Claudia Llosa

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Claudia Llosa at the Guadalajara International Film Festival (2009)

Claudia Llosa (born November 15, 1976 in Lima ) is a Peruvian film director, screenwriter and producer.

biography

Claudia Llosa studied communication science in her hometown . Claudia Llosa moved to Spain in the late 1990s. From 1998 to 2001 she studied film and television at the Escuela TAI art school in Madrid , specializing in screenwriting. At the end of her training, Llosa began working on the film script Madeinusa , her first feature film, and shortly afterwards moved to Barcelona , where she found work in the advertising industry. In Barcelona, ​​she finished work on the script, which is set in a remote Andean village and took part in the 2003 competition for the New Latin American Film Festival in Havana . The story of a young and attractive mayor's daughter who makes the acquaintance of a city dweller during the traditional and decadent celebrations of Holy Week earned Llosa the prize for the best unpublished screenplay.

The award was followed by film grants, including stays in New York, at the Fundación Carolina in Madrid and a visit to the Screenwriter's Lab of the Sundance Film Festival . In 2006, Llosa completed her first work Madeinusa , in which, in addition to directing, she also co-produced with her own company Vela . Her debut work, starring amateur actors, won critical acclaim and won numerous festival prizes , including the FIPRESCI Prize of the Rotterdam International Film Festival and was selected as the official Peruvian entry for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the 2007 Academy Awards. The German trade press was just as positive about Madeinusa . The film-dienst emphasized the special humor and the ironic play with stereotypes in the film, which is somewhere between melodrama and almost documentary staging, while the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the Peruvian-Spanish production for image power and ideas, with which the film is the current South American cinema would tower above the head.

In 2009 Llosa completed her second feature film Eine Perle Ewigkeit , which was invited to the competition at the 59th Berlin Film Festival . For the first time in the history of the film festival, a Peruvian film competed for the Golden Bear and was ultimately awarded the main prize by the jury. In the drama, the director was once again responsible for the script and production and entrusted her heroine from Madeinusa , Magaly Solier , to the lead role. The story alludes to the decades-long struggle between the Maoist guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso and the state power over former President Alberto Fujimori and tells the story of a young woman whose mother was raped and who therefore suffers from severe trauma herself. In addition to other international festival prizes, Llosas Film was the first Peruvian cinema production to receive an Oscar nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film .

In 2009 Llosa worked on the documentary television series 50 años de , in the context of which she directed the episode Tradiciones . Loxoro followed in 2011 , in which she tells of a mother's search for her daughter in the transsexual milieu of Peru. The short film received an invitation to the competition at the Berlinale 2012 and received the Teddy Award for the best short film.

Claudia Llosa is the niece of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the film director and producer Luis Llosa .

Filmography

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 2009: Golden Bear and FIPRESCI Prize for One Pearl Eternity
  • 2012: Teddy Award for Loxoro (Best Short Film)

Cartagena Film Festival

  • 2007: Special mention for Madeinusa

Cine Ceará - National Cinema Festival

  • 2006: Best Screenplay for Madeinusa

International Festival of New Latin American Films

  • 2009: Gran Coral for a pearl eternity

Lima Latin American Film Festival

  • 2006: 2nd prize in the category Best First Screenplay and CONACINE Prize for Madeinusa
  • 2009: Best Peruvian Film and CONACINE Prize for A Pearl Eternity

Mar del Plata Film Festival

  • 2006: Roberto Tato Miller Prize for Best Latin American Feature Film for Madeinusa

Montréal Festival of New Cinema

  • 2009: Quebec Film Critics' Award for A Pearl Eternity

Muestra de Cine Mexicano en Guadalajara

  • 2009: Best film for Eine Perle Ewigkeit

Rotterdam International Film Festival

  • 2006: FIPRESCI Prize for Madeinusa

Sundance Film Festival

  • 2006: nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Madeinusa

Web links

Commons : Claudia Llosa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Data sheet from La teta asustada at berlinale.de (PDF file, German, English, French; 138 kB)
  2. ↑ cf. Film review by Wolfgang M. Hamdorf in film-dienst 23/2006
  3. ↑ cf. Madeinusa . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 11, 2006, No. 263, p. 42
  4. ↑ cf. Kuhlbrodt, Detlef: The rich who steal the songs of the poor . In: the daily newspaper , February 13, 2009, p. 26
  5. ↑ Official press release ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berlinale.de, January 19, 2012 (accessed January 21, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de
personal data
SURNAME Llosa, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian film director, screenwriter and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima