
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
3.7Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.
Cuentos inmorales
1978
NRThe 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
Musical, a black dance show, tap dancing and celebration as a product of a child's imagination.
Festejo
1983
8.0Alex 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
NRShort film based on the short story "The Battler" by Ernest Hemingway.
El Luchador
2007
Dynamics and order of the bricklayers carrying out a construction job with cement and bricks.
Los Constructores
1979
Behind the camera
3.7Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.
Cuentos inmorales
1978
3.7Four stories taking place in Lima, Peru in the 70s.
Cuentos inmorales
1978
NRThe 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
Musical, a black dance show, tap dancing and celebration as a product of a child's imagination.
Festejo
1983
8.0Alex 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
8.0Alex 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
NRShort film based on the short story "The Battler" by Ernest Hemingway.
El Luchador
2007
Dynamics and order of the bricklayers carrying out a construction job with cement and bricks.
Los Constructores
1979
NRBased on the tenth chapter of the novel "Conversación en la Catedral" by Mario Vargas Llosa
Los Conspiradores
2008
Monitoring the sporting work of Rose Mari Boeck in the South American Youth Pentathlon Championship.
Pentatlón
1976
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
NRFeature 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
NRShort film based on the short story by Juan Carlos Onetti
Un Sueño Realizado
2004
First documentary film by Jose Carlos Huayhuaca.
Ballet
1975
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
NRBased on the novel by Ricardo Palma.
Un Drama Íntimo
1995
A love story between a sad clown and a cabaret dancer.
El Último Show
1982
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
Childhood experience consulted in several children.
Escenas de la Infancia
1977
Short film based on the shory story by Julio Ramón Ribeyro.
Las Botellas y Los Hombres
1982
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
NRBased on the short story "La Corista" by Anton Chekhov.
Un Matrimonio Respetable
2005
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
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
