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Carla Ortiz was born on 2 December 1978 in Bolivia. She is an actress and producer, known for Curse of the Mayans (2017), Voice of Syria and The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez (2012).- Actress
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Verona Pooth was born on 30 April 1968 in La Paz, Bolivia. She is an actress and writer, known for Driven (2001), 2001: A Space Travesty (2000) and Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flügel... (1999). She has been married to Franjo Pooth since 18 May 2004. They have two children. She was previously married to Dieter Bohlen.- Actress
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She graduated from the Televisa's Centro de Educación Artistica (CEA). In Boston, she studied Marketing which she combined with some acting. Her very first opportunity to work on television was in the soap opera "Corazones al límite", playing Malka. She has also participated in plays in the USA, and in soap operas such as "Bajo las rienda del amor", "Niña de mi corazón", "Ni contigo ni sin ti". In 2011 Ximena plays Isabela, a cleptomaniac woman in the soap opera "Ni contigo ni sin ti", melodramatic play produced by Mapat. In 2012, she has a first role in the TV Series INFAMES by Argos TV.- Actor
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Maurice Barthélémy was born on 23 May 1969 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is an actor and writer, known for Pas très normales activités (2013), Papa (2005) and Casablanca Driver (2004).- Editor
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Natalia López was born on 21 February 1980 in La Paz, Bolivia. She is an editor and director, known for Robe of Gems (2022), Heli (2013) and Our Time (2018). She is married to Carlos Reygadas.- Actor
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Fernando Arze Echalar was born on 27 September 1972 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is an actor and writer, known for The Goalkeeper (2018), Los de Abajo (2022) and Lo Que Nos Queda (2022).- Actor
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Born in Cochabamba - Bolivia, Javier's earlier film appearances were in: Javier Teran's "Etreum" and Claudia Siles' "Can't do it alone", as well as in comedy films like Guery Sandoval's "The Pocholo and his Marida". Later, he achieved substantial roles in short films like "Double or nothing" from Diego Padilla and Miguel Urrutia's "Elmira -Sara's suicides". Then, played a deranged husband in Telemundo's famous court show "Caso Cerrado". He was the lead character of the short film "Distancia" directed by T.S. Meeks, film that was selected by the prestigious " Palm Springs international Short Fest" & "Santa Barbara International Film Festival," where his performance earned an excellent reception from critics and general public. Suarez also stared various other short films, and won the Best Actor Award in the 48 Hour Film Project Cochabamba 2016. In 2017 he won the Best Supporting Actor Award in the Filmapalooza Festival 48HFP Global Awards -Seattle. He also took home the Best Actor Award in the First IberoAmerican 48 HFP Festival in 2018. He is now working in theatre and films in Los Angeles, California.- Actress
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Paola Menacho is an Afro-Latina Actor and Director originally from Santa Cruz, Bolivia and based in Los Angeles. Paola grew up near the Amazon jungle with a passionate love of nature.
At age 3 she booked the lead in her preschool play and soon after that, the lead in a small hometown independent film. Her mother owned a dance school and Paola grew up dancing salsa, merengue, cumbia, bachata and samba. She majored in Theater and Communications at the University of Santa Cruz and joined Larca Theatre Group. She launched her television career as reporter for Expo Cruz, a well-known Bolivian TV Entertainment magazine. It was as a reporter that Menacho covered Bolivia's most elite annual bash, Carnivale, where heads of Bolivia's entertainment industry noticed Menacho's charismatic passion and fierce energy. As a result, Menacho was offered her own TV show, Carnivale with Paola, on MTV Latin America.
Three years later, Paola moved north to America. During her first three years in the States, Paola performed in local theater plays such as Hello Dolly and A Christmas Carol. She was featured in music videos by Gwen Stefani, Outkast, Sisqo, Master P, The Westside Connection and many more and landed her first national commercial for Coffee Mate followed by 12+ additional national commercials.
Paola went on to land one of her first U.S. film roles as a supporting role in the feature film The Spot, which appeared in theaters Winter 2007 and held a lead role in The Black Mariachi, which premiered at Los Angeles' African American Film Marketplace. Menacho soon achieved a lead role in ABC Entertainment Television's Actors Showcase, in which 18 actors of 700 candidates were selected. She also was selected for the SAG Diversity Showcase where she performed a pilot presentation written by T.C. Gunter, mentored by Friends creator Marta Kaufman. Her early achievements in the U.S. led to her eventual lead role in the major Netflix film, Ocean's Rising, and her first television guest star on Everybody Hates Chris.
Paola holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Directing from the Los Angeles Film School. In 2020, she established her film production company, PM Film.
Outgoing, a little tough, and pretty much an optimist, Paola loves to hike, grow her own vegetables, and believes in spreading real, honest, and supportive love. Volunteering with The Alexandria Home, she helps provide safe, healthy resources for women who are homeless, abused, or in critical condition. Privately owned, the Home allows women to stay as long as they need, giving them food and shelter alongside their children with the freedom to obtain education along a positive and progressive path.
Paola resides in Los Angeles with her family.- Writer
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María Renée Prudencio was born on 28 October 1974 in La Paz, Bolivia. She is a writer and actress, known for The Last Call (2013), The Eternal Feminine (2017) and Club Sandwich (2013).- Cinematographer
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Alejandro Loayza Grisi is a Bolivian filmmaker. His debut feature film, "Utama," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Dramatic Competition.
Alejandro began his artistic career in still photography. Later, he transitioned to the moving image as a director of photography. Attracted by the stories that can be told through the creation of images, he ventured into screenwriting and film directing.- Actor
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Jaime Escalante was born to two Bolivian schoolteachers who taught in a small Aymara Indian village. After 9 years of teaching in Bolivia, Escalante moved to the United States in 1964, and worked as a busboy, a cook, and an electronics factory technician. He attended the Universidad de Puerto Rico, later moving to California and studying at Pasadena City College, earning a degree in Electronics.
In 1976 he began teaching at Garfield High School, in east Los Angeles, California, where drugs, gangs and violence were facts of daily life. Despite these obstacles, Escalante was able to motivate a small group of students to take the AP calculus exam. In 1979, two of his students passed the A.P. test. In 1980, seven of his students passed the test. A year later, 14 students passed the test. In 1982, so many students passed that the Educational Testing Service invalidated the scores, believing that the students had cheated. Most of the pupils retook the test and passed, making Escalante a national hero. In recognition of his incredible achievements, Escalante was awarded the United States Presidential Medal and the Andres Bello award by the Organization of American States. By 1987, Garfield High's A.P. calculus program had outpaced Beverly High's.
In 1991, he left Garfield High, citing faculty politics and petty jealousies. He taught in Sacramento for several years, but later retired to his native Bolivia. He is living in his wife's hometown and teaching part time at the local university. He returns to the United States frequently to visit his children.- Producer
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Jac Avila, the co-founder of Pachamama Films, is the director, producer and editor of the critically acclaimed film Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare and director, writer, producer, and actor of the celebrated mini-series El Hombre de La Luna and The Death of St Eulalia, a feature film, released in 2005, for which he also did the principal photography.
He directed Vientos Negros and Misiones, both of which he co-produced, shot and edited. He also produced, did the principal photography and edited the feature film Nocturnia, (directed by Erik Antoinne).
He has worked with international film organizations like The National Film Board of Canada, ICAIC (the Cuban film institute), Magyar Films in Hungary, Ki Films from France, Channel Four of England and most recently with National Geographic in the production of Outbreak: The Machupo Virus, shot on location in Beni, Bolivia.
Born in La Paz, Bolivia, into a family of artists that includes Dutch painter Jan Vermeer and re-known Bolivian poet Antonio Avila Jimenez, Jac left for New York where he studied film and photography while supporting himself working in photography, advertising and a brief stint at CBS. He also hosted and produced radio programs at WHBI y WBAI.
Beginning in 1980, he organized a series of film presentations, festivals and seminars with New York University, and toured the University circuit, lecturing about Latin American cinema and politics at Cornell U., Harvard, Wisconsin U, NYU and others.
In 1981 he joined the independent film group, Mountain Top Films, to work on various productions, starting with its inaugural feature length film, Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare, an internationally award-winning film he and Vanyoska Gee produced, directed and edited. During this time he also produced and edited the experimental short, The Word is Vroom Vroom, a collaboration with Israeli conceptual artist, Uri Katzestein, and Huaqueando, a film dealing with the sacking of archaeological treasures in Peru. From 1988 to 1991, he toured the festival circuit with Krik? Krak!. At the Cannes film festival in 1988 he met and had a series of long conversations with legendary writer Graham Greene, author of The Comedians, amongst many of his already classics of contemporary literature. Mr Greene assisted to the screening of Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare, and later wrote about it saying: "A remarkably insightful, original, ... compassionate picture of the eternal Haiti..."
At the Festival International des Films d'Amiens in France, La Gazette Du Festival commented: "...filmmakers like Denis Hooper (Easy Rider), Monti Hellman (The Shooting) or Jac Avila ( Krik? Krak!) are the stars of a festival like Amiens (...) They use the best of film and the power of images with sincerity and simplicity".
During his journeys Jac wrote a number of scripts he is now developing for production: La Passion de Maricelli (about a Cuban woman confronting the harsh force controlling her world of priests, politicians and back-broken slaves: her father), Pachamama (about a Bolivian wedding that unleashes a family's suppressed demons) and others.
In Hungary, he produced and directed the documentary Szabadsag Szerelem, shot in Hungary during the fall of Communism.
With the intention of producing one of his scripts on film, he returned to Bolivia where he organized and lead a series of workshops in acting for the camera and film production. Sponsored by the Department of Culture of the Mayor of La Paz, they were considered pivotal to the careers of aspiring actors and filmmakers. Out of his hundreds of students, many went on to win awards and begin professional careers in audiovisual communication.
As a result of the publicity generated by the workshops, he was invited to develop and teach a film program, still running now, at the nation's most prestigious institute of higher education, the Universidad Catolica Boliviana.
His career then focused on directing and producing the miniseries, El Hombre de la Luna, which was broadcast in Bolivian TV and later on Canal Sur, a Spanish cable network in the US. He also produced the documentaries Incarracay, Biosfera: 10 años de labor, Dia de la Tierra, Aguaratimi, anthropological and ecological documentaries commissioned by organizations such as UNESCO, the Mayor's Office for the Environment of La Paz and the Bolivian Biosphere Institute, among others.
As a modest way to encourage production in his country, he backed, with equipment, resources and training a series of videos for novice filmmakers. In an unusual turn of events, his student crew of one of them, Maestria Pasional, won the prestigious Amalia Gallardo Awards in Bolivia for Best Actor, Best Cinematography and Best sound.
His new-found life in Bolivia led him to write three additional stories: Kilya, la Hija del Inca (about a man who wakes, after being hit by a truck, in the land of his Inca ancestors, where long-silent gods dwell), Paloma (the story of a vampire that flees 15th century Europe to settle in the largest city of the new world, Potosi) and El Violinista y la Virgen (a story set in the times of Che Guevara in a Macondo-like town where an enigmatic man arrives to unsettle it's inhabitants).
In 1997 he returned to New York, not only to reconnect to the international world of filmmaking, but to upgrade his skills in the new era of digital technology. His endeavors resulted in the creation of five films, four now in post-production and one recently released. One of the dramas he produced, a feature set in New York, entitled, The Death of St. Eulalia (about a French woman from the 21st century who evokes, in a rather obsessive way, the martyrdom of Saint Eulalia, a young Spanish woman from the 3rd century, - a gruesome, realistic portrayal that drives her boyfriend into an frenzy of fear for her life) bears the distinct novel talents of his writing and directing. The soon-to-be-released dramatic feature, Nocturnia, directed by Erik Antoine, holds Jac's credits as producer and director of photography.
The bold documentary in the group, Juan Doe.., tells the ignored stories of the families of Latin American workers, who disappeared on 9-11, as they struggle to have them counted among the dead.
The experimental film in the collection, Cross Over, which premiered in Poland and is now part of the Warsaw Museum's permanent collection, is a short made in collaboration with the award-winning multi-media artist Tadeusz Myslowski. The short is a searing meditation on the events of September 11th.
In addition, Jac recently produced three upcoming films made by his former student and principal actress, Carmen Paintoux, in co-production with KiFilms of Paris. He also interviewed John Sayles for a documentary, commissioned by the Festival International Du Film d'Amiens, about the renowned director's life and career.
In 2005 he was invited to present- The Death of St Eulalia, and Nocturnia, at the Festival Iberoamericano de Cine de Santa Cruz. Soon after that the organizers of the Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Diablo de Oro, in Oruro, also invited him to show both films.
In October of 2005 he was contacted by producers on behalf of National Geographic to produce Outbreak: The Curse of the Black Typhus a docu-drama about the hemorrhagic fever epidemic of 1963 in Beni, Bolivia.
While in Beni, he produced and directed three more documentaries: Vientos Negros, Misiones and a commissioned film about the work of the Prefectura del Departamento del Beni.
That same year he met Amy Hesketh, who collaborated with him in the documentaries in Beni and joined the film company. In 2008 Jac produced Hesketh's opera prima Sirwiñakuy. In 2010 they collaborated again, this time in three films that were produced back to back between December of 2010 until March 2011. Maleficarum, directed by Jac Avila, Barbazul and Le Marquis de la Croix, both directed by Amy Hesketh.
In 2012 Jac directed Dead But Dreaming, a vampire feature story set in the 1800's. In 2013 Jac produced and starred in Amy Hesketh's Olalla. In 2015 Jac produced and directed his own version of De Sade's Justine and wrote and produced Amy Hesketh's Pygmalion.
Jac is presently developing the second part of the miniseries El Hombre de la Luna, to be shot in New York, Paris, and La Paz as well as the feature Aventura, to be directed by Erix Antoine and the sensational television series Pachamama, both to be shot in Bolivia.- Pato Hoffmann, the 1999 Indian Celebrity of the Year, was born in Bolivia to Andes Indian parents with Spanish and German blood. He was in San Francisco, taking kung fu and acting classes, after the success of Dances with Wolves (1990). Agents were looking for Native American talent and signed him up. He is currently onstage in L.A. in "Day of the Dead", a comedy. When not acting, he lectures on Native American concerns. Source: Walter Scott's Personality Parade-Parade Magazine-Sunday, 05/14/00.
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Sanjines made his first feature film, Ukamau (1966), under the auspices of the Bolivian Film Institute, of which he was named director in 1965. A landmark in the history of Bolivian cinema, Ukamau is a sympathetic depiction of the social problems of the Andean peasantry shot exclusively in Aymara, an indigenous language. Because of the controversy surrounding the film, Sanjines was fired from his post, but went on to become one of the most successful of Latin America's leftist filmmakers.
Sanjines has attempted to forge a genuinely popular cinema capable of presenting a revolutionary political agenda in a form accessible to working-class and peasant audiences. His most famous feature, the controversial Blood of the Condor (1969), is an impassioned defense of Bolivia's Indian cultures and an attack on US imperialism (symbolized by a covert sterilization program). The nonfiction film The Night of San Juan (1971) features a documentary reconstruction, enacted by survivors, of the infamous "Night of San Juan" massacre of Bolivian miners. In Jatun auka (1974) (released in Peru), Sanjines worked with members of an Andean peasant community to dramatize the brutal exploitation of the peasantry. Even when he has worked in exile, Sanjines has shown an exceptional ability to make artistically innovative and politically powerful films in spite of low budgets and the difficulties attendant on non-industrial film production in Latin America.- Director
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After completing the two films that earned him a place in Latin American cinema, Juan Carlos was in the predicament of what to do next. In winter of 2008, aboard a cargo ship crossing the north Atlantic, he decided it was time to follow his muse in his native Bolivia. Three very personal films came about from the 10-year journey.
In Zona Sur a bourgeois Bolivian family undergoes major turmoil in the face of political changes. It Premiered at The Tokyo International Film Festival and won writing and direction awards at Sundance 2010, before going on in impressive tour of 150 film festivals worldwide, including, Berlin, London, Guadalajara, Chicago, Moscow, to name a few. The Hollywood Reporter wrote: 'Stylistically innovative... the director has managed to get inside the very fabric of lives as they are unraveling.' And Screen Daily said: ... [the director's] themes are so accessible that [the film's] ruminations on generational divides and the challenges of raising a family transcend geographical borders.'
It was followed by a-once-in-a-lifetime voyage of initiation to a place deep in South American jungle that is fast disappearing right before our eyes. Land Without Evil (Yvy Maraey) is a Bolivian-Mexican-Norwegian co-production. Juan Carlos plays the lead role of a filmmaker who encounters ancient knowledge and questions the tenets of his own identity while traveling with a Guarani Indian to a place where uncontacted indigenous still exist. Part fiction, part performative documentary or ethnographic film, its philosophical and poetic fabric make it, as the Hollywood Reported said: "a beautiful meditation on origins and identity." The film opened in Berlinale Native, Mar del Plata, Morelia, Vancouver, and won awards in Havana, Montreal, Trieste, Tres Fronteras and played at The Museum of Modern Art of New York. The film has a huge following in the College Circuit and has awaken the interest of an Academic community mesmerized by its contemporary gaze on ancient themes. The trilogy was completed in 2018 by Søren, a meditation on love and the role of the imagination in modern relationships. It was inspired by Kierkegaard's writings and it features French actor and model Willy Cartier as Søren. Shot in the Bolivian Andes and the lush jungles below, the film opened in the prestigious Cineteca Nacional de Mexico in 2019. It's the more flee flowing and experimental of the three.
Swimming across cold waters of Lake Titicaca and the remote shores of the South Atlantic in the Argentine Patagonia, for a film commissioned by the Argentine Ministry of Culture to homage the fallen in the Falklands War (My Mar Adentro), once again, he realized it was time to crossover and embrace the industry again.
In 2022, Juan Carlos directed Season 8 of El Señor de los Cielos, Hispanic television's most successful TV franchise ever, with nearly 3 billion views across all the Americas. It aired in the US in January 2023 to record breaking ratings for the studio Telemundo/NBC/Universal. It's due on Netflix in the spring of 2023. In 2002, he also directed 6 episodes of The Power of Sunflowers for Disney+ (in post-production).
Not the first experience with wide-audience-appeal content. His first film, Jonah and the Pink Whale (1995), a bittersweet romance doomed by the growth of the drug cartels of the time, was an instant box office success in Bolivia and Mexico. It was made possible by a generous grant from the Foundation for New Latin American Cinema (out of over 200 entries from all Latin America). It won best first film in Cartagena and opened the doors to his alma matter, The Sundance Institute. American Visa (2002), a romantic thriller about the 'Bolivian Dream', with Kate del Castillo and Academy Award Nominee, Demián Bichir, was a solid box office success and still a favorite in cable and on-demand platforms. It opened in Morelia, and Havana, Biarritz and won a Mexican Academy Award (Ariel)
American Visa, Zona Sur and Land without Evil were Bolivian submissions for the Oscars. Juan Carlos's entire film catalogue is represented by Shoreline Entertainment and is available for streaming in various platforms in the US and worldwide.
After juggling the demands of auteur and commercial cinema and television, Juan Carlos is once again in process of making a crossover. During the pandemic, he took refuge in his seaside cottage in the coast of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, where he practices open water swimming. He wrote a novel which is the basis for new film projects he's adapting for the screen. He also taught writing and directing online and had the privilege of working as script editor on a project he's now attached to direct. Shadows on the Rock, written by Susan Sultan and Gerald L'Ecuyer, is a free adaptation of the novel by Willa Cather to be shot in Canada, the United States and France. The project is in development.
Juan Carlos was born in Bolivia and lives and works in Mexico, a country with a bustling industry that gave him opportunity to grow as a professional. He studied filmmaking at Columbia College, Chicago - part of a generation of Columbia graduates like Janusz Kaminski and Mauro Fiore, who collaborated with him in his short films. In Los Angeles, he became a member of The Open Fist Theatre, under the direction of Ziad Hamzeh. Acting, directing and collaborating on all areas of theatre production, left a deep resonance in his creative upbringing. He made it an objective to combine these two schools of training to delve into what he considers the essence of storytelling: the human heart. He has an ease when it comes to working with actors and staging for the camera. With a strong hold in his national roots and global Latin American cultural identity, Juan Carlos intends to return to the place where he initiated the long voyage of discovery.- Actor
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Bernardo Peña, a Bolivian born, fully bilingual in English and Spanish, actor, got an early start in daytime soaps, Passions and The Young & The Restless, later in prime-time series, Law & Order, Numb3rs and Southland. More recently Bernardo has appeared in various TV series, including Arrested Development, La Entrega and Criminal Minds: Evolution. In film, Bernardo has acted in Cielito Lindo, Xibalba, Olvidados, Vengeance: A Love Story and Bring Me An Avocado, among others. In addition, Bernardo has an active commercial career, having appeared in dozens of national advertising campaigns since moving to Los Angeles back in 1999. In March of 2020, at the height of the Pandemic, he along with fellow actors, Mark Tacher and Ricardo Molina, opened Broskys Lab, LLC, a production company focused on creating content that highlights the richness of Latinx and other underrepresented cultures.- Composer
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Jaime Mendoza-Nava was born on December 1, 1925, in La Paz, Bolivia, where he received his early musical training. Recognized as a child prodigy, he quickly won the admiration and respect of audiences and musicians alike with his unique compositions and orchestrations. At the young age of seven, he led a memorable concert that raised funds for the construction of an orphanage. He later pursued his musical studies in Buenos Aires, at New York's Juilliard School of Music, at the Royal Conservatory in Madrid, with Nadia Boulanger and at the Sorbone in Paris. Majoring in composition in Madrid, he completed the five-year course in study within one year and obtained the Conservatory's First Prize in 1950. After conducting the Madrid and Lima Symphony Orchestras, he became the music director and conductor of the Bolivian National Symphony Orchestra. In this post, he introduced to his native country important symphonic and chamber works from the modern repertoire and furthered the course of Bolivian national music. He also initiated the orchestra's first national tour in which he made music accessible to the diverse regions of the country. He was a member of the Congres de l'Olimpiade International de Musique in Salzburg and attended its second session in Pasadena, California.
After moving to Los Angeles, California, he pursued his interest in motion pictures and became a member of the Walt Disney Studios music department. There he scored music for television programs such as Zorro and the Mickey Mouse Club. Later he became the music director for United Productions of America, producers of the Mr. Magoo Cartoon series and soon after he launched an independent film post production company. During his forty-year career in motion pictures, he composed music for more than three hundred feature motion pictures, television series episodes, animated pieces, documentaries, and commercials. He recorded with some of Hollywood's greatest studio musicians and with the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Mendoza-Nava has worked with the pentatonic native music of the Andes in many of his compositions, exploring its tonal possibilities and its powerful native rhythms. His Tres Danzas Bolivianas for piano are a good example of the modern treatment of the melody of this music. His Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Don Alvaro (a symphonic poem), and Gitana for piano are more universal in style, though traces of an Hispanic influence are noticeable. Other important compositions include Serenade to an Orchid for Cello and Orchestra and the symphonic poems Antawara and Pachamama.
Most recently, a collection of Mr. Mendoza-Nava's vocal works was premiered in La Paz, Bolivia through the support of the Music Society and Ms Sarah Ismael. Also, several of his piano works have been performed at the Bolivian National Music Festival and elsewhere by Grace Rodriguez Radic, the piano virtuoso. Mr. Mendoza-Nava passed away on May 31, 2005 in Woodland Hills, California. He is survived by his wife of forty-seven years, Billie Johanna Mendoza, five children and five grandchildren.- Art Director
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Anthony Stabley was born in La Paz, Bolivia. He is known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Saw X (2023) and Stigmata (1999).- Director
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Kiro Russo was born in 1984 in La Paz, Bolivia. Kiro is a director and writer, known for Viejo calavera (2016), The Great Movement (2021) and New Life (2015).- Producer
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Gerardo Guerra was born on 25 March 1974 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is a producer and production manager, known for Che: Part Two (2008), Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) and Anomalia (2019).- Evo Morales was born on 26 October 1959 in Isallavi, Orinoca, Bolivia.
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Natasha Cuba was born in 1974 in La Paz, Bolivia. She was a casting director, known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Elizabethtown (2005) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). She died on 2 October 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Florida, USA.- René Barrientos Ortuño was born on 30 May 1919 in Tarata, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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Marcos Loayza born in 1959, in La Paz Bolivia. He studied architecture in La Paz and attended The International School of Cinema and Video of San Antonio de de los Baños, Cuba. He was a student of Alfredo Bryce Ecgenique, Jean Claude Carriere and José Sanchis Siniestra. He started his career with acknowledged activities in video and television.- Writer
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Violeta Ayala is a Quechua filmmaker, writer, artist and technologist. Her credits include Prison X (2021), a VR animation that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Cocaine Prison (2017), The Fight (2017), The Bolivian Case (2015) and Stolen (2009). Her films have premiered at A-List festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival, screening in hundreds of festivals worldwide and distributed in cinemas in France and Bolivia and in platforms such as The Guardian, PBS, Amazon Prime and others. Violeta's won 50 awards, including a Walkey Award and nominations for the prestigious IDA in Los Angeles and the Rory Peck Sony Impact Award in London. In 2013 she was invited by Arianna Huffington to write an opinion column at the Huffington Post. In 2015 Violeta began developing projects in Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. In 2017, she was a guest filmmaker featured in a conversation with the Foreign Director at CBS News Tony Calvin in Washington, DC. In 2018, Violeta won the Jaime Escalante medal-of-honor for her outstanding talent in filmmaking. Violeta gave a masterclass on the impact of journalism and storytelling at the Tempo Impact Conference in Stockholm and was a guest panelist at AIDC in Melbourne discussing the role of filmmakers in the fast changing media. In 2019 Violeta was invited to the Sundance Film Festival as a New Frontier Talent Fellow, she was one of nine leading New Media creators selected worldwide for the CPH Lab in Copenhagen. Violeta gave the keynote at the largest global network of organizations defending freedom of expression at IFEX 2019 in Berlin. The MIT in Boston invited her for a personal workshop developing her VR, AI and robotics practice. Violeta returned to Sundance 2020 as one of the guest luminaries for the MacArthur Foundation panel on "Editing History". On July 1st 2020, Violeta became the first Quechua filmmaker invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).- Director
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Humberto Ríos was born on 30 November 1929 in La Paz, Bolivia. He was a director and writer, known for Argentina, mayo de 1969: Los caminos de la liberación (1969), El tango es una historia (1983) and Del viento y del fuego (1983). He died on 8 October 2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Adrian Hurtado Bravo was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, to actor Hernán Hurtado. Since he was a child, Adrian accompanies his father to theater rehearsals and filming of various productions for television and cinema.
He started acting for TV commercials at 4 years old and since 2016 stars in PUHS- Padre único, hijo soltero Sitcom, action serie pilot, CHDB (2019), short films, GRILLOS (2017), Sarah (2018) and is working on an autistic character for movie Código Benjamín, to shoot in 2022. - Hugo Banzer was born on 10 May 1926 in Concepción, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He died on 5 May 2002 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
- Born in 1978 in Santa Cruz Dee la Sierra, Bolivia, Elizabeth got the acting bug in school at the early age of 6. She was always the first to volunteer for plays and poetry readings - her mother is a playwright and poetry writer - and through all of her school years Elizabeth always got the main roles in the school's productions. She played the leading role in "Life is a Dream", a play by Calderón Dee la Barca, one of the foremost dramatists from Spain. In "Life is a Dream" Elizabeth portrayed the main character who explores the conflict between free will and predestination. Elizabeth's other credits include "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet" amongst others.
Elizabeth took some time off to earn a degree in Marketing and she pursued a career in Business Administration. However, since acting was her first love, Elizabeth was contacted by her acting Mentor Jac Avila Vermeer. In 2000, she joined Pachamama Films in New York as a Production Assistant Manager as well as an actress taking her first role in the feature film "The Death Of Saint Eulalia".
During her time in New York, Elizabeth studied the Strasberg Method in addition to film production with Jac Avila Vermeer. In 2002, she moved across the country to join an independent theatre group in California. In San Diego she performed in several productions such as "CRY". In this dark comedy written and directed by Max Diammond, Elizabeth played the role of a teenager who was molested by her stepfather. Elizabeth was also seen playing one of the lead roles in the award winning play "Diary of a Catholic School Dropout" by Layon Gray and starring in "La Chunga" by Mario Vargas Llosa, a renowned Latin American writer.
2005 has been a breakthrough year in Elizabeth's career. She was cast for a variety of roles spanning a wide range of character portrayals. Of present mention are the comedy "Bar Moments" , the horror-drama "Looking for Prince Charming", the fantasy thriller "Volume 2" and most recently "Alma Provinciana" www.almaprovinciana.com as "Malina" the rich girl who falls in love with the housekeeper's son.
In 2006, she is preparing for her next role in the dramatic thriller "interview with a Scared Mind" where she plays a serial killer that ends up in an institution for the mental ill.
Other accomplishments include her selection as Ms. Bolivia International in 2004, representing Bolivia at the Ms. International 2004 Pageant in Chicago, IL. She has also done modeling work for print with Canadian, Hawaiian, Tahitian and Californian companies. She is filming commercial spots for Hispanic Television and she was cast to play a leading role in the television series Pachamama. Production starts in La Paz, Bolivia in 2006.
Elizabeth is currently co-producing and starring in a documentary called "The Pretty Girl Game" which is being shot at the Queen Mary Hotel and is being directed by Don Abernathy . Another project that she is presently involved in is as Promotions Director and Associate Producer for the feature film " Real Love". "Real Love" is in the pre-production stage and is based on the true story of Beverly Braodus Green, the mother of entertainer and film star Snoop Dogg. - Director
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He studied filmmaking at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) and the University of Vincennes, in Paris. Back in Bolivia he directed a number of film and video documentaries on cultural and social issues. He went in exile after the military coup of 1980, and continued his work in Nicaragua and Mexico. He returned to Bolivia en 1983 and directed, along with Eduardo Barrios, a UNESCO production on the miners community radio stations: "The voice of the mines". In 1984 he did a documentary on a Bolivian poet: Primo Castrillo, poeta (1984), awarded with the Second Prize at the International Super 8 Film Festival of Montreal. In 1988 he directed Bolivia: Union Rights, aired by the Dutch television.- Composer
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Rafa Espinoza was born on 15 May 2002 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is a composer and director, known for Si Me Llamas (2022), Vales Mil (2021) and Me Enamoré (2021).- Director
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Martín Boulocq was born in 1980 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He is a director and writer, known for The Visitor (2022), Eugenia (2017) and Lo más bonito y mis mejores años (2005).- Actor
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Raúl Shaw Moreno was born on 30 November 1923 in Oruro, Bolivia. He was an actor, known for The Bothersome Man (2006), Ferias de México (1959) and Kermesse (1959). He died on 12 April 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Actor
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Casiano Ancalle, a Quechua Indian, was born in Oruro, Bolivia in May 22, 1948. As Quechua was his first language, he learned Spanish as a second language when attending elementary school, and English when attending graduate studies in the US. He is married to Aleyda Reyes from Puerto Rico. He has five (5) sons and daughters. His acting skills have been put in practice late in his life, which was mostly spent as a political leader and a professional engineer.
Going through heavy economical constraints and racial and religious discrimination all along his years attending public schools, he graduated from high school with outstanding grades; and later as a Civil Engineer at the Technical University of Oruro in 1970. After working for a year and a half as an engineer in Bolivia, he received a scholarship to the United States from the Latin American Scholarship Program of American Universities (LASPAU). He first attended graduate school at the University of Houston, Texas, and then graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with the degree of MS in Sanitary Engineering in 1975.
His leadership skills sprang in his early youth. He was elected student president of the Aniceto Arce High School during the social unrest of 1964, motorized by the student's movement that ended in a military coup that overthrew President Victor Paz Estensoro from power. In 1969, during the turbulent years of the leftist military government of Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candia and the Teoponte guerrillas, he was elected President of the Revolutionary Committee of the students of the Facultad Nacional de Ingenieria (FNI) of the Technical University of Oruro. Because of his political stand, openly against Marxism, he was kicked out from the university but managed to graduate and move to the US. After finishing his studies in the US, and back in Bolivia, the President of Bolivia, Hugo Banzer Suarez named him President of the Development Corporation of Oruro to fill the regional political vacuum prevalent in those days. He was ratified in this position for all coming presidents until the Military Coup of July 1980; which overthrew elected President Lidia Gueiller. He was imprisoned for two weeks but managed to flee to exile on August 1980. He spent exile in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA, working as an engineer. As democracy returned to Bolivia with President Hernán Siles Suazo, he returned to Bolivia to be ratified as President of the Development Corporation of Oruro. He stayed in this position until the return to power of President Victor Paz Estensoro, who removed him from that position in 1986. Widowed from his first wife Diana Fernandez, he moved to Puerto Rico for a rest from public life in the middle of 1988. However in 1992, he joined the international movement of evangelicals committed to influence Latin American politics with Christian principles. So, he returned to Bolivia as the leader of a brand new political party named Bolivian Renewal Alliance. He ran for president in the 1993 national elections. His party occupied the sixth position among fourteen parties.
He makes his living as a Civil Engineer. His professional career was done in several countries but mostly in Bolivia, United States and Puerto Rico; where in 1992 started his own engineering company, CA Engineering.
In October 2014 and because of his Bolivian origin, he was approached by casting companies in Puerto Rico for the film "Our Brand is Crisis" starring Sandra Bullock. The film's director, David Gordon Green selected him for the role of Campesino Leader, and Ancalle flew to New Orleans to film his role. Right after filming, he was hired in Puerto Rico as a speech coach for the same film.- Jorge Antonio Saavedra was born in 1950 in Beni, Bolivia. He was an actor, known for Dependencia sexual (2003). He died on 29 July 2022 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
- Agar Delos was born in 1937 in Cairoma, La Paz, Bolivia. She was an actress, known for Amargo mar (1987), Sealed Cargo (2015) and ¿Quién mató a la llamita blanca? (2007). She was married to Gonzalo Murillo. She died on 9 June 2019 in La Paz, Bolivia.
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Hernan Hurtado was born on 19 September 1967 in Trinidad, Bolivia. He is an actor and director, known for CHDB - CHicos Del Barrio (2020), PUHS - Padre único, hijo soltero (2016) and Discapacitado (2021).- Director
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Julia Vargas Weise was born in 1942 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was a director and writer, known for Sealed Cargo (2015), Esito sería... La vida es un carnaval (2004) and Patricia, una vez basta (2005). She died on 1 April 2018 in Barcelona, Spain.- Composer
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Alberto Villalpando was born on 21 November 1940 in La Paz, Bolivia. He is a composer, known for Mi socio (1983), Ukamau (1966) and Blood of the Condor (1969).- Rosa Ríos was born on 17 April 1935 in La Paz, Bolivia. She was an actress, known for Cuestión de fe (1995), Don Chinche (1982) and Olvidados (2014). She died on 19 August 2018 in La Paz, Bolivia.
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Juan Pablo Richter was born on 9 February 1982 in Trinidad, Bolivia. Juan Pablo is a director and editor, known for Casting (2010), 98 segundos sin sombra (2021) and El cuento de Max y Emma (2022).- Writer
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Óscar Soria was born in 1917 in La Paz, Bolivia. He was a writer and director, known for Ukamau (1966), Blood of the Condor (1969) and Mi socio (1983). He died in 1988 in La Paz, Bolivia.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Fernando Martínez was born in 1975 in Bolivia. He was an assistant director and director, known for ¿Por Qué quebró Mc Donalds? (2011), El atraco (2004) and American Visa (2005). He died on 27 December 2013 in Bolivia.- Gonzalo Camacho was born in 1942 in La Paz, Bolivia. He was an actor, known for Azú (2013), La Encantada (1988) and El Infierno de Gaspar Mendoza (2015). He died on 23 July 2016 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Alexia Viruez was born on 4 May 1994 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
- Nilo Soruco was born on 6 July 1927 in Tarija, Bolivia. Nilo was a composer, known for The Night of San Juan (1971). Nilo died on 1 April 2004 in Tarija, Bolivia.
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Beatriz Palacios was born on 31 July 1952 in Oruro, Bolivia. She was a producer and director, known for Llocsi caimanta (1981), The Flags of Dawn (1984) and The Secret Nation (1989). She died on 19 July 2003 in Havana, Cuba.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Mónica Cortés was born on 22 January 1979 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Mónica is an assistant director and casting director, known for Blackthorn (2011), La Lengua Desnuda and Our Brand Is Crisis (2015).- Jorge Medina was born on 24 April 1968 in Coroico, La Paz Department, Bolivia. He was an actor, known for American Visa (2005). He died on 23 November 2022 in Bolivia.
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Jin Yoo-Kim is a Korean Bolivian American filmmaker who produced "Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust," a feature documentary exploring California water issues through the eyes of Native American, Japanese American WWII incarcerees, and environmentalists. She is the impact producer for "Try Harder!" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2021. She co-produced "An Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem," and "K-Town '92." Jin served as the digital engagement impact producer for "Waking Dream," and was the LA theatrical impact producer for "Blowin' Up." She directed a short film as part of the A-Doc #AsianAmCovidStories called "Spamfight!" and is in development for a food docuseries and co-writing a feature comedy. She is a 2020-2021 Sundance Creative Producers Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent X CNN Original Series Docuseries Intensive Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Doc Lab fellow, and was a 2017 Firelight Media Impact Producing Fellow. She received her MFA in Film & TV Production from USC and a BA in Psychology and Cinema & Media Studies from Wellesley College.