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Alejandro Legaspi

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
0

Gender
Male

Birthday
March 27, 1948 (78 years old)

Place of Birth
Montevideo, Uruguay

Alejandro Legaspi

Biography

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.

Known For

Editing

2024Iquitos, la primera ciudad en caer...Editor
2003Memories of Paraíso...Editor
1985Paths of liberation...Editor

Directing

2015The Last News...Director
2013El azaroso camino de la fe...Director
2007Sueños lejanos...Director
2005Time of memory...Director
1992Al Filo de la Navaja...Director
1992Enfermera de Guardia...Director
1992Rojo, Negro, Verde...Director
1989Crisanto, el haitiano...Director
1988Juliana...Director
1987Peru: Ni leche ni gloria...Director
1987Meeting of little men...Director
1987Margot, la del circo...Director
1985Paths of liberation...Director
1985Gregorio...Director
1982Miss Universe in Peru...Director
1981Cruz Roja...Director
1978Y se queda en silencio...Director
1978Dale Golpe a ese Cajón...Director
1977Caballitos de Totora...Director
1974Operación Mantaro...Director
Voces del Señor...Director

Writing

2015The Last News...Writer
2007Sueños lejanos...Writer
2005Time of memory...Writer

Crew

2007The Sax Country...Cinematography
2003Memories of Paraíso...Cinematography
1985Paths of liberation...Cinematography
1985Gregorio...Cinematography
1974El cine de cada día...Cinematography

Camera

1998Loco Lucho...Director of Photography
1986Cota y los Niños...Director of Photography
1982The Disobedient Carnation...Director of Photography
1980The Uprising...Camera Supervisor
1971La Bandera que Levantamos...Director of Photography
Mujeres de El Planeta...Director of Photography

Acting