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Joanna Lombardi

Joanna Lombardi

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Biography

Director, showrunner and executive producer. She directed “In House” in 2012, which won the Zenit de Oro at the Montreal Film Festival and the FIPRESCI International Critics Award. In 2015, she premiered her second film, “Alone”, at the Rotterdam IFFR Film Festival and competed in the Moscow IFF, Isola IFF, Sao Paulo LFF, among others. In 2017, she directed her first commissioned film, “How to Deal With a Heartbreak”, which was a box office success and became the first Peruvian film acquired by Netflix as an Original. In 2023, she directed “How to Deal With a Heartbreak 2” as a Netflix Worldwide Original.

Known For

Ella
3.5

Ella – well she has a name too – Luna (Patricia Garza), is actually about her much older husband and painter Alfredo (Paul Vega), and his choice of actions/reactions after she decides to leave him for a lover that he wasn’t aware of. Alberto has been going through a creative crisis and is under pressure to complete a series of paintings for a forthcoming show. It is nevertheless also plain to see that he’d been treating Luna, who’s also his model, largely as an object of desire and obsession – capturing with camera her every movement in the house when she’s not posing for him, and memorising her every physical feature, moles and warts included – he’d apparently counted twenty seven moles on her body. When Alfredo tracks down and entraps the lover she’d wanted to elope with (Rómulo Assereto), he’ll discover that they both have more in common than merely desiring the same woman…

Ella

2010Movie
Solos

Four young people travel through lost towns of the jungle in a van. It is a road movie where all members of the group take an inflatable screen plus all the necessary equipment to faraway places in the country to show movies. Three of the characters, those from Lima, premiered the movie in commercial theaters with tremendous failure. It was taken off in one week due to few spectators. One day they heard about itinerant movies and it thought this would be a good way to show their movie to areas non contaminated by Hollywood films. With this idea they hire Beto, an Argentinean that has experience with outdoor movies, to help with the technical things they didn’t know. The trip begins with the enthusiasm of those that want to exhibit the movie, and little by little convert it to a reflection of the movies, friendship and loneliness.

Solos

2016Movie