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Melina León(II)

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Melina León
Melina León is a Peruvian director based in Lima and New York. Her debut feature, Canción sin Nombre (Song without a Name), premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight 2019, becoming the first Peruvian film by a female filmmaker to be invited to Cannes. The film is nominated for Best Iberoamerican Feature at the Goya Awards 2022 and was Peru's Oscar® Entry for Best International Feature.

Song without a Name has been selected to over 100 international film festivals winning more than 40 awards including Best Director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Cinevision Award for Best Emerging Director at the Munich Film Festival.

Set in Peru, in 1988, the film is inspired by a true account of child trafficking originally reported by Ismael Leon, her father.

An MFA film graduate of Columbia University, her short film El Paraíso de Lili (Lili's Paradise), also set in Peru in 1988, made its international debut at the 47th New York Film Festival.
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Melina León
Melina León

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Song Without a Name (2019)
Song Without a Name
7.0
  • Director
  • 2019
Natalia Roca in El Paraíso de Lili (2009)
El Paraíso de Lili
7.8
Short
  • Director
  • 2009
Girl with a Walkman
Short
  • Director
  • 2007
Emigrant
7.8
  • Producer
  • 2009

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Director

  • Song Without a Name (2019)
    Song Without a Name
    • Director
    • 2019
  • Natalia Roca in El Paraíso de Lili (2009)
    El Paraíso de Lili
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2009
  • Girl with a Walkman
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2007
  • Una 45 para los gastos del mes
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2000

Writer

  • Song Without a Name (2019)
    Song Without a Name
    • Writer
    • 2019
  • Natalia Roca in El Paraíso de Lili (2009)
    El Paraíso de Lili
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    • Short
    • 2009
  • Girl with a Walkman
    • screenplay
    • Short
    • 2007

Editor

  • La distancia del tiempo (2021)
    La distancia del tiempo
    • Editor
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Song Without a Name (2019)
    Song Without a Name
    • Editor
    • 2019
  • Natalia Roca in El Paraíso de Lili (2009)
    El Paraíso de Lili
    • Editor
    • Short
    • 2009
  • Girl with a Walkman
    • Editor
    • Short
    • 2007

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