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Luis Llosa#Career

{{short description|Peruvian film director (born 1951)}}

{{family name hatnote|Llosa|Urquidi|lang=Spanish}}

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| image = Presentación libro Luis Llosa - FIL 2024 (11) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Llosa at the FIL LIMA in 2024

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1951}}

| birth_place = Lima, Peru

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| occupation = Film director and producer

| notable_works = Sniper
The Specialist
Anaconda

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Luis Llosa Urquidi (born 1951) is a Peruvian film director. He is best known for his feature films Sniper (1993), The Specialist (1994), and Anaconda (1997).

Career

Luis Llosa was originally a film critic.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-01-28-ti-2138-story.html|title=ENTERTAINMENT: Singer Guerra Back in Groove After Surgery|last=Kellner|first=Elena|work=Los Angeles Times|date=1993-01-28|access-date=2014-02-14}} He is known for his early Peruvian work, English-language exploitation films made for producer Roger Corman, and bigger-budget American films.{{cite book|title=Latsploitation, Latin America, and Exploitation Cinema|chapter=Roger Corman Dis/covers Peru|last=Middents|first=Jeffrey|editor1-last=Ruétalo|editor1-first=Victoria|editor2-last=Tierney|editor2-first=Dolores|pages=55–69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JgqRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA55|publisher=Routledge|year=2009|isbn=9781135848774}} His best-known film, Anaconda, stars Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, and Eric Stoltz. Anaconda was nominated for multiple Razzie Awards, including worst director,{{cite web|url=http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=37|title=1997 Archive|work=Razzies.com|accessdate=2014-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426070604/http://razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=37|archive-date=2012-04-26|url-status=dead}} but grossed $136 million worldwide{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=anaconda.htm|title=Anaconda|work=Box Office Mojo|accessdate=2014-02-13}} and became a cult film.{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/ianacondai-64900|title=Anaconda|last=Tobias|first=Scott|work=The A.V. Club|date=2011-11-10|accessdate=2014-02-13}}

He founded Iguana Productions, which produces Peruvian films and telenovelas such as Escándalo, Torbellino and Latin Lover.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2001/scene/markets-festivals/llosa-fast-becoming-peruvian-go-to-guy-1117795709/|title=Llosa fast becoming Peruvian go-to guy|last=Chauvin|first=Lucien|work=Variety|date=2001-03-21|accessdate=2014-02-13}}

Personal life

Llosa was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru.{{cite news|url=http://www.elmundo.es/metropoli/2006/03/03/cine/1141340403.html|title= La dictadura de Trujillo se metía hasta en las alcobas|last=Estrada|first=Javier|work=El Mundo|date=2006-03-03|accessdate=2014-02-13|language=Spanish}} He is a cousin of Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2006/film/news/llosas-in-town-to-feast-on-the-goat-1117937943/|title=Llosas in town to feast on the ‘Goat’|author=|work=Variety|date=2006-02-11|accessdate=2014-02-13}} and his niece is film director Claudia Llosa.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2009/biz/news/foreign-pics-play-oscar-nom-bingo-1118009588/|title=Foreign pics play Oscar-nom bingo|author=|work=Variety|date=2009-10-05|accessdate=2014-02-13}}

Filmography

class="wikitable"
Year

!Title

!Director

!Producer

!Writer

1987

| Hour of the Assassin

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

1989

| Crime Zone

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

rowspan=3|1993

| Sniper

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

Fire on the Amazon

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

1994

| The Specialist

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

1997

| Anaconda

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

2005

| The Feast of the Goat

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{yes}}

2020

| Dueños del Tiempo

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

| {{yes}}

2024

| Tattoos in Memory

| {{yes}}

| {{no}}

| {{no}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|id=0515891|name=Luis Llosa}}
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217153258/http://iguanaproducciones.com/ |title=Iguana Producciones website |date=December 17, 2014}} {{in lang|es}}

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Category:Living people

Luis, Llosa

Category:1951 births

Category:Mass media people from Lima

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