Lucía Ferreyra

Lucía Ferreyra is from Rafaela, in Santa Fe province, and moved to Buenos Aires at twenty-three to work in television, where she spent seven years writing for a long-running afternoon serial. She says the serial taught her structure and nothing else. She shot La Siesta on her parents' street across four January afternoons with her father's car and her niece. Río de la Plata took three years, most of them spent getting permission to film aboard a working dredger, and was made with the port authority's survey teams as advisers and in some cases as extras. She writes on the estuary side of the city and walks the costanera when a scene will not come. She cuts with Bruno Cattaneo and shoots with Nadine Zorrilla. Ines Salgado came down from Mexico City for two weeks to consult on the edit.