Alejandro Legaspi

Directing·Mar 27, 1948·Montevideo, Uruguay

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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.

Film	Credit
The Last News2015 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
El azaroso camino de la fe2013 · Director	Director
Sueños lejanos2007 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Time of memory2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Loco Lucho1998 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
AAl Filo de la Navaja1992 · Director	Director
EEnfermera de Guardia1992 · Director	Director
RRojo, Negro, Verde1992 · Director	Director
Crisanto, el haitiano1989 · Director	Director
Juliana1988 · Director	Director
PPeru: Ni leche ni gloria1987 · Director	Director
Meeting of little men1987 · Director	Director
Margot, la del circo1987 · Director	Director
Cota y los Niños1986 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Paths of liberation1985 · Director	Director
Gregorio1985 · Director	Director
Miss Universe in Peru1982 · Director	Director
The Disobedient Carnation1982 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
CCruz Roja1981 · Director	Director
YY se queda en silencio1978 · Director	Director
DDale Golpe a ese Cajón1978 · Director	Director
CCaballitos de Totora1977 · Director	Director
OOperación Mantaro1974 · Director	Director
La Bandera que Levantamos1971 · Director of Photography	Director of Photography
Mujeres de El PlanetaDirector of Photography	Director of Photography
VVoces del SeñorDirector	Director