Avalada por una extensa y prestigiosa trayectoria en la industria cinematográfica, en sus múltiples roles de Productora, Productora Ejecutiva, Jefa de Producción y Directora, es ahora una de las figuras clave en el florecimiento del llamado "Nuevo Cine Argentino", aportando su experiencia y su apoyo al crecimiento de talentosos y reconocidos directores jóvenes. Comenzó su actividad en la industria cinematográfica en 1965 dirigiendo dos cortometrajes: El bombero está triste y llora y Un día...
Entre 1968 y 1977 participa como Jefa de Producción en numerosos largometrajes. Desde 1978 ha producido los siguientes films: La Isla y Los Miedos, de Alejandro Doria; Momentos, Señora de Nadie, Camila, Miss Mary y Yo, la peor de todas, de Maria Luisa Bemberg; Verano del Potro de André Melancon; Fútbol Argentino de Víctor Dinenzon (documental); 6 Mujeres y La Ciénaga de Lucrecia Martel, Clara Zappettini, Laura Búa, Gabriela Schmid (documentales); Mundo Grúa de Pablo Trapero; Bolivia y Un oso rojo de Adrián Caetano; Tan de repente de Diego Lerman. En 1993 dirige y produce Un Muro de Silencio. Desde 1986 hasta 2001 fue presidenta de la Cámara Argentina de la Industria Cinematográfica.
Una de sus últimas producciones fue Cordero de Dios, ópera prima de la argentina Lucía Cedrón.
Élida Stantic (1942-), commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine cinema producer, screenplay writer, and director.
Stantic is one of the most important producers working in the "New Argentine Cinema," responsible for the debut films of some of the most critically well regarded new Argentinian filmmakers such as Lucrecia Martel, Pablo Trapero, and Israel Adrián Caetano.
She has been working in the Argentine cinema since she was hired as an assistant director for the film Diario de campamento (1965). Stantic then began making short films in the mid 1960s, but then changed her focus to advertising. She remained active in Argentine cinema via the "Cine Liberación," an underground production and distribution collective that secretly showed films that would have otherwise been banned in Argentina by the military government.
During the politically tumultuous 1970s in Argentina, Stantic worked on over a dozen films including Alejandro Doria's La isla (1978), which was the first Argentine film to be a box-office hit during the dictatorship.
During the 1980s she established with Maria Luisa Bemberg the GEA Cinematográfica, a production company. Then, later, Lita Stantic Productions.
When the "New Argentine Cinema" began in the late 1990s, she has produced films which have been widely acclaimed, films such as A Red Bear, La Ciénaga, Bolivia, The Holy Girl and others.