In Search of an Audience: Cinema of Northern Peru, the Case of Omar Forero

Barrow, Sarah (2021) In Search of an Audience: Cinema of Northern Peru, the Case of Omar Forero. In: Cine peruano de inicios del siglo XXI. Dinamismo e incertidumbre. Universidad de Lima, Lima, pp. 121-141. ISBN 978-9972-45-578-0

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Abstract

One of the distinctive features of twenty-first century Peruvian cinema is the greater visibility of films made outside Lima. Small but significant numbers have secured festival screenings, won awards and critical praise. Omar Forero, from the northern city of Trujillo, is one such example of success: his third feature, Chicama, won five awards at the Lima Film Festival in 2012, including “Best Peruvian film” as voted by the national film critics association. His subsequent feature project Casos complejos [Complex Cases] (2018) received a further funding prize and a premiere screening at the twenty second Lima Film Festival. This chapter discusses Forero as an auteur with a global mindset, and reviews his position as disruptor of the centre-versus-periphery, Lima-versus-regional, dichotomy of filmmaking in Peru.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Media, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Women of Influence - Community Participation in Peru Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2025 17:30
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 02:27
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98756
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