Lucia Puenzo She is a well-known director and writer of films and scripts of Argentine origin, famous for touching topics of strong social and intellectual impact.
Lucía Puenzo was born on November 28, 1973 in the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She is the daughter of the also famous filmmaker Luis Puenzo, so all her life since she was little she lived surrounded by the arts. His brothers also make movies.
He spent his teenage years studying in high school with the firm idea of following in his father’s footsteps, but trying from a new point of view.
Since he was a director in every sense, she tried to differentiate herself and honor his name by taking the path of writing.
In the 1992, while studying the career of Letters on the Buenos Aires’ University he thought that the world of literature had little freedom if it was not applied in a certain way to something visual.
Since then, she began to develop several scripts and projects that in the not too distant future came to stand out in Argentine society.
Writing for her is an addiction, such that if she doesn’t write at least a few lines in a notebook she feels like she is in abstinence, wanting to run away.
From 2001 He began working on Argentine television with a documentary in which he investigated people’s reality. He himself was called “Everyday Stories”.
After this he had a participation as a scriptwriter in the horror and suspense strip “Final time”In which they acted Fernan Mirás Y Guillermo Francella among others.
Several programs of the moment carried their unique brand in the scripts, such as “Malandras“,”Disputes” Y “Black sun”. All these productions were released in the 2003.
Fortunately, television and critical success accompanied her, making possible the realization of her first directed script “The Whore and the Whale” in the 2004.
Once again, the critics had a very good impression with his work, so it was not long before he was offered to participate in new innovative projects in the republic.
“Cold blood”Was a mini series where a group of 30 students from a private university arrives in a town where strange deaths begin to take place.
The horror format had rarely been exploited in its land, so when it received its new injection of creativity the critics could not help but praise it again.
In the 2005 I work in “Men of Honor”A series produced by Adrian Suar, which worked very well, but fell short of the genius of his past ideas.
What happened is that at that time, Lucía had millions of projects in mind, including a novel that touched on very controversial topics.
Finally in the 2006 He launched “The Fish Boy”, Where he tells the story of a young lesbian teenager who falls in love with the Paraguayan woman who works in her house.
Puenzo has no qualms about bringing aggressive and extremely explicit stories to the media, such as prostitution, drugs or homosexual sex in his works.
His most recent work was the highly acclaimed “XXY“, starring Carolina pelleritti Y Ricardo Darin.
This is about the complicated life of a 15-year-old girl who suffers from a disease rarely seen: she is a hermaphrodite. The plot revolves around the innumerable number of social and psychological problems that both she and her parents must face.
Puenzo is currently a professor at the Buenos Aires’ University and works for a good number of projects including “What the Other Has”.