Peru’s hard-hitting Oscar film hope divides opinion [Featured]

As Oscar fever hits Peru for perhaps the first time ever, Dan Collyns describes the building excitement, the controversy and the history behind the Peruvian contender for Best Foreign Language Film.

March 4, 2010 | Commentary/Opinion, Modern Peru, News

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Short Film: Machu Picchu Post

Machu Picchu Post is a short 3D film made at Supinfocom Arles in 2008 by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali.

This is the story of the unexpected meeting between a young Peruvian boy living with his llama and a pilot from the airmail flying above the boy’s house.

May 4, 2009 | History

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The Milk of Sorrow Joins Growing List of Works about Shining Path Years [Featured]

US Expat Barbara Drake talks about the win by La Teta Asustada of best film at the Berlin film festival last week and about other notable works covering a dark period of contemporary Peruvian history.

March 1, 2009 | Commentary/Opinion, Film, Modern Peru

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Watch: Secret of the Incas (1954)

“An Incan legend states that the Inca Empire was destroyed by the gods when a gold and jeweled starburst was stolen from the Temple of the Sun centuries ago, and that the ancient civilization will be reborn once the treasure is returned. Harry Steele (Charlton Heston), an American adventurer, is seeking the artefact, as is his nemesis Ed Morgan (Thomas Mitchell), along with Elena Antonescu (Nicole Maurey), an Iron Curtain refugee.” – Watch the full movie here.

September 9, 2008 | Modern Peru

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Not Pleased with Indiana Jones

“It´s hardly a secret that Hollywood films frequently misrepresent the details of “exotic” regions. Let´s face it, those films are made primarily for American audiences, and for most Americans the world consists of the US surrounded by a vast, nebulous mystery-land (sad, but true).”

June 2, 2008 | Commentary/Opinion

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Abimael Guzmán – The Movie!

Abimael Guzmán was the leader of the terrorist group The Shining Path, and group that brought misery, death and destruction to all of Peru – but Ayacucho in particular. An independent movie has now been made about the leader’s capture.

April 10, 2007 | Commentary/Opinion, Film, Modern Peru

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Piracy on the streets of Peru

Purchasing fake copies of branded goods is quite normal here. Sales of copies of video games and DVDs far outstrip sales of originals – to tell the truth, I haven’t actually noticed any originals on sale anywhere, although no, I haven’t looked for them.

August 13, 2006 | Commentary/Opinion, News

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