Directing
Patrick Cabanillas
Born
2003-08-30 (23)
Place of birth
Iquitos, Peru
Known for
Directing
Credits
2 titles
Patrick Cabanillas was born on August 30, 2003, in Iquitos, Peru, in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. He lived there until early 2023, when he moved to Lima to study Audiovisual Communications at UPC, completing his degree in mid-2026. His interest in filmmaking began in childhood, staging small scenes and shooting videos with his toys long before he understood it as a craft. Raised on the stories his grandmother and great-grandmother told him, Amazonian mythology has shaped his imagination for as long as he can remember, and it continues to drive his pull toward the fantastical and the oneiric — cinema that makes tangible the worlds and situations that reality alone cannot hold. Ikaro Rojo…
Known for
Behind the camera
NRA photographer disillusioned with her everyday life gets stranded in a remote Amazonian village. As she uncovers her host's hidden past with a river legend, she's drawn deeper into a world where myth and reality blur. Torn between the life she knows and the seductive pull of a mythical pink river dolphin, she must decide who — and what — she's willing to become.
Ikaro Rojo
2026
NRA photographer disillusioned with her everyday life gets stranded in a remote Amazonian village. As she uncovers her host's hidden past with a river legend, she's drawn deeper into a world where myth and reality blur. Torn between the life she knows and the seductive pull of a mythical pink river dolphin, she must decide who — and what — she's willing to become.
Ikaro Rojo
2026