November 2006
Fernando Valdivia Gómez
heads TeleAndes Productions, which has produced over 115 works
of various lengths for the BBC, PBS, and Latin American broadcasters,
and a professor of television at the Universidad Mayor de San
Marcos, in Lima, Peru. He often leads social video projects in
the slums of Lima and projects that support the growth of indigenous
videomaking. He is currently producing the environmental documentary
Hombres del Marañon, which will be directed by Raúl
Gallegos. Valdivia is the director of Buscando el Azul
(2002), a documentary which won the 2004 Gran Premio Anaconda
at the Premio Anaconda festival in La Paz, Bolivia, and the Premio
Rigoberta Menchú at the 2004 Voces Contra el Silencio festival
in Mexico.
"The cultural diversity of my country is an invaluable patrimony
that I learn from every day and that necessitates horizontal and
hetergenous bridges of communication. As a documentary filmmaker,
I work on productions for film and television that show the relationship
of man and his environment, and also syncretism, the dynamic processes
of transformation in the indigenous cultures of Peru."
Screened by NMAI
Image
credit: Fernando Valdivia - courtesy of
Teleandes Producciones; Fernando Valdivia - courtesy of Teleandes
Producciones
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