Javier Corcuera

Javier Corcuera (Lima, Peru, 1967)

Director and screenwriter. Graduate in Image Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is a founding partner of DOCMA and is co-director of the Sahara Film Festival.

Among his films are “The Back of the World”, which includes three stories about Human Rights violations in the US, Turkey and Peru and which won the International Critics Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival; “Winter in Bagdad” filmed during the North American occupation in Iraq, winner of the Malaga Film Festival and Best Documentary Film at the Los Angeles Latin Film Festival; “The guerrilla of memory”, a film that portrays a forgotten part of the history of Spain: that of those who refused to accept defeat after the civil war was over and continued fighting in the mountains of Spain against Franco; “Invisibles”, a collective film that won the Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy for Best Documentary Film; or “I am still – Kachkaniraqmi”, a film that travels through the worlds of Peru through the lives of its musicians.

He participated in Medialab Madrid within “banquete_03. Encounter: Documentary cinema and social networks” (November 13 and 14, 2003), with the premiere of the documentary “Condemned to the Corridor.” Premiere and round table with: Javier Corcuera, Amnesty International and Thomas Miller Support Group.