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With professor Rossana Díaz Costa, writer and director of "Un mundo para Julius."

Julius — an upper-class child in 1950s Lima, Peru — lives in a mansion with his aristocratic family and a bevy of servants. Little by little, Julius loses his innocence as he discovers, but never understands, a home and a world full of inequalities and injustices. The film is based on Alfredo Bryce Echenique’s “Un Mundo para Julius,” a 1970 book considered one of the most important literary works in Peru. Although the film is set in the past, the racism, discrimination, abuse of power, and sexism shown in “A World for Julius” remain sad realities not just in Peru and Latin America but throughout the world.

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Rossana Díaz Costa (Lima, 1970) is a writer and filmmaker. She has a BA in Linguistics and Literature, career she studied at the Universidad Católica del Perú and a PhD in Literature Studies (University of La Coruña, Spain). She also studied Scriptwriting and Direction at the Film School of La Coruña and finished her Screenwriting studies at the Escuela de Cinematografía de la Comunidad de Madrid - ECAM (Film School of Madrid).

Her stories have won several awards in Peru and in Spain (Lituma Award, Federico García Lorca Award, among others) and have been included in different anthologies. Her book Los Olvidados (no los de Buñuel, los míos)/ The forgotten (not Buñuel’s, but mine) won second place in the National Narrative Award in 2005 (Peru). It was published in 2006 and in a second edition in 2009. One of her stories was selected for the exhibition “Southern Eyes. 21st Century Visual Arts and Literature”, presented by the European Parliament (Brussels).

Her short documentary En Camino/On the way (1996) won the “One World” award of the BBC of London. Her first feature fiction film, Viaje a Tombuctú/ Trip to Timbuktu (2013) has won many awards as Best Fiction Film, besides participating in the Official Selection of different festivals in the world. In November 2021, she released in Peru her second feature fiction film, Un mundo para Julius/ A world for Julius, which is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by the Peruvian writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique. The film has been successfully released in 20 countries and it has won awards of Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress.

Besides, she teaches Literature and Film courses at two universities in Lima.