Enrique Cornejo Villanueva

Enrique Cornejo Villanueva, a native of Arequipa, owned a well-known shoe factory, the Record company, and had no experience of cinema when he financed out of his own pocket, in 1927, a silent feature film that he directed and in which he played the lead role. According to the historian Ricardo Bedoya, he announced a school of film art the same year, afterwards shot only footage for a documentary on the southern borders that was never finished, and died in Lima in 1992.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaLuis PardoEnrique Cornejo Villanueva · 1927Cinema