Casting Directors

Casting for a production in Peru draws on a growing acting community. It was shaped by Norma Martínez and her decades as an actress, director, and casting authority. It also draws on the talent pools that Claudia Llosa built around Milk of Sorrence — her Oscar-nominated, Berlinale Golden Bear-winning feature — and Madeinusa. The same community supplied the casts Francisco Lombardi assembled for La Boca del Lobo and Caídos del Cielo, and the ensembles Salvador del Solar directed in Magallanes. It also gave Óscar Catacora the Aymara-language principal cast for Wiñaypacha, the first feature shot fully in Aymara.

Our casting partners include Talent Group Peru, Magdalena Producciones, Sandra Plevisani casting, and the independent agents based in Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro. These agents supply principal and supporting talent to Tondero Producciones, Big Bang Films, Inca Producciones, Cinesphere, Maretazo Cine, La Soga, and Origami Studio shoots. 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. Sessions are recorded for remote callback review.

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

Bilingual Spanish–English casting sits at the core of the practice. We shortlist actors with real coastal, Andean, Amazonian, and Lima limeño accents. The search also reaches Quechua-fluent performers. The Aymara-speaking principal cast Óscar Catacora drew from for Wiñaypacha shows how deep the talent runs for Indigenous-language work. We also source Afro-Peruvian talent from Chincha and the southern coast for shoots set up under Ibermedia and the bilateral co-production treaties with Argentina, Spain, and Brazil.

Background and crowd-scene casting flows through our AD network, which also covers specialty extras. These include Quechua-speaking highland communities for Sacred Valley shoots, alpaca-herding supporting cast for Andean sequences, Amazon-basin Indigenous communities arranged through community-consent protocols, and period-trained dancers for colonial and pre-Columbian builds. We source them through 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 run cleanly through to Festival de Lima at PUCP and Premios Luces submission windows.