Ricardo Maldonado

Ricardo Maldonado is a Peruvian film and advertising director and producer. A graduate of the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University (NYU), he began his career in advertising, directing commercials for well-known brands in the United States and Latin America. In 2011, he gained international recognition for directing the acclaimed documentary for the "Marca Perú" (Peru Brand) campaign, "Peru, Nebraska". He made the leap to feature-length narrative film in 2013 by directing ¡Asu Mare!, which became the biggest box-office phenomenon in the history of Peruvian cinema. He subsequently directed its sequels, ¡Asu Mare! 2 (2015) and El Gran León (2017), as well as the comedy Calichín (2016).