Augusto Cabada

Augusto Cabada Cáceres was born in Miraflores in 1961. He studied film at the University of Lima, where he later taught Film Language and Screenwriting for several years. He wrote film criticism for various publications, including the legendary magazine Hablemos de Cine (Let's Talk About Film), alongside Ricardo Bedoya, Federico de Cárdenas, José Carlos Huayhuaca, Nelson García, Reynaldo Ledgard, and others. He made his television screenwriting debut in 1985 when Danny Gavidia recommended him to Pancho Lombardi, who had begun producing a telenovela called Bajo tu piel (Under Your Skin), directed by Augusto Tamayo. There, he teamed up for the first time with Giovanna Pollarolo.

Works

Valentina Valiente

Valentina is a young, resilient woman who has dedicated her life to raising her younger siblings. However, her life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers she is the heir to a vast fortune, plunging her into a world where power, the past, and hidden agendas will dictate her path. Along the way, she meets Alejandro, a love that seems impossible, yet inevitable.

Release Date2026-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count92

Vote Count10

Love at First Sight

Release Date1992-02-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

The Feast of the Goat

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.

Release Date2006-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Fallen from Heaven

An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.

Release Date1990-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count11

Heart of the Wolf

Inspired by actual events, the film follows Aquiles, an Amazonian boy abducted by the terrorist group Shining Path. Through his testimony, we witness his journey from victim to fighter and his desperate attempt to escape. A raw and intimate look at indoctrination, violence, and survival, the film reconstructs his struggle for identity and freedom.

Release Date2025-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Mouth of the Wolf

The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.

Release Date1988-12-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count30

Willaq Pirqa, the Cinema of My Village

Sistu and her small community in the Andes discover the magic of cinema. This meeting causes a stir but also confronts them with their culture and highlights the limitations of the community to understand and read Spanish. As a solution, they choose Sistu so that every week he goes to town to see a movie and tells it to everyone in the square.

Release Date2022-12-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Baladas Musicales: Jonás ¿Dónde estás?

An old woman searching for her cat.

Release Date1990-04-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sin compasión

Ramón, a psychologically unstable university student from Lima, murders his landlords, who constantly demanded the payment of the monthly rent for the hovel in which he lives. From here, remorse and the fear of being arrested will eat you inside.

Release Date1994-12-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

Under the Skin

Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.

Release Date1996-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

The Sax Country

A documentary about the love for music and fascination for the sax in the central mountain range of Perú. It was filmed in the Mantaro Valley and in New York City. With an instrument mainly associated to blues, jazz and rock 'n' roll, Peruvians express their deepest feelings from their native mountains throughout the instrument.

Release Date2007-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

El Final

A husband-and-wife team of screenwriters argue and imagine possible endings for the telenovela they're writing. They project their frustrations onto the characters, and a struggle erupts between man and woman, between fiction and reality.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Dos Besos

The linking of three characters in a kind of mutual deceit. Different points of view, attitudes and a look at relationships marked by social and cultural differences.

Release Date2015-09-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Coliseo

The folk music tent "Coliseo" will be evicted, causing the disappearance of a group of artists who found a way of life and identity there. Marcial and Esperanza will form a dance group to save the "Coliseo" by competing in a Huaylarsh Competition against the famous "Tricampeones."

Release Date2012-10-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Muero por Muriel

The plot revolves around a love triangle between Bernie, Muriel's husband, who hires the services of a detective named Oso to investigate his wife. To this is added the participation of Felix, who is the supposed lover.

Release Date2007-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

La Consulta

A man confesses to his therapist that he has just murdered his wife. The psychologist tries to convince him not to commit suicide as planned and to turn himself in to the police. After all, given his history as a patient, he could plead diminished capacity and receive a lighter sentence; however, he hasn't told her the whole truth.

Release Date1992-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector