Óscar Catacora

Óscar Catacora (18 August 1987 – 26 November 2021) was a Peruvian film director, screenwriter, producer and cinematographer.

Two years later he entered the Professional School of Arts at the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno (UNA) to specialise in Theatre, but eventually dropped out to enlist in the Peruvian Army.

[3] In 2011 he began studying Social Communication Sciences at the UNA with the aim of specialising in audiovisual production.

[3] That same year Catacora won a grant of 400,000 soles from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture in the National Film Competition to carry out his project Wiñaypacha.

[6] In 2018, he again obtained funding from the Ministry of Culture that would allow him to make his second feature film, a historical film about the indigenous rebellion that took place in southern Peru in 1780 and whose presentation is scheduled to coincide with the Peruvian Bicentennial celebration.