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Filmmaker · Peru

Luis Figueroa

Died in 2012

Luis Figueroa Yábar was born in Cuzco on 11 October 1928, the son of the painter and photographer Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar. Trained at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima in the late forties, he was at first a painter and photographer. A founding member of the Cuzco film club in the mid-fifties, he belonged to the movement that Georges Sadoul called the Cuzco school, and devoted dozens of films to the Andean world. The Ministry of Culture honoured him in 2011; he died in Lima on 18 March 2012, aged eighty-three.

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