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Alejandro Legaspi

1948 (78) • Directing

Born in Uruguay in 1948. In 1967 he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts. The following year he joined the Cinematheque del Tercer Mundo and collaborated as a cameraman on the documentary: The Flag We Raise and as an editor in A measles epidemic. In 1974 he emigrated to Peru where he formed the production company Marcha and devoted himself to making documentaries, among which the following stood out: And it remains silent and Hit that drawer. In 1979, in Nicaragua, he participated in Victoria de un pueblo en armas (documentary) and in the fiction feature Insurrección by Peter Lilienthal. He was also an advisor to the Nicaraguan Film Institute. In 1982 -with Stefan Kaspar, Fernando Espinoza, María Barea, Fernando Barreto- he formed the Grupo Chaski film collective in Lima. He worked as a cameraman, editor and director of documentaries such as Miss Universe in Peru, Peru ni leche ni gloria, Paths of liberation, Encounter of little men, Margot the circus, Crisanto el haitiano and co-directed feature films such as Gregorio (1984) and Juliana ( 1989). In the 90s he directed documentaries and fiction short films for the production company Verde Luna. Later, he directed the documentary Tiempo de memoria (2005), Dreams far away (2007), Otto Brun's The Haphazard Path of Faith (2012) and the fictional feature film The Last News (2014); among others. At the same time, he has served as a professor at the Catholic University of Peru and the Charles Chaplin Institute in courses on: filmmaking, journalistic documentary and photography direction. He, likewise, has been on two occasions a jury at the Havana Film Festival and a jury at the contest for film projects in Colombia, Uruguay and Peru.

Known For

Gregorio

70%

Director

1985

Juliana

88%

Director

1988

The Uprising

60%

Camera Supervisor

1980

The Last News

55%

Director

2015

Time of memory

60%

Writer

2005

Miss Universe in Peru

90%

Director

1982

La Bandera que Levantamos

100%

Director of Photography

1971

Iquitos, la primera ciudad en caer

Editor

2024

Iquitos, la primera ciudad en caer

Editor

2024

The Last News

55%

Director

2015

The Last News

55%

Writer

2015

The Sax Country

Cinematography

2007

Sueños lejanos

Director

2007

Sueños lejanos

Writer

2007

Time of memory

60%

Writer

2005

Time of memory

60%

Director

2005

Loco Lucho

Director of Photography

1998

Crisanto, el haitiano

Director

1989

Juliana

88%

Director

1988

Peru: Ni leche ni gloria

Director

1987

Meeting of little men

Director

1987

Margot, la del circo

Director

1987

Cota y los Niños

Director of Photography

1986

Paths of liberation

Cinematography

1985

Paths of liberation

Director

1985

Paths of liberation

Editor

1985

Gregorio

70%

Director

1985

Gregorio

70%

Cinematography

1985

Miss Universe in Peru

90%

Director

1982

The Disobedient Carnation

Director of Photography

1982

Cruz Roja

Director

1981

The Uprising

60%

Camera Supervisor

1980

Y se queda en silencio

Director

1978

Dale Golpe a ese Cajón

Director

1978

Caballitos de Totora

Director

1977

El cine de cada día

Cinematography

1974

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