Juan Daniel F. Molero

Juan Daniel Fernández Molero (born July 22, 1987) is a Peruvian filmmaker. He is known for his avant-garde films Reminiscences, Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes) (2015), which won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Punku (2025), which premiered in the Forum section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

Career Fernández was born in Lima in 1987, he studied for two years at the University of Cinema in Buenos Aires (FUC), was a student in the Trainee Project for Young Film Critics of the Rotterdam Film Festival, and in the Talent Campus of Buenos Aires (2010) and the Berlinale (2011).

In 2008, he founded Tiempo Libre, a film production company through which he also distributes films in cultural circuits and organizes film workshops.

In 2009, F. Molero collected old recordings and home video archives to create Reminiscences, a documentary feature exploring the creation and loss of memory based on his own episode of amnesia following a sandboarding accident. A short version premiered in July of that year at the Centro Cultural Cafae. The following year, an extended version premiered in March at the 25th Guadalajara International Film Festival.

In 2015, he premiered his first feature film, Videophilia (and Other Viral Syndromes), which won the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, becoming the first Peruvian film to win the festival's top prize. Subsequently, it was selected as the Peruvian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.

In 2025, he released his second feature film, Punku, in the Forum section at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, nominated for the FIPRESI Prize in that section, also was nominated for the Trophy Spondylus at the 29th Lima Film Festival, winning Best Cinematography - Special Mention for Johan Carrasco.

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