José Carlos Huayhuaca

Directing

José Carlos Huayhuaca

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

Born in Cusco in 1949, he is a Peruvian film and television director, screenwriter, and writer. He also writes essays on aesthetic and cultural topics. For two years, he co-directed Butaca N, a television program dedicated to film criticism. In 1992, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1996, he received First Prize in the National Film Project Competition (Conacine). He is currently a research professor at the University of Lima and teaches film analysis at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Known for

Behind the camera

Cuentos inmorales poster
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Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

Cuentos inmorales

1978

Cuentos inmorales poster
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Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.

Cuentos inmorales

1978

Aventuras Prohibidas poster
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The film revolves around the transgressive behaviors of young people from Lima who suffer the contamination of the social environment in the hope of seeing the achievement of their small ambitions. Three episodes.

Aventuras Prohibidas

1980

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Musical, a black dance show, tap dancing and celebration as a product of a child's imagination.

Festejo

1983

Profession: Detective poster
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Alex Caballero is a private detective by correspondence. An interesting case of adultery and blackmail appears, which could make the business quick off. The investigation starts and it gets complicated until it lands in a shady presidential campaign, discovering an election fraud and crimes comitted by a politician connected to drug trafficking in order to win.

Profession: Detective

1986

Profession: Detective poster
8.0

Alex Caballero is a private detective by correspondence. An interesting case of adultery and blackmail appears, which could make the business quick off. The investigation starts and it gets complicated until it lands in a shady presidential campaign, discovering an election fraud and crimes comitted by a politician connected to drug trafficking in order to win.

Profession: Detective

1986

El Luchador poster
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Short film based on the short story "The Battler" by Ernest Hemingway.

El Luchador

2007

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Dynamics and order of the bricklayers carrying out a construction job with cement and bricks.

Los Constructores

1979

Los Conspiradores poster
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Based on the tenth chapter of the novel "Conversación en la Catedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa

Los Conspiradores

2008

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Monitoring the sporting work of Rose Mari Boeck in the South American Youth Pentathlon Championship.

Pentatlón

1976

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Preparation of a ballet performer, the meaning of dance in human life. Presentation of the choreography "Invasion" by the San Marcos University Ballet, directed by Vera Stastny.

Danza Moderna

1982

Perú: Cuando el Mundo Oscureció poster
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Feature film that shows us the festivities of the Virgen del Carmen in the Colca Valley, through the oral traditions narrated by the inhabitants of the Colca Valley, it shows religious syncretism and how the Spanish implanted their culture and in particular the Catholic religion; Well, this was the justification for the conquest. The evangelization campaigns aimed to destroy the indigenous imagination and convert all indigenous people to the Christian religion.

Perú: Cuando el Mundo Oscureció

1987

Un Sueño Realizado poster
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Short film based on the short story by Juan Carlos Onetti

Un Sueño Realizado

2004

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First documentary film by Jose Carlos Huayhuaca.

Ballet

1975

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Documentary photo about the life and work of the famous Cuzco photographer Martín Chambi (1891-1973), using his own work.

El Arte Fotográfico de Martín Chambi

1977

Un Drama Íntimo poster
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Based on the novel by Ricardo Palma.

Un Drama Íntimo

1995

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A love story between a sad clown and a cabaret dancer.

El Último Show

1982

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An old crook assaults a drunken young man at midnight; the ups and downs of life and the passage of time.

El Juego de la Vida

1983

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Childhood experience consulted in several children.

Escenas de la Infancia

1977

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Short film based on the shory story by Julio Ramón Ribeyro.

Las Botellas y Los Hombres

1982

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Works by Peruvian filmmaker José Carlos Huayhuaca, whose artistic vision explores the human experience through audiovisual storytelling, emotion, and reflection on reality. His work is distinguished by the sensitivity of his perspective and his contribution to the dialogue between cinema and literature.

Los hostigadores

2008

Un Matrimonio Respetable poster
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Based on the short story "La Corista" by Anton Chekhov.

Un Matrimonio Respetable

2005

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Based on the short story "Continuidad en los Parques" by Julio Cortázar. A film buff steals a movie and gets into trouble with reality.

El Enigma de la Pantalla

1985

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The Peruvian woman in the new society of the country led by the revolutionary government of the armed forces.

Nueva Imagen de la Mujer Peruana

1977