Miss Universo en el Perú

Name: Miss Universo en el Perú
Start: 2023-05-05UTC16:15
Location: CINETECA - Sala Borau

Alejandro Legaspi

Margreth Noth

Stefan Kaspar

Fernando Barreto

Fernando Espinoza

María Barea

Grupo Chaski

Peru

1982

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Synopsis

The collective's first film is a resounding outcry against the objectification of women and wastefulness of the Miss Universe contest held in Peru in the 1980s, at the time undergoing an urgent economic and social crisis. The glamour of the event contrasts with the sordid reality of Peruvian women in a clearly feminist film that aimed its effective satirical criticism at the media. (JHE)

Director biography

Grupo Chaski

Made up of Stefan Kaspar, Alejandro Legaspi, Fernando Espinoza, María Barea and Fernando Barreto, the Chaski Group was born in 1982, a time of great optimism in Peru upon the arrival of democracy after twelve years of military dictatorship. The collective's main goal was to spread cinema beyond Lima and to record the situations of the provinces and the city outskirts, which had always gone unseen. This gave rise to such unquestionable masterpieces in Latin American cinema as Gregorio (1984) and Juliana (1988), and fascinating original works like Miss Universe en el Perú (1982) and Caminos de liberación (1985), the recent restorations of which we are showing for the first time in Spain. (JHE)