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Juan Carlos Torrico

Juan Carlos Torrico is a Peruvian director and screenwriter. In 1985 he wrote and directed a musical comedy devoted to a chicha band, then in 1987 made a second film about the singer Vico and his group Karicia, which he regards as the first of a Peruvian popular cinema. In 2021, with the producer María Ruiz Vivanco, he won the Ministry of Culture's restoration competition for this second film, re-released in cinemas in 2022. No date of birth is known for him.

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