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Welcome director and one of Gringa´s two scriptwriters. (Mario Guevara is the other)
Let's start by briefing our audience on what this movie is about.
-Gringa is a movie about the people
who want to seek a better life via tourists.
This is a phenomenon that can be found in many parts of the world
that have an increased tourism potential.
In Spain, Greece, Thailand, Cuba, Peru,
basically, wherever there are tourists.
Well, some locals want to, first
live at the expense of the tourists
and second, to find a way to leave their countries, to find a "wallet",
because they don´ have enough means to buy their own ticket abroad.
So, for them, the best way to go abroad is to travel by gringa (tourist).
This is the main theme of the movie.
What inspired you to create Gringa?
During one of my trips to Cusco, there was a problem with a "brichera".
It´s a term used in Peru, "brichera" (local seducers) - especially in Cusco.
So, there was a problem with a brichera where I was staying.
It was then that I realized that this was a phenomenon,
that "brichero (-a)" was a life style.
The Peruvians who live in Cusco, not necessarily from Cusco,
they can come from other cities, like Lima, because they know that there are tourists
and because they know that there (in Cusco) they can have fun.
This gave the central theme of this movie.
At the same time, I met writer Mario Guevara, my co-scriptwriter.
Mario wrote a book called "How to Hunt Gringas" (tourists).
It's a satire about the difficulty of seducing foreign tourists.
-I am an expert in reading palms.
Fine, thank you, my boyfriend is coming, so... Thank you.
Look at me. Let me read those hands.
OK.
Hey, Jose!
So you think you're a fortune teller, don't you?!
What's wrong? Whats wrong with you?
Manuel, the main character, is a brichero,
a Peruvian who tries to elope poverty by hunting gringas.
Is Manuel the typical Peruvian in search of a better life?
Manuel reflects basically all the people who want to get out of poverty
or are looking for a better life
in tourist sites all over the World.
I've been in Easter Island and many other places
and the phenomenon is roughly the same, with different variations.
There are even organized trips in Europe, especially in Southern Italy,
which old people take to find young people.
This is well-known. It's not something invented in or pertaining solely to Peru.
In Cuba, bricheros are called "jineteras",
in Greece, there is another term for this (for bricheros),
but especially in the case of Peru, the term used is "brichero"- "brichera",
because Mario Guevara assigned this term "brichero"- "brichera"
which comes from the word "bridge".
In this context, a bridge between different cultures, between a tourist and a native.
The other theory is that the term (brichero) comes from "hembra" (female).
I don't know which is, in fact, the exact origin,
but in any case, this is an accepted terminology used by anthropologists in Peru.
So "brichero" is "the one who tries to live at the cost of the gringa or the ***".
What do you hope people take away from the film?
I cannot particularly say what Gringa means emotionally,
I certainly cannot say.
Gringa is a black comedy produced in Peru,
and among other things, it gives people a glimpse, of the great scenery of Cusco.
All the scenes were filmed in Cusco,
with actors who were the people in the streets,
people who happened to be around when we filmed
and whom I didn´t have the financial means to reward, as extra cast.
But this is the value of the movie.
It's a movie that gives us over an hour to see and discover parts of Peru,
discover Cusco, discover the brichero,
discover that this is a way to leave, that it's a way to travel.
This is Gringa.