
Directing
Melina León
Melina León is the director, co-writer, and producer of Song Without a Name (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2019), Peru’s submission for the Oscars. The film has premiered at over one hundred international film festivals and won more than forty awards, including Best Film at the Stockholm International Film Festival and the Montreal World Film Festival, Best Emerging Director at the Munich International Film Festival, Best Director at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and many more. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University, New York.
Acting credits
2.0Three popular radio personalities are fired and forced to rebuild their careers, while a group of prudish citizens attempt to keep them off the air permanently.
¡Qué Despelote! La Película
2010
The tender story of two children, Lubrielito and Lucía, who undertake the task of convincing people that Santa Claus exists.
Yo creo en Santa Claus
2004
Behind the camera
6.4Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
Song Without a Name
2020
6.4Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
Song Without a Name
2020
6.4Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
Song Without a Name
2020
A lonely Romanian janitor in NY spends a night waiting for a phone call from his family in Romania. As the night goes on, his memories assault him with increasing force until there is no distinction between his past and his present.
Emigrant
2008
NRLost dreams in New York. One lonely girl wants to do something she might regret.
Girl with a Walkman
2007
NRLost dreams in New York. One lonely girl wants to do something she might regret.
Girl with a Walkman
2007
It's Christmas night in Lima and José decides to steal a present for his little daughter.
A 45 for the month's expenses
2000
Julia, a young classical composer, finds out she is pregnant and hesitates to have it. Alone in a clinic she dreams with a possible future with her son.
Julia &
2005
Sick of being lonely, an exuberant dentist decides to "take care" of her handsome patient.
Sweet Poison
2003
NRIn late 80s Peru, a precocious, rebellious schoolgirl finds that the personal truly is political.
El Paraíso de Lili
2009
NRIn late 80s Peru, a precocious, rebellious schoolgirl finds that the personal truly is political.
El Paraíso de Lili
2009
An American family has been living in a war basement for ten years, fearing a fatal terrorist attack and growing paranoiac about the outside world. Michael, the youngest son, gets sick of the whole thing and decides to take measures.
Somewhere in America
2004
Short documentary.
Nabil Kanso in New York
2009
She creates beautiful art and objects from recycled materials and provides job opportunities for dozens of women. An entrepreneur, tenacious, and creative since childhood, she is Lola Apolinario. A woman who transforms. And this is her story.
Lola Apolinario: Emprender, iniciar
2018
Short documentary.
Tania Cerrón: El Camino del Bambú
2018
Short documentary.
Renata Flores: Cantar, resistir
2018
Short documentary.
Arena y Esteras
2016
Alberto Descalzi, a blind ex photographer, has confined himself to an isolated house, with his beautiful wife Alicia, who has devoted her new life to be her husband’s eyes. They receive a young visitor and Alberto will ask him to take Alicia’s definite picture.
Memory of my eyes
2004