Lorena Alvarado

Lorena Alvarado explores memory in Lost Chapters

By: Michelle Young, Co-Editor-in-Chief Lost Chapters (or Los capítulos perdidos) is a quiet and tender documentary/fiction hybrid set in Caracas, Venezuela. The film follows Ena, who is searching for “forgotten writer” Rafael Bolívar Coronado across the city. Lost Chapters will be premiering at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival on September 5. I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with director Lorena Alvarado to learn more. This interview has been condensed for concision and clarity.   Tell me about how your life influenced the film.  “I considered it sort of an auto-fiction film so it’s a mix of real…

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