Alfonso Gumucio
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
He studied filmmaking at the Institut des Hautes Études
Cinématographiques (IDHEC) and the University of Vincennes, in Paris.
Back in Bolivia he directed a number of film and video documentaries on
cultural and social issues. He went in exile after the military coup of
1980, and continued his work in Nicaragua and Mexico. He returned to
Bolivia en 1983 and directed, along with Eduardo Barrios, a UNESCO
production on the miners community radio stations: "The voice of the
mines". In 1984 he did a documentary on a Bolivian poet: Primo
Castrillo, poeta (1984), awarded with the Second Prize at the
International Super 8 Film Festival of Montreal. In 1988 he directed
Bolivia: Union Rights, aired by the Dutch television.