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Event 57
Luis Llosa in conversation with Enrique Planas
Film and literature
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Teatro Arequepay
The Peruvian filmmaker Lucho Llosais a director and producer. After time spent as a journalist and film critic, he has since worked making films, being the first Latin American to make three big budget films in the US movie industry. His production company, Iguana Films, creates series and films in Peru and other countries in the region. He has directed films such as Hour of the Assassin, Sniper, The Specialist, Anaconda, The Feast of the Goa and Tatuajes en la memoria. He has also made television series, such as Gamboa and the soap opera Carmín. In addition, he has also worked in the theatre, and on the creation of the “museums of the image” concept. This year he publishes his autobiography, Secretos de un latino en Hollywood. In conversation with Enrique Planas.
Farid Kahhat makes a fascinating analysis of the right-wing in Latin America in a new book, Contra la amenaza fantasma: La derecha radical latinoamericana y la reinvención de un enemigo común.This sociologist, writer and journalist examines the narratives and actions of the Latin American right-wing movements, so complex, and varied and different from each other, just as left-wing movements are. The author goes beyond certain common factors (nativism, populism and authoritarianism) to an important phenomenon proposed by the radical right: the suppression or invisiblisation of the differences among left-wing ideologies, and the creation of a discourse that proposes the left as an existential threat to democracy. In conversation with Zaraí Toledo.
Roberto Chang and Zaraí Toledo in conversation with Carlos Paredes Lanatta
The Peruvian economy and its challenges
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Teatro Municipal
Roberto Chang (Peru/United States) is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Rutgers (New Jersey) and a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also been an official researcher at the Federal Reserve in Atlanta and professor at the universities of New York, Princeton, Columbia and the London School of Economics. His contributions to the study of international economy, monetary and exchange policy, and financial crises have been very well received and are considered in the academic debate about the practice of political economy. He is the editor of Economía peruana: ¿Milagro o ficción? Zaraí Toledo(Peru) has a doctorate in Politics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He researches the development of the Andrean state, the management of natural resources, and informality. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University, New Orleans. These two will talk about the challenges of the Peruvian economy, together with the economist Carlos Paredes Lanatta.
Farid Kahhat, Rocío Silva Santisteban and Carlos Umaña in conversation with Jonathan Castro
Rethinking the continent
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Teatro Arequepay
Three festival guests offer some ideas regarding the most pressing problems of our times, giving hints for putting us on a better path. With Farid Kahhat (Peru), sociologist and writer, an authority in the political analysis of contemporary Latin America; Carlos Umaña (Costa Rica), a doctor, activist who works for the abolition of nuclear weapons and winner of the 2017 Novel Peace Prize; and Rocío Silva Santiesteban (Peru), writer and academic, former member of the Peruvian parliament and human rights activist. In conversation with Jonathan Castro.
Hamja Ahsan and Ekaitz Cancela in conversation with Giacomo Roncagliolo
On utopias
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
We talk about utopias with two contemporary thinkers who also reflect on technology. Ekaitz Cancela Rodríguez (Spain), author of Utopías digitales, is a journalist, editor of The Syllabus, publishes articles in El Salto, and is one of the founders and managers of Radical Books, the cooperative that publishes Verso Libros and Manifest Llibres. In Tímidos radicales, the artist and activist Hamja Ahsan (United Kingdom) proposes a utopia: a state for calm, introverted people on the autism spectrum, whose national anthem is the sound of a sea snail, and where the wealth of contemplation, reflective solitude and intimate company is celebrated. In conversation with Giacomo Roncagliolo.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
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With the support of British Council and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Diego Enrique Osorno, Federico Rivas and Américo Zambrano Romero in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
What is happening in the Americas?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
A look at the state of the continent along with some distinguished journalists and festival guests. With Federico Rivas (Argentina), El País correspondent; Diego Enrique Osorno(Mexico), an independent writer and reporter who contributes regularly to Mexican and international media outlets, and author of En la montaña,a book about the Zapatista movement on its 30th anniversary; and Américo Zambrano Romero (Peru), investigative reporter and author of Nuestros muertos,a book about the failed Pedro Castillo coup in Peru. They will talk to Clara Elvira Ospina (Colombia), a journalist with more than 30 years of experience in Colombia and Peru, and founder of the independent media company Epicentro.
Manuel Choqque, Mónica Huerta and Waldir Maqque talk to Andrea Ortiz de Zevallos
Peruvian gastronomy and produce
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Just as with the cocoa of the Amazon region, which links the geographical origin of the product with the human factors of ancestral practices and beliefs, there are many Peruvian ingredients that cry out to be recognised, cared for and preserved. This session focusses on reflecting on the sources of these unique foodstuffs, which can only be found locally, and their use in the now world-renowned Peruvian cuisine. Are we going beyond marketing towards a genuine appreciation of our local varieties? Andrea Ortiz de Zevallos, Head of the Despensa Amazónica team and author of the book Madre de Dios, will talk to the agricultural engineer Manuel Choqque; Mónica Huerta, a gastronomical ambassador for the Peru brand, picantera and owner of La Nueva Palomino; and Waldir Maqque, author of the successful book Qué riquito.
