Oscar Catacora, director of the film Wiñaypacha, died at the age of 34 on November 26 due to a sudden health problem in the middle of filming a new feature film in the province of El Collao. The news released by the production company Cine Aymara put the national cinema in mourning, so now we present you a review of who he was, his life and film career.
Long before the filmmaker became known, he released the medium-length film The Pimp’s Path (2007) and Revenge of Super Cholo (2013). In that last year he won a grant of 400,000 soles granted by the Ministry of Culture of Peru in the National Film Competition. It is thanks to this that he was able to create Wiñaypacha, the first Peruvian feature film shot entirely in Aymara.
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The success of the film was so great that it was presented at the Oscars for Best Foreign Film and at the Goya Awards for Best Ibero-American Film. Four years after its premiere in Peruvian cinemas, it reached the Netflix streaming platform.
While his debut was taking the streaming world by storm, Oscar Catacora He was already preparing his second film to tell us the story of an indigenous rebellion that took place in southern Peru in 1780. It was expected to be presented in the celebration of the country’s bicentennial, but now it is unknown if someone else will take over the direction of the project.
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What is the future of the second film?
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