December 2006
 Alejandro
Rossi Velasco is a professor of Communications at the
University of Lima. He is the director of ¡Lima Was!,
a documentary about how dance reaffirms Andean identity among
young migrants to the Lima metropolitan area. ¡Lima Was!
has been broadcasted nationally by Televisión Nacional
del Perú, and has won awards internationally, including
the Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Festival de Cinema Peruvien
in Paris, France and the Tatu de Prata-Premio Revelação
at the 2005 Jornada Internacional de Cinema da Bahia in Salvador,
Brazil. Rossi is also the co-writer of Augusto Tamayo's El
Bien Esquivo, and has worked as the artistic director of several
films. He is a member of the Sociedad Peruana de Producción
Audiovisual and of the Asociación de Productores Cinematográficos
del Peru. Rossi studied geology at the National University of
Engineering in Lima and formerly worked in resource extraction
industries.
"Like a little seed that is basically information to organize
a great tree, the Huaylarsh [a traditional Andean dance]
is a seed of my own land that organizes in the young people a
sense of identity, of order and possibility."
Screened by NMAI
Image
credit: Alejandro Rossi
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