Luigi Lanuza
Luigui Geovani Lanuza Estrada is a Guatemalan actor and producer.
Early life[edit]
Lanuza is the son of Rafael Launza, a pioneering director of Guatemalan cinema. He appeared in several movies in the 1970s including Superzan y el niño del Espacio (1972) and Terremoto en Guatemala (1976). He graduated in 1983 from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, becoming a doctor. He later moved to San Francisco, California and worked with the Hispanic community.[how?][1] While in San Francisco, he was the spokesperson of the city's Public Health Department on the TV channels Univision and Telemundo.[2]
Return to Guatemala[edit]
Following his career as a doctor, he returned to Guatemala and became involved in the movie industry again. He produced Soy de Zacapa,[3] a film inspired a popular Guatemalan song which was turned into a script by his father. The film debuted in 2011.[4]
As of June 2015, Lanuza is working on El Señor de Esquipulas, his latest film. It is set to premiere in Hollywood in August 2015.[5]
He was also involved in the production of several consumer brands' advertising.[2]
Filmography[edit]
- Navidad para el olvido (2021), short film broadcast on Guatevisión[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "Luigi Lanuza".[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Luigui Geovani Lanuza Estrada". Sicultura.gob.gt (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ "Soy de Zacapa". IMDB. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ^ "Estreno Soy de Zacapa" (in Spanish).[permanent dead link]
- ^ Ochoa, Salazar. "Luigi Lanuza regresa con nuevo filme: "El Señor de Esquipulas"" (in Spanish).
- ^ Lucrecia Choy (23 December 2021). "Guatevisión presenta el cortometraje Navidad para el olvido". Guatevision.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 December 2022.