Omar Forero
Directing
Biography
Omar Forero (Trujillo - Peru, 1969). Graduate in Communication Sciences at Antenor Orrego University. In 2006 and 2007 he conducted film workshops at DeAnza College in California, USA. He currently teaches at the Universidad Privada del Norte. Director and founder of the production company Cine de Barrio.
Known For
A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid the discrimination, but, in the end, his vital roots lead him to reconnect with the forest and to reconcile with his ancient traditions.
Shipibos Stories
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El ordenador
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La vida da vueltas
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La escuela de la calle
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Chamanes
Chicama tells the story of César a recent graduate of a teacher's college who has a hard time getting a job, so he accepts a position in a rural school in small mountain town.
Chicama
Short film.
El Bosque de El Cañoncillo
A region in Peru scarred by corruption and crime, held hostage by criminal syndicates. In the midst of all this: a human conflict between two characters. A district attorney that remains hopeful to achieve changes in society and a young hit-man that doesn't have any other option but to kill to be able to live. What is the background of this young hit-man? How did he end up like this? What role does the law play in this complex plot of crimes and violence?
Casos Complejos
Young man wakes up in the street and is missing a shoe
Intento
A couple of theater students fall in love; a woman suffers a sudden illness; a watchman (guachimán) lives his loneliness; and an old amateur actor realizes his dream of performing in public. Each story follows its own path, but some of them converge in unexpected ways
Los actores
Short film.
El Paquete
Short film.
First Roll
A small film crew (cinematographer and sound director) goes in search of the traces of Tío Lino, a storyteller from the last century, whose stories transmitted orally have remained in the collective imagination of the residents of Contumaza