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Peruvian filmmaker Melina León boosts Peru’s film industry with strong female leads
With Peru’s current political upheaval as a backdrop, award-winning filmmaker Melina León is developing new projects. Her latest feature film will tell the difficult story of a young Indigenous woman living with epilepsy.
New indie movie ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ looks at disaster through child’s eyes
In Benh Zeitlin’s first film, he transports audiences to a Louisiana fairy tale land eerily similar to pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans. The movie follows the life of a 6-year-old, as the life she knows is built up and then torn apart.
