Casting Directors

Here is how this works in practice. Casting for a production in Peru draws on a growing acting community shaped by Norma Martínez's decades as actress, director, and casting authority, and by the talent pools that Claudia Llosa built around for Milk of Sorrence — her Oscar-nominated, Berlinale Golden Bear-winning feature — and Madeinusa, alongside the casts Francisco Lombardi assembled for La Boca del Lobo and Caídos del Cielo, the ensembles Salvador del Solar directed in Magallanes, and the Aymara-language principal cast Óscar Catacora drew from for Wiñaypacha, the first feature shot entirely in Aymara.

Here is the short of it. Our casting partners include Talent Group Peru, Magdalena Producciones, Sandra Plevisani casting, and the independent agents working out of Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro who supply principal and supporting talent to Tondero Producciones, Big Bang Films, Inca Producciones, Cinesphere, Maretazo Cine, La Soga, and Origami Studio productions. Principal pools draw on ENSAD's National School of Dramatic Art graduates, PUCP-trained performers, and the Lima independent theatre community around the Teatro La Plaza and Teatro de Lucía circuits, with sessions recorded for remote callback review.

Sessions run at professional casting rooms across Lima, Cusco, Arequipa, Trujillo, and Iquitos, with self-tape pipelines, live video auditions for remote directors, and full recording of in-person reads for callback.

Here is the breakdown. Bilingual Spanish–English casting is core to the practice: we shortlist actors with real coastal, Andean, Amazonian, and Lima limeño accents, and we extend the search to Quechua-fluent performers — the Aymara-speaking principal cast Óscar Catacora drew from for Wiñaypacha shows the depth ready for Indigenous-language work — alongside Afro-Peruvian talent from Chincha and the southern coast for productions structured under Ibermedia and the bilateral co-production treaties with Argentina, Spain, and Brazil.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Background and crowd-scene casting flows through our AD network, with specialty extras — Quechua-speaking highland communities for Sacred Valley shoots, alpaca-herding supporting cast for Andean sequences, Amazon-basin Indigenous communities set up through community-consent protocols, and period-trained dancers for colonial and pre-Columbian builds — sourced through the long-standing rosters that supply Cinesphere, Tondero, and the DAFO-supported regional offices. ANACTP actors' association contracting and Ministerio de Cultura compliance are built into our agreements so principal-cast engagements deliver cleanly through to Festival de Lima at PUCP and Premios Luces submission windows.