hi there!

I’m Lucrecia.

I’m an award winning filmmaker, photographer, and journalist born in Caracas, Venezuela, and
based in Brussels, Belgium.

I have lived in 6 countries since I left Caracas during the pandemic. I’m fluent in Spanish, Catalan and English, and I’m learning Italian and French.

My story is crossed by the crisis in my home country and the migration of 8 million Venezuelans, including me. Therefore, I have specialised in human rights, police violence, children's rights and women's rights.

I have worked and collaborated with media outlets, such as Efecto Cocuyo, Cinco8, Distintas Latitudes, Underground Periodismo; as well as different non-governmental organisations, both locally in Venezuela and at an international level.

stories that matter

filmmaker

I have directed four short films (including documentary and fiction) exploring memory, identity and human experience.
Two of my shorts have been recognised at several international film festivals.

Photographer

I started making photos when I was a teenager, and photography has been part of my way of observing the world ever since. Over the years, I have worked as a documentary photographer on different projects, created professional portraits, and had the privilege of photographing wildlife in its natural habitat and powerful landscapes around the world.

I’m a communications professional with extensive experience in journalism, filmmaking, photography, digital communications strategies, content creation, and impactful hope-based storytelling, particularly in the human rights sector.

journalist

My journalism is rooted in long-form reporting, investigation and human rights storytelling. I have reported on violence, migration, gender-based violence, housing, censorship and the everyday impact of systemic abuses across Latin America and Europe.
My work combines testimony, data, verification and narrative care to document harm without reducing people’s dignity to it.

digital communications & Design

I develop digital campaigns, social media content and visual communications as part of broader advocacy strategies, translating complex human rights issues into clear, accessible and engaging narratives to deliver impact. My work combines strategy, editorial judgement, design and visual consistency to create content that informs, mobilises, builds empathy and supports public advocacy.

AWARDS & recognitions

Hasta Encontrarles: buscador de personas desaparecidas, localizadas y atendidas tras el terremoto 24J en Venezuela

  • Grant secured thanks to Free Press Unlimited.

Bien acompañadas

  • Funded by Cross-Border Collaboration Grant of the Collaborative and Investigative Journalism Initiative (CIJI), coordinated by Free Press Unlimited.

¿Dónde vamos a vivir?

  • Finalist at the Inter American Press Association 2024 Excellence in Journalism Awards in the Solutions Journalism category.

Invisibile

  • Best Short Film Award – Pigneto Film Festival (Italy, 2021).

  • Audience Award “James Irish Whiskey” – Pigneto Film Festival (Italy, 2021).

  • Best Original Score Award – Pigneto Film Festival (Italy, 2021).

  • Best Acting Performance Award to Marta Meneghetti in Invisibile – Pigneto Film Festival (Italy, 2021).

  • Out of Competition Selection – Alice nella Città, Rome (Italy, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Rome Film Festival (Italy, 2021).

COLATERAL: Cada vida cuenta

  • Best Documentary – IV Short Film Competition of the National Film School (Venezuela, 2019).

  • National Winner – International Les Tres Festival (Venezuela, 2020).

  • Audience Award – Zeitimpuls ShortFilm Festival (Austria, 2021).

  • Distribution Award Winner – Daroca & Prision Film Festival (Spain, 2021)

  • National Winner – El Grito International Film Festival (Venezuela/Colombia, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Prague International Monthly Film Festival (Czech Republic, 2021).

  • Official Selection – International Social Change Film Festival Chicago (US, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Maracay International Film Festival (Venezuela, 2021).

  • Official Selection – List-off Sessions September 2021.

  • Official Selection – Africa Human Rights Film Festival (South Africa, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chão (Brazil, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Festival Internacional de Cine Austral (Argentina, 2021).

  • Official Selection – Documenta 2021 (Latin America, 2021).

  • Official Selection – International Film Festival of Guadeloupe (Guadeloupe, 2022).

  • Official Selection – Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Caracas (Venezuela, 2022)

Education

  • Global Campus of Human Rights, Italy & Slovenia (2020 – 2021)

    Thesis: Cinema as a tool towards symbolic reparation and non-repetition: A children’s rights perspective. Conducted an in- depth exploration of how visual narratives can foster early reconciliation for children affected by violence and conflict.

  • Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela (2015 – 2019).

    Specialisation in Journalism and Filmmaking.

    Thesis on the psychological impact of police violence in Caracas, highlighting systemic inequality & the state's failure to uphold human rights.

    Awarded an honourable mention for its contribution to understanding and documenting human rights issues through narrative storytelling.

  • Several 20 hours workshops on photography, including color, documentarism, Lightroom, among others.