Bolivia’s Alvaro Olmos Torrico, identified for his award-winning “The Condor Daughter,” is prepping his third characteristic, “Chicha Fantasy” (“Fantasía Chicha”), tapping Peru’s Ayara Prods. to co-produce alongside his Bolivia-based Empatia Cinema. He’s additionally in co-production talks with Uruguayan and European corporations.
“The Condor Daughter” lately competed on the Alternativa Movie Competition in Medellín, Colombia the place lead actress Marisol Vallejos represented the pic. It follows Clara (Vallejos), a teen Quechua midwife who leaves her distant group to pursue her dream of turning into a singer.
Impressed by actual occasions, “Chicha Fantasy” revolves round 15-year-old Mirelli, a Quechua shepherd lady, who aspires to observe in her sister Martina’s footsteps who sings within the band Fantasia Chicha, which travels throughout the Andean communities with music that mixes cumbia and different folkloric genres with digital music. However when Mirelli finds her sister lifeless below unusual circumstances, she refuses to just accept the official model and joins the band to unearth the reality, endangering her life within the course of.
The time period chicha refers to a mode of cumbia, a preferred Colombian music style, that was tailored and remodeled in Peru within the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s, incorporating electrical guitars, synthesizers, and components of rock. This fusion creates a particular, energetic sound that has develop into deeply rooted within the Bolivian cultural scene, particularly in city areas.
“Personally, I’ve grown up with a ardour for and a powerful dedication to the ‘chicha world’ that has surrounded my life: the music, the celebration and the interpretation of the modern, the mixing of previous and current inside sure environments and cultures are themes that deeply interact me,” stated Olmos Torrico, including: “That is additionally mirrored in my latest movie ‘The Condor Daughter.’ I don’t search to romanticize the ‘chicha world’ however fairly to discover it intimately, to painting its needs and contradictions.”
In accordance with Olmos Torrico, the venture has participated within the BAL-LAB laboratory of the Biarritz Latin American Movie Competition, the place it acquired an award for the interpretation of the screenplay into French, in addition to monetary help from Help Audiovisuelle (France) within the type of cinematic gear companies. It additionally simply participated in Cinema in Developmentin Cinelatino Toulouse 2026.
Olmos Torrico, Iris Ocampo, Diego Sarmiento and Cecilia Sueiro function producers.
“Chicha Fantasy” aligns with the type of tasks that Olmos Torrico’s Empatia Cinema has centered on, movies with an Indigenous perspective and a reconnection with native languages, primarily Quechua and Aymara. Its tasks suggest a dialogue between the fashionable world and conventional tradition by modern and trustworthy approaches by native filmmakers.
Among the many most notable tasks in its filmography are “San Antonio” by Olmos Torrico (a documentary, Bafici 2011), “The Customer” by Martín Boulocq (winner of a screenplay award on the 2022 Tribeca Movie Competition), “The Ones from Beneath” by Alejandro Quiroga (finest efficiency at Mar del Plata 2022), “The Condor Daughter,” which premiered on the Toronto Movie Competition in 2025 and scored finest movie ultimately 12 months’s Biarritz América Latina 2025, and “Diamante” by Yashira Jordán, at the moment in post-production.
‘The Condor Daughter’
