# Laura Citarella

Laura Citarella (born 1981) is an Argentine film director and producer. She has been noted as an emerging voice of the "New Argentine Cinema movement" or el Nuevo Cine Argentino. She is a core producer at the indie production company El Pampero Cine, and produced La flor, which at 868 minutes, currently holds the record for the longest running Argentine film in history.

## Early life and education

Citarella was born in 1981 in La Plata, Argentina. She completed high school at Carlos N. Vergara in La Plata, Argentina and went on to attend the Universidad del Cine, from which she graduated with a degree in film directing in 2004.

## Career
### Teaching

Aside from making films, Citarella also teaches at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), where runs a thesis workshop focused on scriptwriting.

### La mujer de los perros (2015)

Citarella and Verónica Llinás co-directed La mujer de los perros (Dog Lady), which garnered attention from international film festivals. Notably, it was an official selection for the Rotterdam Film Festival for 2015 and won Best Actress at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema.

### In production

Citarella is now working on a sequel to her 2011 film Ostende, titled Trenque Lauquen.

## Filmography

References:

### Feature films directed

| Year | Title |
| 2009 | Historias breves 5 |
| 2011 | Ostende |
| 2015 | La mujer de los perros |
| 2022 | Trenque Lauquen |

### Short films directed

| Year | Title |
| 2002 | Canción para Ana |
| 2008 | Historias breves V: Tres juntos |
| 2013 | Yendo de la cama al living |

### Complete filmography

| Year | Title | Position |
| 1990 | Un elefante en banda | Actress |
| 2001 | La muerte de Ricardo Lee (Short) | Producer |
| 2002 | Canción para Ana (Short Documentary) | Editor, screenwriter |
| 2002 | Yakuza (Short) | Producer |
| 2005 | Love (Part One) | Assistant Director |
| 2005 | Jews in Space | Assistant Director |
| 2005 | Mi primera salida (Short) | Assistant Director |
| 2008 | Historias breves 5: Tres juntos (Short) | Composer, executive producer, screenwriter, |
| 2008 | Historias extraordinarias (Extraordinary Stories) | Actress, Assistant Director, Producer |
| 2009 | Historias breves 5 | Composer, director, executive producer, screenwriter |
| 2009 | Castro | Producer |
| 2010 | El escarabajo de oro | Production Coordinator |
| 2010 | Leisure | Producer |
| 2011 | The Student | Assistant Director, Production Coordinator |
| 2011 | Ostende | Director, screenwriter |
| 2011 | Tres fábulas de Villa Ocampo (Documentary short) | Producer |
| 2013 | The Parrot and the Swan | Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Goldbug | Producer |
| 2014 | Ocio | Production Coordinator |
| 2015 | La mujer de los perros | Director, executive producer, screenwriter |
| 2018 | Ai Weiwei en Buenos Aires (Documentary short) | Producer |
| 2018 | La flor | Producer |
| 2018 | La flor: segunda parte | Actress, producer |
| 2018 | La flor: tercera parte | Producer |

## Awards and nominations

| Film | Awards | Nominations |
| Ostende (2011) | Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema: Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina (ACCA) Award | |
| La mujer de los perros (2015) | BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2015 - International Competition: Best Actress | Athens International Film Festival: Golden Athena for Best Picture Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema: Best Film Hamburg Film Festival: Young Talent Award Rotterdam International Film Festival: Tiger Award Rotterdam International Film Festival: Lions Film Award |