With a long list of movies under her belt, this Argentinean director, born in 1973, has situated herself among some of the most important Latin American directors of her generation. She left behind her literature studies after only a few years in order to study to become a screenplay writer at the FUC (Fundación Universidad del Cine) in Buenos Aires where she began her filmmaking career.  She released her first feature-length film, No quiero volver a casa (2000), at age 24 which was selected for various international film festivals.  

 

She later produced various critically aclaimed animated shorts such as Aurora (2001) and Barbie también puede estar triste (2002), the latter a porn fiction which took the Best Foreign Award at the New York Mix Festival. She would later incorporate more animation into her full-length films. 

 

Her career really took off with her second full-length film and impactful autobiographical documtentary/drama titled The Blonds (2003) which also confronts the history of Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983). As the daughter of members of the Guerrilla group Montoneros, Albertina Carri was orphaned at the age of 4 after witnessing the kidnapping and disappearing of her parents in 1977.

 

Her past has undoubtedly impacted the way she views the world and how she portrays Argentina through her films. This influence can be seen in her fifth film, Anger (2008), due to the fact that Carri was forced to move to the countryside with her aunt and uncle for the majority of her childhood. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas J. Shalloe

Arizona State University

 

 

Name: Albertina Carri