María Alché is a director, scriptwriter and
actress, who starred in "The Holy Girl" by Lucrecia Martel (2004). Her first feature
film "A Family Submerged" premiered in
Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno Festival
2018 and won the Horizons Award at San
Sebastián International Film Festival 2018,
Best Screenplay at Lima Latin American Film
Festival 2019, Ingmar Bergman International
Debut Award at Gothenburg Film Festival
2019, Critics’ Award at Barcelona D’A Film
Festival 2019 and Best Director at FICUNAM
International Cinema Festival 2019, among
others.