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Claudia Llosa

クラウディア・リョサ　/　くらうでぃあ・りょさ

Film director from Peru

November 15, 1976 (age 49)　・　Lima, Lima Department, Peru

Lima Department
film director
screenwriter
film producer

My Take

Claudia Llosa is one of the few directors I'd call a true author, and her Golden Bear for The Milk of Sorrow felt fully earned. She translates Peru's wounds, civil war trauma written onto a woman's body, into a cinematic language the world can feel without flattening it. Fever Dream showed she'll keep dissolving the line between dream and reality rather than playing it safe for the market. That refusal to court easy commercial appeal, paired with a Lima University intellect, gives her work a rare spine. She's a filmmaker I follow on principle, and I expect her next project to matter.

Overview

Claudia Llosa Bueno (born 15 November 1976) is a Peruvian film director, writer, producer, and author. She is recognized for her Academy-Award-nominated film, The Milk of Sorrow.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Claudia Llosa
Name (Japanese): クラウディア・リョサ
Reading: くらうでぃあ・りょさ
Born: November 15, 1976 (age 49)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Dragon
Origin: Lima, Lima Department, Peru
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter / film producer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Lima

Awards & achievements

2009 Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎
2009 Golden Bear
2012 Teddy Award

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	The Milk of Sorrow	—
Notable work	Fever Dream	—
Notable work	Madeinusa	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B5

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