Nicolás Carrasco (Peru, 1990) is a filmmaker, producer, film critic, programmer and distributor based in Lima. He was involved in the production of the full-length films Videofilia (y otros síndromes virales) (2015), Masabu (2016), La Migración (2018), El AntiFaz (2018), La Danza de Los Mirlos (2022), Punku (2024), Estados Generales (2024) and Manifesta. These films have been screened in spaces such as FIDLab, Ventana Sur, Porto/Post/Doc Meetings, MECAS Cine Casi Hecho, Málaga Work in Progress, WIP Mar del Plata, WIP Florianópolis, the Salón de Productores of the Cali Festival, the DocMontevideo Meetings, SANFIC Industria, FICVIÑA Industria Docs, BIFFF Market and Translab and also internationally at festivals such as the Mar del Plata, BAFICI, Black Canvas, Ambulante, Viña del Mar, Radical, ABYCINE, In-Edit Barcelona and In-Edit Brazil. He was a student of the Locarno Critics Academy 2015, Buenos Aires Talents 2016, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar 2019, 2021 and 2022, and RAW: Residencias Arché→MRG//Work 2020 for Film Criticism and Research.
He was assistant director and production coordinator for Videofilia (y otros síndromes virales) (Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)), by Juan Daniel Fernández Molero, winner of the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015) and selected to represent Peru in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards (2016). He was also assistant director of the documentary Lima Grita (2018), by Dana Bonilla and Ximena Valdivia, and the hybrid documentary La Chucha perdida de los Incas (2019), by renowned Peruvian artist ‘Huanchaco’.
As director, his short films Asunción (2016), Atlántida (2019) and Carta desde Prospect Park (2019) were screened in spaces such as San Francisco Latino, Casa de América in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires, NOFLASH Video Show in New York, Miradas del Sur, Trujillo, Ancash, Lima Alterna, Corriente, and ULTRAcinema in Mexico.
He was an independent film programmer for the Central University in Bogotá, Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Galería SERES, Transcinema, MUTA, the Artists in (R)evolution Collective, Corriente, Frontera Sur and the 4th World Cinephilia Week in Córdoba, Argentina. As a film critic he has worked at IndieWire, Desistfilm, Cinencuentro, Otros Cines Perú and for film magazines La vida útil (Argentina) and Ventana Indiscreta (Peru). He is co-author of the books Latinoamérica Radical (2019), published by the Bolivian Radical Film Festival, and El cine de Pier Paolo Pasolini: En los extramuros de la Historia (2023) and El cine de Jean-Luc Godard: Rupturas y aperturas (2023), both published by the University of Lima.
In 2016 he founded the independent film production and distribution company Walden Films. The films in his distribution catalogue have been included in the programmes of festivals such as Berlinale, Mar del Plata, BAFICI, Jihlava, Guadalajara, Valdivia, Palm Springs, La Habana, Lima Independiente, Dobra, Frontera Sur and Ann Arbor.
He is currently shooting the full-length documentary Turbios Trópicos, by Renzo Alva, and is working on the full-length films El aparte, by Ezequiel Acuña; Los espacios que habitamos, by Dana Bonilla; Vargas, by Álvaro Luque; and Je vous salue, Perú, by Yaela Gottlieb, as well as shooting his fourth short film as director.
Last update of this profile: 2024
