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Filmmaker · Peru

Antonio Wong Rengifo

Died in 1965

Antonio Wong Rengifo was born in Iquitos on 5 March 1910, the son of a Chinese man settled in the city and a mother from Moyobamba. Sent to Europe in 1924, he returned to Iquitos in 1927 and opened his studio there, Foto Wong, where he practised both photography and cinema; he filmed the Putumayo front in 1932 and the funeral of Sergeant Lores the following year. In 1957, a fire destroyed his studio while he was shooting a film intended for an international fair. A musician, journalist and sportsman, he also worked in tourism and died in 1965, aged fifty-five.

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