José María Velasco Maidana
Deceased Person
1899 – 1989
Who was José María Velasco Maidana?
José María Velasco Maidana was a Bolivian film director, composer, conductor, actor, painter and dancer.
He is known for "his ballets and symphonic works, a number of which embrace national/native themes", but also for his films. He entered the cinema industry "at the very start of Bolivian fiction film production". His first film, The Prophecy of the Lake, was made in 1925, on the heels of Bolivia's first ever fiction feature, Pedro Sambarino's Corazón Aymara. The Prophecy of the Lake was a contemporary love story between an Aymara man and the daughter of a white landowner. The film was censored, for its "social critique" and "because it featured the love between a native man and a white woman", and was never shown. Velasco Maidana subsequently started his own production company, Urania. His next two films, Wara Wara and Hacia la Gloria were released in cinema as feature films, and Wara Wara remains "the only known surviving work from Bolivia's silent-film era". He also made short documentary films, "before returning to music".
From then on, he worked exclusively on music, and also left Bolivia to work abroad. Among his notable ballets is Amerindia.
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