Pilar Roca

Production

Pilar Roca

Known for

Production

Credits

6 titles

Pilar Roca began her filmmaking career during the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces, producing a series of short documentaries for SINAMOS. From that point on, she developed her career in collaboration with her partner, Federico García Hurtado. Following the typical gendered division of labor in Latin American political cinema, she worked as a researcher and producer for the films directed by her partner (Seguí 2019). This cinema, produced in a precarious and militant manner, was practiced as a way of life, where the personal, professional, and political dimensions merged. The Roca-García tandem produced fundamental films of Peruvian cinema such as Kuntur Wachana (1977) and Tupac …

Known for

El forastero poster
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about Daniel Estrada Pérez.

Qosqoruna

2006

No artwork available
NR

Documentary.

Frontón: Historia de una Masacre

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No artwork available
NR

The film, after showing some articles from the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, promulgated in Algiers in 1974, presents Nicolás Maduro at an OAS session held in Panama, responding to attacks from the United States Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.

Venezuela País en Trance

2013

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain poster
NR

Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain

2002

No artwork available
NR

Years have passed. Lori Berenson with the necessary distance that passage of time gives, she makes a thoughtful and serene judgment of her participation in MRTA and of her passage through different peruvian prisons and now current condition of mother.

Lori: Testimonio de Parte

2016

Behind the camera

El forastero poster
6.0

A stranger arrives in the country from a distant galaxy. He lands somewhere in the Andes near the small town of Paucartambo in Cusco. He comes from an annihilated planet and has been sent in search of a habitable world where his civilization can settle. When the stranger enters into contact with the village people he gradually regains his human condition. He finds love and sex with a prostitute, who is waiting for miracle, he finds a strange mixture of goodness and greed in the village mayor and his family and with the indigenous poet and shaman he grows closer to the bounty, beauty and unfathomable mystery of nature.

El forastero

2002

No artwork available
NR

Documentary about Daniel Estrada Pérez.

Qosqoruna

2006

No artwork available
NR

Documentary.

Frontón: Historia de una Masacre

—

No artwork available
NR

The film, after showing some articles from the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, promulgated in Algiers in 1974, presents Nicolás Maduro at an OAS session held in Panama, responding to attacks from the United States Secretary of State, Ms. Condoleezza Rice.

Venezuela País en Trance

2013

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain poster
NR

Documentary about the force of the scissors dance, its historical importance and cultural resistance through the body and its movements.

Dancers of the Sacred Mountain

2002

No artwork available
NR

Years have passed. Lori Berenson with the necessary distance that passage of time gives, she makes a thoughtful and serene judgment of her participation in MRTA and of her passage through different peruvian prisons and now current condition of mother.

Lori: Testimonio de Parte

2016