Rossana Lacayo

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Rossana Lacayo
Born (1956-09-03) 3 September 1956 (age 67)
Managua, Nicaragua
NationalityNicaraguan
Alma mater Duke University
Occupation(s)Photographer, filmmaker, producer
Years activeSince 1982
Website gotafilmsnicaragua.weebly.com

Rossana Lacayo de Herguedas known professionally as Rossana Lacayo (born 3 September 1956) is a Nicaraguan photographer, scriptwriter, and filmmaker. [1] She is considered a pioneer of Nicaraguan cinema as stated by the Nicaraguan Cultural Institute. [2] In 2003 she founded Gota Films (Nicaragua) an independent film company. She is a member of ANCI (Nicaraguan Association of Cinematography, in Spanish Asociación Nicaragüense de Cine). Lacayo resides in Nicaragua with her family.

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Education and professional career

Rossana Lacayo was born in Managua but she studied high school and graduated from the Madeira School (1975) located in Virginia, USA. After high school she studied at Duke University, in North Carolina, USA and graduated with a degree in Economy (1979). In 2010 she graduated with a degree in Documentary Production (in Spanish, Documental de Creación) from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, located in Mexico. [3] Although she studied economy she has stated that she was interested in photography since she was a preteen and she was given a camera. During her students university years she participated as photographer in her school's newspaper.

Early in the 1980s she returned to Nicaraguan and got a job as the official photographer of the newly formed Nicaraguan Ministry of Culture (in Spanish, Ministerio de Cultura de Nicaragua. In 1982 she traveled for a short period to El Salvador to cover the war as photographer and she has stated that she almost lost her life. [4] In 1983 she was transferred to the Nicaraguan Institute of Cinematography INCINE (in Spanish, Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine) where she started working in the documentary production department and quickly became its chief.

According to the Nicaraguan film historian, Karly Gaitán Morales, it was in 1982 when Lacayo started to work as a professional filmmaker, [5] when as part of INCINE, she met and worked with international movie directors like the Chilean Miguel Littín. She acquires extensive experience while working with filmmakers and actors from Mexico, France, and Cuba. Her first documentary as director was Estos sí pasarán (1984) a documentary that participated in the film festivals in Canada and Sweden. The film was also selected for the 58th Edition (1985) for the Academy Awards in Hollywood.

Even though Lacayo has worked most of her life as a filmmaker, she never abandoned photography, an activity that she considers her passion and that she maintained during the 1980s while working at INCINE. She shot a large number of movie stills from all the projects in which she was involved. In early 2000s Lacayo started to shoot photos of the daily lives of the people that live in La Chureca which is the dumpster in Managua and the largest of Nicaragua. In 2012 Lacayo was selected by the World Bank to participate, with four of her photos of the dumpster, in an exhibit titled El Cambio in Washington, DC. [6] The following year she made a documentary on the same subject titled San Francisco de La Chureca (2013). [7]

Recognition

On 1 March 2008, Rossana Lacayo received Order of the Cultural Independence Rubén Darío for her work as a pioneer of the Nicaraguan cinema [8] – an award given by the Nicaraguan government to outstanding individuals.

Awards

Complete filmography

YearTitleNotes
1983Alfabetización en NicaraguaMember production team at INCINE
1984Haciendo un DocumentalScriptwriter and director- vídeo (INCINE)
1984Estos sí PasaránScriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE) – selected for the 58th Edition (1985) Academy Award
1985Semblanzas de Julio CortázarDirector – video documentary (INCINE)
1985Hablemos a Calzón QuitadoScriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE-TV Canada)
1986Madre Sana Niño SanoScriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE-TV Canadá)
1986Leche MaternaScriptwriter and directora – documentary (INCINE-TV Canadá)
1988Leonel VanegasScriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE-TV Canadá)
1988Escuchemos a las MujeresScriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE)
1988Vida en el Amor (Ernesto Cardenal)Scriptwriter and director – documentary (INCINE)
1988Un secreto para mí solaScriptwriter and director (INCINE)
1988Leoncio SáenzScriptwriter and director – documentary
1991Ana ClaraScriptwriter and director– short film (Castaldi)
1999Uniendo esperanzasScriptwriter and director – documentary (Castaldi)
2003Verdades OcultasScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2004Raúl y EmirScriptwriter and director – short film (Gota Films)
2006Brisa NocturnaScriptwriter and director – short film (Gota Films)
2007EquívocoScriptwriter and director – short film (Gota Films)
2007YCAZADirector – documentary (Gota Films)
2008DaysiryScriptwriter and director (Gota Films)
2008El diálogo permanenteDirector – documentary (Gota Films)
2008Festival de poesía de GranadaDirector – documentary (Gota Films)
2008Minguito el Señor de los MilagrosScriptwriter and director – documental (Gota Films)
2009A quién le importaScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2009KAOS ExperimentalScriptwriter and director – video digital (Gota Films)
2009Belén en NicaraguaScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2009Funerales en el PorvenirScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2010Paraíso PerdidoScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2011De macho a machoScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2011Tepoz – MagicScriptwriter and director – short film (Iberdoc-México)
2011El valor de las mujeres: la lucha por el derecho de la tierraScriptwriter and director – documentary (2009), new edition (2011), (Gota Films)
2012LaberintoScriptwriter and director – short film (Gota Films)
2012PikinerasScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)
2013Sembrando esperanzasDirector – documentary (Gota Films)
2013San Francisco en La ChurecaScriptwriter and director – documentary (Gota Films)

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