Claudia Llosa

Claudia Llosa
Guadalajara Film Festival
Born	Claudia Llosa Bueno November 15, 1976 (1976-11-15) (age 35) Lima,  Peru
Occupation	Film Director

Claudia Llosa (born 15 November 1976)^[1] is a Peruvian film director, writer and producer.

Life and career

She was born in Lima, studied in Newton College and received a degree in communication studies in the University of Lima. She is the niece of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the film director Luis Llosa. At the end of the 1990s she moved to Madrid, Spain. From 1998 to 2001 she studied at the film academy Escuela TAI. At the end of her studies she started working on the script for Madeinusa. She moved to Barcelona working in the advertising industry. Madeinusa won the prize for the best unpublished script at the 2003 Havana Film Festival.

In 2009 Llosa finished her second film The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada) which was shortlisted for the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. It was the first Peruvian film nominated for the Golden Bear award, and won the main award.^[2]

On February 2, 2010 Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film Category.^[3]

Filmography

• 2006: Madeinusa
• 2009: The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada)

References

1. ^ La teta asustada at berlinale.de (PDF 138 KB)
2. ^ Kuhlbrodt, Detlef: Die Reichen, die die Lieder der Armen stehlen. In: die tageszeitung, 13. Februar 2009, S. 26
3. ^ Oscar Nominations: Foreign Film Category

External links

• Interview zu Madeinusa bei cinemawithoutborders.com (englisch)
• Interview zu Madeinusa bei kinothusis.ch (PDF-Datei, deutsch; 25,2 KB)
• Claudia Llosa at the Internet Movie Database
• The Magic Realism of Peruvian Claudia Llosa's 'La Teta Asustada' and 'Madeinusa.'

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Name	Llosa, Claudia
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Date of birth	15 November 1976
Place of birth	Lima,
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