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Lima, Peru

Beto Benitez

Biography

Beto Benites (born c. 1970, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian actor, casting director, and producer based in Venezuela. He initially studied law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos before abandoning it for theater, training with Sara Joffré and spending ten years with the Grupo Yuyachkani theater group in Peru. He relocated to Venezuela in the 2000s, where he built his career in both on-screen roles and behind-the-scenes work as a casting director and producer. His most prominent role is Don Luis Sandoval, the drug lord, in Olivier Megaton's Colombiana (2011). His notable film credits include Colombiana (2011) (Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan), The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (2012) (Joaquín Cosío, Greisy Mena), Bad Hair (2013) (Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange Zambrano), Babysitting 2 (2015) (Philippe Lacheau, Alice David), Km 72 (2015), Paquete #3 (2015), Hermano (2010), Cyrano Fernández (2007), Macuro (2008), and more recently Zafari (2024) and Ramón y Ramón (2024).

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Colombiana

Colombiana

After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' death.

The Innocents

The Innocents

Cara de Ángel's sexuality is about to explode. His masculinity is constantly being tested, threatened by Colorete and the pack from his neighborhood. To prove his manhood, he joins a robbery; however, driven by his hormones and his attraction to Gabriela and Johnny, a punk singer, his plans will change.

Paquete 3

Paquete 3

El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from justice in his country and comes to Venezuela in search for a better future. After running into a gang of con-men who leave him penniless, he meets a peculiar group of Latin Americans who work for a gangster known as The Russian as hitmen. El Cholo is quickly trapped in a world of blood and ambition that makes him realize the true cost of life and death.

Babysitting 2

Babysitting 2

Franck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his friends, two girls and Sonya's grandmother leave to visit a cave, but everything goes wrong and their crazy adventures begin.

Brother

Brother

Brothers Daniel and Julio fight to escape a violent and poor Caracas neighborhood by playing soccer. Daniel wishes to go professional while Julio supports the family with dirty money. The opportunity of a lifetime comes when a talent scout invites them to the local football club. However, after their mother is killed in a shootout, each brother is forced to decide what's more important: family, revenge, or achieving their dreams.

Blodimery

Blodimery

This is a classic character in the history of cinema, he has a seemingly normal life in public but in private we discover a strange personality. He has a restaurant near the street market. At six in the morning the COOK goes out to look for some vegetables and fruits, but nearby he finds a sale of false teeth, a perfect set of false teeth and as if it were a simple oil change for trucks, he tries it in his mouth. With his impeccable teeth, he works in a basement - half surgical room, half kitchen - and is an expert in cutting and sewing meat and bones. The refrigerator is a factory of humanized domesticated animals for restaurant service.

3 Beauties

3 Beauties

Perla is obsessed with having a beauty queen in the family and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her dream come true.

Cyrano Fernández

Cyrano Fernández

Cyrano, Roxana and Cristian star in a love triangle that takes place in one of the most shocking urban scenarios in the world: the labyrinthine sides and stairs of a Venezuelan neighbourhood. The story of Cyrano Fernández is in some way that of all people: that of the abyss between what we really are and what we dream of.

Autoerotic

Autoerotic

Bruna is a conflicted teenager in search of exploring her sexuality. Through a dating website, she will start a relationship that overcomes her teenage spirit making her confront the freedom of her body, reconnecting with her true identity.

Quédate

Quédate

During a long bus trip Manuel, bored by the world around him hopes for something or someone to come and change his life, forever. When he sees Graciela he can almost see his wish come true. Over the trip Manuel struggles to talk to Graciela, as he sees his Thoughts haunting her like a ghost, whispering to her ear everything he wishes he could say.

The Itch

The Itch

A desperate man wakes up with an itch on his chest, anxious to find a cure, he embarks on a nightmarish odyssey in search of relief.

Lady Nazca

Lady Nazca

With the second World War looming and having lost everything before, Maria Reiche flees Germany and ends up in Peru. There, she tries to fit in an inhibited society for the sake of her lover Amy. But she only starts to find her true calling in life when she takes a trip to the desert of Nazca and stumbles upon mysterious Lines, drawn in the soil. Against all odds, against everyone, Maria ties her destiny to the Nazca lines, and takes on the mission to find their meaning. A journey that will throw her into tremendous trouble and danger - but also give her a sense of peace, at last, as she finally finds where she belongs, sweeping the desert.

Holiness

Holiness

In Sarapampa, preparations for the centenary of the Virgin of the Maize are marred by the visit of the Archbishop. His unfriendly attitude is generating growing discontent among the inhabitants, who remain united to protect the honor of their community.

I'll wait until they call my name

I'll wait until they call my name

A theatrical work that talks about the disappeared in the years of political violence in Peru, is taken to present Andean communities. In each place of presentation, the fiction will be confronted with reality.

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas

In the Mexican-Guatemalan border, young teenage lovers, Sabina and Jovany, both Hondurans, accidentally meet again after some years without seeing each other. She plans to get to the United States and dreams about being a great singer; he commits all the required atrocities to be accepted by the gang: la Mara Salvatrucha. Sabina and Jovany crashed with the most adverse conditions at the border like white slavery, the Mexican and American migratory agents Burrona and Patrick, the brothel matron Doña Lita, Don Nico the Mexican Consul in Tecún Umán, the drug trafficking networks, the army and la Mara Salvatrucha.