Writing
Gonzalo Benavente Secco
Known for
Writing
Credits
7 titles
Gonzalo Benavente Secco is a writer and director of film, theater, and television. His film "The Revolution and the Land" (2019) became the most-watched documentary in Peruvian cinema history, with 90,000 viewers (20 theaters). It was selected for the official competition at numerous international film festivals and won the 2019 APRECI Award for Best Documentary, among other accolades. In 2021, Penguin Random House published a memoir about the film's social and cultural impact ("The Imagined Revolution").
Known for
8.2The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
Revolution and Land
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Largo tiempo
2018
Short film.
Fierros
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Fico García
2021
6.2Manolo is an adolescent who dreams about making movies. It's 1968 and, among his friends, he spends his last year before entering university on the beach and listening rock music. But his life changes when he met a hippie young girl: Emma. Now, with the intention to win her, Manolo will start to make unlucky decitions.
Rocanrol 68
2013
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
8.2The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
Revolution and Land
2019
8.2The long fight over the land, which demolished the wall between master and serf, continues to divide Peru to this day. But the 1969 agrarian reform marked a before and after in the country's story - a profound change that Peruvian cinema reflected and encapsulated, creating great imagination we continue to discover today. 50 years after the social experiments of the revolution, we ask ourselves whether Peru really messed up or not with Juan Velasco Alvarado.
Revolution and Land
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Largo tiempo
2018
Short film.
Fierros
2007
6.2Manolo is an adolescent who dreams about making movies. It's 1968 and, among his friends, he spends his last year before entering university on the beach and listening rock music. But his life changes when he met a hippie young girl: Emma. Now, with the intention to win her, Manolo will start to make unlucky decitions.
Rocanrol 68
2013
6.2Manolo is an adolescent who dreams about making movies. It's 1968 and, among his friends, he spends his last year before entering university on the beach and listening rock music. But his life changes when he met a hippie young girl: Emma. Now, with the intention to win her, Manolo will start to make unlucky decitions.
Rocanrol 68
2013