Directora nacida en 1949. Su primer filme, el semidocumental Que bom te ver viva (1988), reveló en ella a una cineasta que se dedicaría a temas políticos y femeninos.
Mientras estudiaba Economía formó parte de un movimiento estudiantil. Con el decreto de diciembre de 1968 entró a formar parte del grupo MR-8. Encarcelada en 1971, fue torturada y permaneció en prisión durante tres años y medio. En 1979 viajó a Nicaragua, donde realizó el documental O pequeno exército louco, que concluyó cinco años más tarde, sobre la revolución sandinista.
Reveló sus preocupaciones políticas en Doces poderes (1996), donde analiza la campañas electorales desde el punto de vista del marketing que generan. En 2000 realizó Brava gente brasileira, sobre las relaciones entre colonizadores e indios en el interior de Brasil. En 2003 filmó Quase dois irmãos, un drama político sobre los conflictos entre la clase media y las favelas en tres épocas y situaciones diferentes, filme que le valió el premio al mejor director en el festival de Río. Al año siguiente estrenó el documental O olhar extranjero.
Lúcia Murat (1949-) with her first film, the semi-documentary film Que bom te ver viva (1988), proved that she was a filmmaker devoted to reflect political and women related subject matters.
While she studied Economics she was part of the student’s movement. As a consequence of the decree of December 1968, he entered the guerrilla group MR-8. She was imprisoned in 1971, was tortured and stay in prison for three years and a half. In 1979 she traveled to Nicaragua, where she made the documentary about the Sandinist revolution O pequeno exército louco, which she finished five years later.
She revealed his political concerns in Doces Poderes (1996), in which she analyzed the election campains according to the marketing they generate. In 2000 she made Brava Gente Brasileira, about the relation between colonizers and natives in the inner regions of Brazil. In 2003, she filmed Quase dois irmãos, a political drama about the conflicts between the middle class and the favelas (slums) in three different times and situations, a film that won the award to the Best director at Rio Film Festival. The next year it was released her documentary O olhar extranjero.
In 2007, was released her feature film Maré, Nossa História de Amor, a kind of musical updated version of Romeo and Juliet in the Rio's favelas (slums) with Brazilian hip-hop music and coreographies. The film was successfully screened at international film festivals and awarded for Best Music at Havana International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, and Best Director at Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) in 2008.
“Nuestro objetivo final es nada menos que lograr la integración del cine latinoamericano.
Así de simple, y así de desmesurado”.
