Claudia Llosa (1976-) was born in Lima. Peru. She graduated in Film Direction in 1998 and specialized in New York University. In 2004, she received a grant of the Carolina Foundation and Casa de América cultural institution within the Course of Development of Hispanic Film projects. She also got a master degree in film and TV screenplay at The Art and Film School, TAI of Madrid..

It is during the years of study at the TAI and her work in Barcelona, when she wrote the screenplay of Madeinusa, which won the Coral award for Best Original Screenplay at  the International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema of Haban, Cuba (maybe, alongside the Sundance/NHK Award, the most desired prize for Latin American Filmmakers). Thanks to this prize, she could enter into partnership with the Spanish production company Wanda, and immersed herself in the production of a film that would made history.

Madeinusa, her first work, is the story of a little girl that lives in a remote village of the Peruvian mountain range. According to the village tradition represented in the film, its inhabitant believe that since 3 p.m. on Good Friday - date that mark the day that Christ died crucified-  there is no sin on earth, since god is dead and could not see them. In this way, they can do anything they want without remorse until Monday morning, when everything returns to normality. The film focuses on the young girl Madeinusa and his family, as well as on the small village mayor and his sister. The story begins with the arrival of young man from Lima called Salvador (Savior), who starts to challenge tradition.

The second feature by Claudia Llosa, La teta asustada, is the story of young woman called  Fausta who suffers an illness known as la Teta Asustada (Frightened Tit), an illness that passes on to the babies of the women raped during the war against the terrorist group Sendero Luminoso in Peru. War is over, but Fausta lives to recall it, since the “the fear disease” has stolen her soul. The unexpected death of her mother obliges her to face it fears and the secret within her. She has put a potato into her vagina as protection, because only its stink protects her from the disgusting rapists. La teta asustada relates an attempt to blossom, a journey to the fear to freedom.

This young filmmaker career got a tremendous impulse, when her film La teta asustada won the Golden Lion at the Berlin International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious festivals of the world. In spite that her career in film has been meteoric, the director has said “In Fact my training as filmmaker was atypical, I did not approach filmmaking like other film buffs or lovers of Godard do, it was filmmaking that came into my life without previous notice, as it were the only option of my destiny, something that really was not that way, but that is how I remember it. My training as a director was built in another way, an autodidactic one, step by step, on the set, where people believe it is really built, even when I do not think so. If I would have been younger, and rich I had been studied in London. Any way, I am lucky to tell that I am happy with the way things turned out and I tried to reach them.”

After her successful second feature, the filmmaker began to work in two new projects: “I am pondering the idea of my next screenplay, which is not clear enough to have a title; but there are a thousand kinds of other parallel projects, being the most important a TV program that would be called Anagnorisis, I am writing with a colleague (Oscar Digón) in Barcelona and a possible TV movie that has not a title yet.”