Empatia Cine’s Alvaro Olmos Torrico Centers Quechua Midwives in Ventana Sur Title ‘The Condor Daughter’

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Holly Jones With an eye on indigenous communities and the women that dutifully anchor them, Bolivian multi-hyphenate Álvaro Olmos Torrico brings his introspective second feature, “The Condor Daughter” (“La hija cóndor”), to Montevideo for Ventana Sur’s Copia Final showcase, touting the fiction prodction at this year’s market, which runs Dec.

2-6. Via Bolivia’s Empatia Cine (“The Visitor”), Olmos Torrico is producing budding Bolivian helmer Yashira Jordán’s 2021 Ventana Sur buzz title “Diamond,” (“Diamante”) alongside Buenos Aires-based Maravilla Cine, and has directed several documentaries leading up to his 2019 full-length debut feature “Wiñay,” all films that allow his protagonists’ self-reflection to spill into rich on-screen narratives. “I find internal journeys very inspiring, they represent the perfect form of conflict for me.

The sensitivity of my characters is my own,” Olmos Torrico told Variety. “I question the role of people in time and space, mainly female characters – almost always inspired by my mother.

Internal journey’s end, in the best cases, in great evolution and, therefore, profound change. I’m interested in exploring those changes and that search for redemption.” Produced by Olmos Torrico at Empatia Cine with co-production credits to Cecilia Sueiro and Diego Sarmiento Pagan at Peru’s Ayara Producciones and Federico Moreira at Uruguay’s LaMayor Cine, “The Condor Daughter” follows a young Quechua midwife, Clara, who lives in a remote mountain village, her voice used to soothe those in labor.