Claudia Llosa

15.11.1976, Lima, Peru

 

Director
Llosa is a Peruvian director, producer and screenwriter. She studied at the Peruvian-British Newton College in Lima and then graduated with a degree in communications from the Lima University. She is the famous writer Mario Vargas Llosa and director Luis Llosa’s niece. In the late 1990s she moved to Madrid and from 1998 to 2001 studied at the film academy Escuela de Artes y Cine TAI. After graduation she moved to Barcelona and worked in advertising. She made her feature film debut in 2006 with the drama Madeinusa. Then she made The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada, 2009), which won the Golden Bear and the FIPRESCI Award in Berlin in 2009 and was selected as the Peruvian representative for the Oscars in the category Best Foreign Film.

Filmography


Films by this director

The Milk of Sorrow

(La teta asustada, 2009)

Directed by: Claudia Llosa
PHOTOGRAPHY: Natasha Braier
Synopsis:

Maoist group Sendero Luminoso, which terrorized Peru in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, raped women, whose terror was then transferred to their children through breastfeeding and thus took away their souls. Young Fausta suffers from that syndrome, the so-called “milk of sorrow”. She is a timid and introverted girl who has to cope with her fears after her mother passes away. The film won 11 awards at festivals and was nominated for an Oscar.

color, digital, 95 min
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