Biography

Daniel Rodríguez Risco is a Peruvian director, writer and producer whose films border on the fantastic and are imbued with a mysterious quality that is disquieting.

Several of his films have been critical and box office successes, won awards in prestigious international festivals, and have been acquired by HBO, Netflix, Fox, Canal Plus, among others. In 1997 he founded Cinecorp, a film production company, which name changed to El Colchón Films in 2021, establishing itself as an innovative force in the film industry.

His first short film, El colchón (The Mattress), received a Special Mention at the Cartagena IFF and the award for Best Short Film at Conacine (Peru). His next short, Triunfador (The Winner), was selected at the Festival du Court Métrages at Clermont-Ferrand and was distributed internationally by Canal-Plus. He received a scholarship to study an MFA in Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After that, he directed Páramo (Moor), based on a short story by Alberto Moravia. His fourth short, El Diente de Oro (The Gold Tooth), won the Jury Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, presided by Theo Angelopolous. Cuellos Almidonados (Starched Collars), shot during the pandemic, won Santa Lucía's Prize for Best Short Film F3 in Bogoshorts (Colombia), and Best Cinematography in the ÉCU, The European Independent Film Festival (France).

His medium length film, Trilogía Muda (Silent Trilogy) won Best Film at the NewBorn Short Film Festival (Germany) in 2022.

He has directed six feature films. El Acuarelista (The Watercolorist) was awarded a grant from the Global Film Initiative. His next film, El Vientre (The Womb), a coproduction with Explora Films (Spain), earned him a Best Director nomination at the Vancouver IFF. In 2016, he released the films No Estamos Solos (We Are Not Alone) and Siete Semillas (Seven Seeds), starring Javier Cámara. His film Cuadrilátero (Quadrilateral) won the Special Jury Award and the Youth Jury Award COMUNDO in the Fribourg IFF in 2024.

He was also Associate Producer of Altiplano, a European co-production which premiered at Cannes; and, together with Wanda Films (Spain), he co-produced the documentary Chavín de Huántar, el Teatro del Más Allá (Chavin de Huantar, the Theatre Beyond), which premiered at the National Geographic Channel.

He is currently working on the post production of La costurera (The seamstress), starring Mayella Lloclla, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Luis Gnecco. The film is set to premiere in 2026.
- IMDb mini biography by: Daniel Rodríguez Risco