Madeinusa Claudia Llosa Peru, Spain, Drama, 2006 122 min., 35mm, Color Spanish with English Subtitles Metropolitan 14 Monday, April 23, 7 PM Mature Audiences

Madeinusa is a girl who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) until Easter Sunday, in which the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days, sin does not exist: God is dead and can’t see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa, her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo—the Mayor and local big shot—maintain this tradition without question. Everything changes with the arrival of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima who will unknowingly change the young girl’s destiny.

Writer and director Claudia Llosa was born in Lima, Peru, in 1976. She holds a bachelor’s degree in filmmaking and a master’s degree in screenwriting from Madrid’s Escuela de Artes y Cine TAI. She also studied directing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Llosa attended the Sundance Screenwriters Lab with her script for Madeinusa, which went on to receive the Coral Award for best original screenplay at the International Festival of New Latin Cinema in Havana. She was awarded a grant from the Fundación Carolina y Casa de América, which funds the development of Iberoamerican film projects. In 2004 Llosa directed the short film Seeing Martina. Madeinusa is her feature debut

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Producer: Antonio Chavarrías, Claudia Llosa, José María Morales

Production Company: Wanda Vision, SA; Oberon

Screenwriter: Claudia Llosa

Editing: Ernest Blasi

Cinematographer: Raúl Pérez Ureta

Music: Selma Mutal