Peruvian Cinema (in the age of transnational film finance)

Image of Fausta/Magaly Solier, in La teta asustada/The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Spain/Peru, 2009) - see a review of this film here

Film Studies For Free's author attended a very stimulating seminar yesterday given by Sarah Barrow of Anglia Ruskin University, entitled 'Transnational Film Financing in the Hispanic World: A Peruvian Case Study'.

Barrow presented a fascinating overview of Peruvian cinema in the last five years, and, in particular, of the efforts made by an emerging set of filmmakers to take advantage of new international funding and support opportunities. These include the regional Ibermedia programme, Rotterdam Film Festival’s Hubert Bals project, the Berlin World Cinema Fund (WCF), and the Cannes screenwriting residency awards for developing writer-director talent from developing economies. Barrow focused on the career trajectories of two Peruvian writer-directors: Josué Méndez (Días de Santiago [2004]; Dioses [2008]) and Claudia Llosa (Madeinusa [2006]; La teta asustada/The Milk of Sorrow [2009], Winner of the Golden Bear Award at the Berlinale 2009 and 2009 Foreign-Language Oscar Nominee).

FSFF wanted to follow up on Barrow's valuable seminar with some online resources for researchers working on Peruvian cinema as well as on transnational film finance. Below, then, are some links to high-quality, openly-accessible, scholarly work on these topics, most of them in English. See also FSFF's earlier post on Studies of 'Third Cinema' and anti-Eurocentric film culture

• Buzz Alexander, 'Interview with Pancho Adrienzén: Radical film in Peru today', from Jump Cut, no. 28, April 1983, pp. 27-30

• Sarah Barrow, 'Images of Peru: A National Cinema in Crisis', from Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and Nationhood. Ed. Stephanie Dennison and Lisa Shaw. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005: 39-58

• Scott L. Baugh & Michael Schoenecke, 'Special Issue Introduction: Historical Reflection/Cinematic Projections of Latin American Film', Film & History, Vol. 34.1 (2004)

• Jon Beasley-Murray, “Subalternity, Betrayal, and Flight: Three Recent Films from Peru”, essay draft (2007). See also Beasley-Murray's blog: Posthegemony

• Michael Chanan, 'The economic condition of cinema in Latin America', from Third World Affairs 1985, London: Third World Foundation, pp.379-389

• Tamara Falicov, 'Programa Ibermedia: Co-Production and the Cultural Politics of Constructing an Ibero-American Audiovisual Space', Spectator, Vol. 27, Issue 2, 2007, Special Issue on Media Co-Productions, 21-30

• Francisco da Gama, 'Filming the war with Sendero', Jump Cut, No. 49, spring 2007

• Gabriela Martínez, 'New Readings of Past and Recent Latin American Cinema', A Contra corriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America [Review of Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison (Editors), Latin American Cinema: Essays on Modernity, Gender and National Identity. (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2005)], Vol. 4, No. 1, Fall 2006, 163-174

• Gabriela Martínez, 'Cinema law in Latin America:Brazil, Peru and Colombia ', Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, No. 50, spring 2008

• Sophia A. McClennen, 'The theory and practice of the Peruvian Grupo Chaski', from Jump Cut, No. 50, spring 2008

• Jeffrey Middents, Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru (UPNE, 2009: Google Books Limited Preview) Also see Middents' blog
  

• Violeta Núñez, 'PERUVIAN CINEMA : An ongoing battle', Cinema Journal/El ojo que piensa, 2007
  

• Miriam Ross, 'Social Engagement, Empowerment and Change - Grupo Chaski’s Microcines: Engaging the Spectator', eSharp, Issue 11, 2008

• Libia Villazana, [Audio file of soundtrack of] 'Latin America in Co-production' (46 minute long documentary directed by Villazana, UK/Peru 2007, partly in English, partly in Spanish), followed by a panel discussion at the Tate Modern Film Synergies event (November 25, 2007) added Nov 2, 2009

• Libia Villazana, 'De una política cultural a una cultura politizada: La República Bolivariana de Venezuela y su revolución cultural en el sector audiovisual', ZiF: Center for Interdisciplinary Research, 2007 added Nov 2, 2009

• Libia Villazana, 'Hacia un cine peruano de coproducción Entrevista con Francisco “Pancho” Lombardi', Contratexto digital. Año 4, N° 5, 2007