Because there are things you never forget

Naples, Italy. 1950. Four friends are playing soccer out on the street when their ball is accidentally kicked into the evil old lady´s yard. They´ll never play with their ball again…and for that the revenge will be deadly…

He graduated from the University of Buenos Aires as a sound and image designer. He worked as an editor and then later as a director on advertising spots. In the last three years, Lucas Figueroa has won over 450 international awards at film festivals for his Trilogía de muerte (“Death Trilogy”), a series of three fiction short films. In 2011 he received the Guinness Record for directing and producing the most award-winning short film ever made, Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan, which earned him over 300 awards alone. In 2012 he shot his first feature length film Viral with his own production company LMF Films.

GUINESS WORLD RECORD for the most awarded film in the world. Among others:

Best International Short Film – Fargo Fantastic Film Festival (United States)
Best Director – Gwinnett Center International Film Festival (United States)
Best Short Film, Special Jury Prize, Best Art Director – FESDECURT , Festival
Internacional de Cortometrajes de dénia (Spain)
Best International Short Film – Rassegna Internazionale di Cortometraggi Napolincorto
(Italy)
Best Short Film – Festival Internacional de Cortos de Córdoba (Argentina)
Best Short Film – Festival de Todometrajes Rurales Arica Nativa (Chile) ?Audience Award
– Trash Film Festival (Croatia)
Second Prize for the Best International Short Film – Festival Internacional de Cortomtrajes
Fecoven (Venezuela)
Best Short Film – CINEFOOT, International Football Film Festival (Brazil)
Best Short Film, Audience Award – Rassegna di Cortometraggi Cortincentro (Italy) Best
Short Film – Duoro Film Harvest (Portugal)
Best Short, Best Director, Best Cinematography – Shaan-e-Awadh International FIlm
Festival (India)
Special Jury Mention – New Vision Internacional Film Festival (Ukraine)
Best Short – Freenetworld International Film Festival (Serbia)
Best Intenational Short – Ballinamore International Film Festival (Ireland)
Best Short , Audience Award – Sharpcuts Indie Film and Music Festival (Canada)
Second Prize for the Best Short Film – Festival Internacional de Cine de Montería
(Colombia)
Best Short Film – Little Ripper Film Festival (Australia)
Best Short Film – Bermuda International Film Festival (Bermuda)
Best International Short Film – New Strand Film Festival (United States)
Best Fiction Short Film – L’ecran Cevenol, Festival International du Film Video de Vebron
(France)
Third Prize to the Best Short Film – Cinemaforum, International Independent Feature Film
Festival (Poland)
Third Prize to the Best Short Film – Internationales Filmwochenende Wurzburg (Germany)
Best Short Film – Brussels International Independent Film Festival (Belgium)
First Prize to the Best Short Film – Festival de Cine de Pasto (Colombia)
Best International Short Film, Best Direction, Best Editing – MCM Filmfest (Netherlands)
Audience Award – K3: International ShortFilmFestival (Austria)
Best International Short Film – Festival de Cortometrajes Hayah (Panama)
Best Short Film – International Film Festival Noah’s Ark (Russia)
Audience Award, Best Director – Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Valle de Bravo en
Corto (Mexico)
Best Director – Cinefantasy, Festival Curta Fantástico (Brazil)
Best Short FIlm – BIAFF, Batumi International Art-huse Film Festival (Georgia)
Best Screenplay – Ozu Film Festival (Italy)
Golden Leo Award for Best Film – Gold Lion Film Festival, Africa’s Short Film Festival
(Swaziland)
Gold Medal to the Best Short Film – Brno Sixteen (Czech Republic)
Audience Award – Certamen de Documental y Vídeo Secuencia Cero (Spain)
Second Prize to the Best Narrative Short – Silver City Film Festival (United States)