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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.- 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.- René Barrientos Ortuño was born on 30 May 1919 in Tarata, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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- Director
- Producer
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
- Writer
- Producer
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).- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Location Management
- Casting Director
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).- Gustavo Sánchez Salazar was born on 10 July 1928 in Totora, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
- Mario Teran was born on 9 April 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was married to Julia Peralta Salas. He died on 10 March 2022 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
- Born in 1994 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the producer and writer Fernando Bernal studied Audiovisual Communication at the Royal University of the National Chamber of Commerce and as a producer he made several music videos and advertising spots since 2011. In 2015 Bernal wrote his first novel romantic titled "the love of my life" which consists of 2 parts and is available on "Wattpad", in 2019 he wrote his first book entitled "Restoration", which tells all the experiences he has lived throughout his life, giving him a philosophical and reflective touch, it is from this book that Bernal begins to interfere in what is the musical composition, preferably the writing of songs, in 2020 Fernando Bernal uses the name "Lekxn" as a pseudonym to become a singer and songwriter, now he's ready to sing his own compositions to the whole world. Under the genre of Rap, hip / hop, trap and pop Lekxn, through music, will always seek the reflection of people.
- Jaime Laredo was born on 7 June 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was previously married to Ruth Laredo.
- Actor
- Cinematographer
Hugo Roncal was born on 23 July 1923 in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Ukamau (1966), Crimen sin olvido (1968) and Mina Alaska (1968). He died on 12 August 2005.