NON COMMENTS 1967/1970, France
Short, Fiction
Writer, Director and Producer
This is a film about the events which took place in Paris in May 1968. The film opens using images such as a glance in the street and barricades. This is a story of how a young photographer takes consciousness during(..)

UNA VEZ UNA ESPERANZA 1971/1973, Chile
Feature length documentary
Writer, Director and Producer
The development of the two political parties right and left during the three years of Salvador Allende’s Unidad Popular government. Also takes a look at Fidel Castro's visit to Chile and its repercussions.

CAMPESINO
Documentary
Director and Editor
A rural leader recounts his experiences in the political struggles, his imprisonment and eventual exile.

AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS 1971/1973, Chili - United States
Feature length documentary
Director and Editor
This was written by Reyes’ friend and companion Charlie Horman who was an American journalist and was later assassinated by Pinochet. The Costa Gravas Film « Missing » was based on the true story of Charlie Horman.(...)

THE PIONEERS 1974, Peru
Documentary
Writer, Director and Producer
This was about how the work of cameraman Manuel Trullen impacted Peruvian Cinema. Between 1920 and 1930 Trullen made films which included the first troupe of actors and the first technicians in Peru(...)

STREET THEATER (Théâtre de Rue) 1975, Pérou
Fiction / documentary
Co-directed : Reyes - Cooper - Escorel
Actor Jorge Acuña abandons conventional theatre and instead takes to staging mime acts in the streets. Despite being persecuted by the police who try to stop him from acting in the main square of Lima, Jorge Acuña (...)

JACINTO CUADROS
Collective creation
In 1976 Reyes orchestrated one of the most important anthropological experiences in Latin American cinema. He gave his cameras to a group of workers and helped them write and produce a 14 minute fiction film (...)

JACINTA OROCHI 1975/1976, Peru
Short, fiction
Writer, Director and Producer
A countrywoman is condemned to death for having killed a husband that beat her continuously. While in prison, the woman learns to read and write, a knowledge society had always denied her. When the time comes to(...)

TIEMPOS
Documentary
Writer, Director and Producer
Between public appearances and moments of reflection, Rosita and Alejandro Ascoy, the most famous duo of singers in Peru, narrate their music career from their beginnings, highlighting the most important (...)

TODO ARTE O VOZ GENIAL…
Documentary
Writer, Director and Producer
A group of puppeteers, with only their imagination for help, improvise and represent a show for the children of a shantytown.

FELIPE DE LOS POBRES 1976/1977, Pérou
Documentary
Writer, Director and Producer
The life and music of the greatest composer of all times: For the first time, a film crew penetrates a shantytown in search of time past and of one of the characters of Felipe Pinglo’s songs. An author persecuted by the (...)

THE OROZCO FAMILY 1977/1982, Peru
Feature, fiction
Wrote, directed, edited and composed the music
This is the story of the Orozco Family and it portrays an aspect of Peruvian social history. The film opens at the time of slavery, the story moves through the birth of agro-industrial capitalism and closes with the birth of the first (...)

NEANDERTHAL 1986, Peru - Argentina
Theatrical adaptation for TV
Adapted and directed
From his cell in a Latin American country, a prisoner suffers a delirium, and between shouts, monologues and apparitions of his torturer, his dialogues vary from acid humour to sober reflections.

BALTHAZAR 1987, Peru
Telefilm
Writer, Director and Producer
This is the story of the psychiatrist Balthazar Caravedo and his struggle to reform the methods used at a hospital run by the Charity Nuns which treated psychiatric patients. He was supported by his wife and fellow (...)

JUZAGADO DE INSTRUCCION 1987, Peru
Telefilm
Writer, Director and Producer
A beautiful model is accused of murdering her own child and condemned to a mental institution for 15 years. Sympathetic to the model’s plight, a young lawyer succeeds in getting the case reopened(...)

JAVIER PEREZ DE CUELLAR Peru - United States
50min documentary for TV
Writer, Director and Producer
This included the first Latin American television interview given by Javier Perez de Cuellar as he assumed the post of General Secretary of the United Nations. The interview focuses on the general aspects of his policy.

THE TRIAL 1988, Peru
Mini-series, four parts
Writer, Director and Producer
In 1931, for the first time in Peru, a popular candidate supported by a group called American Revolutionary Popular Alliance (APRA) stands for president. This political leader is called Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (...)

NAZCA : THE MYSTERY 1989, Peru
Drama mini-series 4 x 45min
Wrote, directed and edited
A team of actors and film technicians direct a promotional film utilising the gigantic figures of Nazca Pampas. This becomes a hallucinating experience when they should stay all night in the desert and the "Huaris"(...)

1989 making-of the Nazca series

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