
J.D. Fernández Molero
Directing
Biography
J.D. Fernández Molero (1987, Peru) is a film director, producer, editor, and programmer. His films, which include the documentary Reminiscencias (2010), the fiction feature Videofilia (2015), and the hybrid film Punku (2025), have been screened at festivals such as Berlinale, Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, New Horizons, Mar del Plata, BAFICI, Cartagena, FICValdivia, La Habana, Singapore, Flaherty NYC, and presented in spaces like MoMA and MoMI in New York, Casa Encendida and Tabakalera in Spain, and the Mexican Cinematheque. He has won many awards, like the Tiger Award at Rotterdam, Grand Prix at Split, and Best Iberoamerican Cinematography in Cartagena, in addition to being the Peruvian candidate for the 89th Academy Awards with Videofilia and a recipient of grants from Hubert Bals Fund, Visions sud est, and DAFO.
Known For

Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.
Alba

Nino is a spoiled child who, immersed by a strong fever, is absorbed by a mysterious painting. Even though his mother had warned him, the trick that made him fall prey of the painting is unleashed. And so, Nino does nothing but get lost in a maze of images trying to return home.
Fever

Iván is found unconscious with an injured eye in the jungle. As Meshia reunites him and his family, she is drawn into a foreboding journey. A disturbing look at Peru’s cultural contradictions shot on a coarse mix of analogue and digital formats.
Punku

Verony, a young dancer, accompanies her partner, Marte, a photographer, through his gender transition. Together, they embark on a road trip to the northern coast of Peru, where they spend New Year's Eve with Marte's family.
Valves

Internet cafés and slackers, not-so-innocent schoolgirls and amateur porn using Google Glass: things in Lima, the Peruvian capital, are pretty similar to contemporary reality, virtual or otherwise, in the rest of the world. Cinema meets digital psychedelia.
Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)

A desert. Three lost people. One of them an invalid. After walking all day, under the sun and aimlessly, what's next?
The Flies

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re_making

On the northern coast of Ecuador, on Tolita Island, Washo, a fifty-year-old unemployed fisherman tempted by necessity accepts the invitation of his friend who brings him to raid a tomb, insisting he knows the location of a new Moche treasure.
Huaquero
An experimental docufiction created with Johnny Rodrigo aka 'Mayor of the block'
Another Day Without a Future, But What the Hell Another Day...
Time interval for relaxation between filmmaking obligations.
Re:creo

Direct-to-DVD documentary about the creation process and impact of the Peruvian film "Videofilia (and other viral syndromes)".
Síndromes virales: Detrás de Videofilia

This document is a consecutive and linear collection of situations and characters (Mario Poggi, el Hon. Antonio Córdova Quezada) that are appearing without a greater objective than the search itself.
La Chucha Perdida de los Incas

Juan Daniel's memory doesn't belong to him anymore. After an amnesiac accident at the beginning of 2009, he started watching home-videos and having reminiscent dreams in the need of reconstructing his memory and identity. Months later, he found himself with too many celluloid, analog and digital memories, three generations' eyes captured by different formats. This is the neurological experience Juan Daniel suffered.
Reminiscences

A ghostly presence wanders through familiar images that are revealed as simulations of an experience that used to be human.
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‘El obedecedario’ (The Obedient One), made by young Peruvian filmmaker Juan Daniel F. Molero, is a short film donated to promote the second edition of the Lima Independiente Film Festival, held from 16 to 24 June 2012.
The Obedient One

The micro-world of an isolated Amazonian native community is altered by the visit of an outsider with a camera and mysterious intentions.
The abducted

A shipwrecked man wanders between sea and land searching for that which left him empty and adrift.