Lucía Vassallo
Lucía Vassallo is an Argentine director, screenwriter and producer, born in Buenos Aires in 1976. She graduated from ENERC as a director of photography in the late 1990s. She worked in advertising in Barcelona, where she lived for ten years, before returning to her country. After making a few medium-length films for television, she directed her first feature documentary La cárcel del fin del mundo (2013). This was followed by the documentary Línea 137, about the hotline that was created in Argentina to attend to victims of domestic violence 24 hours a day, in five cities of the country. That same year, she presented the documentary Transoceánicas, which she co-directed with Spanish filmmaker Meritxell Colell Aparicio. In 2021, she released Cadáver Exquisito, her first fiction film.
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Phone Line 137
In Argentina, the victims of femicide amount to one woman every 23 hours. This documentary portrays the life of four social workers and psychologists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to assist, help and accompany different women who suffer domestic, sexual, and family violence.
Phone Line 137
In Argentina, the victims of femicide amount to one woman every 23 hours. This documentary portrays the life of four social workers and psychologists who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, to assist, help and accompany different women who suffer domestic, sexual, and family violence.
