Directing
Álvaro Velarde
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Directing
Credits
14 titles
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics, Álvaro Velarde won a Ford Foundation scholarship to pursue a master's degree in film in New York. While there, he worked in the film department of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and completed three short films, which later won awards in Lima. His first feature film, "El Destino No Tiene Favoritos" (Destiny Has No Favorites), won more than 10 international awards, including Best Film at the Móstoles Comedy Festival in Spain. The film was also screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the Cinema du Monde section. In 2004, it represented Peru at the Goya Awards in Spain. The production of his second feature film, "Como quien no quiere la co…
Known for
4.9A film about the typical candidates for the presidency of Peru.
El Candidato
2016
6.0Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.
Destiny Has No Favorites
2003
NRAt a bus stop, five people from different social backgrounds arrive and sit down on the bench, revealing each character's prejudices and preferences toward the others
Roces
1999
7.0A woman who lives in a lighthouse takes action against her childhood sweetheart who runs a beach hotel.
That Thing You Love
2013
5.8A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.
El acuarelista
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
98 Thompson
1995
Behind the camera
4.9A film about the typical candidates for the presidency of Peru.
El Candidato
2016
4.9A film about the typical candidates for the presidency of Peru.
El Candidato
2016
4.9A film about the typical candidates for the presidency of Peru.
El Candidato
2016
6.0Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.
Destiny Has No Favorites
2003
6.0Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.
Destiny Has No Favorites
2003
6.0Ana is a rich, repressed housewife. Much to her annoyance, her husband rents out their garden to a soap-opera production, and goes away on a business trip. In her dull solitude, Ana follows the shooting from her window, and soon becomes just as engrossed in the soap-opera as her two maids. When accidentally mistaken for an actress, she ends up being cast for a role -to the great dismay of the other actresses and her maids. The set soon becomes dominated by gossiping, intrigues and blackmail, while the boundary between her real world and the make believe world of soap-operas begins to blur. Ana finds herself entangled in a real life soap-opera all of her own when she tries to get everything back to normal before her husbands comes home.
Destiny Has No Favorites
2003
NRAt a bus stop, five people from different social backgrounds arrive and sit down on the bench, revealing each character's prejudices and preferences toward the others
Roces
1999
NRAt a bus stop, five people from different social backgrounds arrive and sit down on the bench, revealing each character's prejudices and preferences toward the others
Roces
1999
7.0A woman who lives in a lighthouse takes action against her childhood sweetheart who runs a beach hotel.
That Thing You Love
2013
7.0A woman who lives in a lighthouse takes action against her childhood sweetheart who runs a beach hotel.
That Thing You Love
2013
5.8A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.
El acuarelista
2008
NRNo synopsis available yet.
98 Thompson
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
98 Thompson
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
C. Lloyd: Un cuento de crimen y castigo
1996