA.

Lucia lives in Mexico City.