Lucía Lamanna is a Venezuelan film editor, documentary filmmaker, sound designer, screenwriter, and educator. Trained in Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, she began her career as a camera operator and editor working in Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm productions. Her editing credits include the documentaries Yo Soy el Otro, Venezuela, February 27, and 1992: The Un-covering (To Play or Be Played), as well as the feature film Maisanta. As a director, she has explored sensory documentary, visual arts, and social memory in works such as Vargas: The Traces of Water and Fro… Lucía Lamanna is a Venezuelan film editor, documentary filmmaker, sound designer, screenwriter, and educator. Trained in Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, she began her career as a camera operator and editor working in Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm productions. Her editing credits include the documentaries Yo Soy el Otro, Venezuela, February 27, and 1992: The Un-covering (To Play or Be Played), as well as the feature film Maisanta. As a director, she has explored sensory documentary, visual arts, and social memory in works such as Vargas: The Traces of Water and From Piraeus to Gaza: Evocation I. Lamanna co-founded the film training institute COTRAIN in 1986 with filmmaker Liliane Blaser and has played a major role in audiovisual education in Venezuela. A founding member of several national film organizations, she has taught editing and documentary filmmaking in Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Italy, and developed the influential methodology “Composition of Editing,” focused on the creative, rhythmic, and dramaturgical dimensions of film editing. She has received multiple awards and honors for her contributions to filmmaking and film education.More
