"Filmmaker" magazine wrote, "[Martel's] debut feature "La Ciénaga" premiered at Sundance, won the Alfred Bauer Award at Berlin, and received rave reviews wherever it played. Martel's 2004 follow-up, "The Holy Girl", about the sexual and religious passions of two Argentinian teenage girls, premiered at Cannes and consolidated Martel's reputation as one of the finest emerging talents in world cinema.`name="ND" /&gt;