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Alvaro Velarde

Peru2003 90min Beta Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

Ana, a repressed housewife, has been left in the house while her husband, Ernesto, is away on a business trip. Ana’s annoyance, Ernesto has rented out their garden to a soap-opera production, . Bored in her room, Ana finds herself addicted to watching the shooting of the soap-opera from the window. Without knowing that Ana is really the peculiar housewife, the director casts her to act in the program.

Diretor

Alvaro Velarde

From 1993 Alvaro Velarde studied filmmaking in New York and completed two shorts in three years while working in the film department of the Museum of Modern Art. Back in Lima, Peru he completed his third short, , which received awards from the Peruvian Festival of Shorts in 1999. is his feature debut.