Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual

What Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual does

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual is a Peruvian non-profit civil association (asociación civil sin fines de lucro) founded in 1982 and headquartered in Chorrillos, Lima. The organization produces audiovisual content — including feature films such as Gregorio (1984), Juliana (1989), and La última noticia (2015), documentary series such as Agua para la vida and El Legado de mi abuela, and ongoing projects like the 2025 film Recuerdos en el mar — aimed at educational and community audiences in Peru. Its core operational asset is the Red Nacional de Microcines, a network of 32 community cinemas managed by 230 young facilitators across 10 regions of Peru, which functions as both a cultural distribution channel and a youth training program.

The organization's business model is grant-and-donation funded rather than revenue-driven. Income sources include individual and corporate donations (made tax-deductible via SUNAT recognition), project-based grants, and fundraising events. The annual Chacchando Sueños international community cinema encounter (currently in its eighth edition) serves as both a programmatic milestone and a visibility/partner-engagement mechanism. There are no disclosed earned-revenue streams such as ticket sales, licensing, or subscription products; financial sustainability depends on continued donor and grantor support.

Grupo Chaski operates with 11–50 employees and relies on an extended network of community-based youth facilitators, board members (including co-founder Alejandro Legaspi), and partners such as Star Cinema for co-productions. No funding rounds, acquisitions, patents, or technology-driven moats are present in the available record; the organization's defensibility rests on its embedded community infrastructure and four-decade filmography rather than on proprietary technology or capital structure.

Name

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual

Legal name

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual

Website

https://grupochaski.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual is a Peruvian non-profit founded in 1982 that produces educational films and operates a network of 32 community microcines across 10 regions of Peru, serving underserved audiences through donor- and grant-funded cultural programming.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Cinema & Cultural Services

NAICS

Motion Picture and Video Production (512110), Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events with Facilities (71131), Motion Picture and Video Industries (5121)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812), Services-Motion Picture Theaters (7830), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Media Arts & Film/Photography Nonprofits (BPAGAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Media Partnerships & Content Co-productions (NGO/Cultural) (MPABADAN)

Keywords

• Community cinema
• Documentary film production
• Audiovisual training
• Non-profit filmmaking
• Microcinema network

Headquarters

HQ city

Chorrillos

HQ country

Peru

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and fundraising: Grupo Chaski operates as a non-profit civil association and generates revenue primarily through donations from companies, civil organizations, and individuals. It is recognized as a donation recipient by SUNAT (Peru's tax authority), enabling donors to deduct contributions from income tax. Additional income may derive from professional audiovisual services and project-based grants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual is a non-profit civil association (asociación civil sin fines de lucro) founded in 1982 in Lima, Peru. It produces films including feature films, documentaries, and short films, operates a national network of 32 community-run microcines across 10 regions of Peru managed by 230 young people, and delivers audiovisual training workshops for community cinema production.

Product overview

Grupo Chaski Comunicación Audiovisual is a non-profit civil association that operates as a collective of filmmakers, audiovisual communicators, and cultural managers. Its core offering consists of audiovisual production (feature films, documentaries, and short films), the Red Nacional de Microcines network of 32 community-run cinemas, the annual 'Chacchando Sueños' international community cinema encounter, and documentary series produced by and for communities across Peru. The organization's portfolio includes branded film productions (Gregorio, Juliana, La última noticia, Caminos de liberación, Sueños lejanos, Kukama), distributed documentary content series (Agua para la vida, El Legado de mi abuela), community cinema workshops and training, and alternative distribution of community-generated content across 10 regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Red Nacional de Microcines (National Microcinema Network) A nationwide network of 32 community-run microcines across 10 regions of Peru, managed by 230 young people, providing free cinema access to underserved communities.
• Talleres de Cine Comunitario (Community Cinema Workshops) Audiovisual training workshops that teach community members, particularly young people, the skills to produce community cinema.
• Agua para la vida (Water for Life) Documentary series produced as part of Grupo Chaski's social-impact content slate, distributed through the microcinema network and community screenings.
• El Legado de mi abuela (My Grandmother's Legacy) Documentary series produced as part of Grupo Chaski's social-impact content slate, distributed through the microcinema network and community screenings.
• Recuerdos en el mar (Memories in the Sea) Short film produced by the organization, part of its audiovisual production slate distributed through community screenings and the microcinema network.

Quantifiable outcome

• 32 microcines operating as sustainable cultural microenterprises managed by youth across 10 regions of Peru.
• +3 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SUNAT (Superintendencia Nacional de Aduanas y de Administración Tributaria)minorOthersGrupo Chaski is recognized as an official donation recipient (perceptor de donaciones) by Peru's tax authority, SUNAT. This status allows companies and individuals to deduct their donations from income tax, facilitating philanthropic contributions to the organization's community cinema mission.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• CineMigrante: CineMigrante is an Argentine non-profit cinema and human rights festival that pairs screenings with public discussion and community programming. Comparable to Grupo Chaski's model of using community film screenings plus conversatorios as a vehicle for social reflection in marginalized populations.
• Ambulante: Ambulante is a Mexican non-profit documentary cinema organization that operates touring community screenings and a documentary festival, much like Grupo Chaski's community microcines and Chacchando Sueños encounter. Both nonprofits focus on social-issue documentary exhibition and audience development across underserved regions.
• DocsMX: DocsMX is a Mexican documentary film festival and nonprofit that runs screenings, training labs, and community outreach. Comparable to Grupo Chaski in combining documentary exhibition with audience-development programming aimed at underrepresented voices.
• Cooperativa de Cinema e Video de Porto Alegre: A Brazilian cooperative film production and community cinema organization focused on independent and social-issue filmmaking, comparable to Grupo Chaski's collective filmmaker model and community distribution network in Latin America.

Broad incumbents

• Tribeca Film Institute: Tribeca Film Institute is a nonprofit that runs filmmaker support, community storytelling, and educational programs. Comparable as a nonprofit film organization with community-training components analogous to Grupo Chaski's Taller de Cine Comunitario, but at much larger scale.
• Sundance Institute: Sundance Institute is a large U.S. nonprofit supporting independent film and storytelling through labs, fellowships, and festivals. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Grupo Chaski in mission (nonprofit film/community storytelling), but operates at much greater scale and global reach.
• Cinemateca de Bogotá: Cinemateca de Bogotá is a Colombian film heritage and exhibition institution operating cinemas, archives, and community programming. Comparable to Grupo Chaski in operating a network of exhibition spaces and cultural programming, but it is a public institution with significantly larger resources.
• Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano: A Colombian nonprofit dedicated to film preservation, restoration, and community exhibition, with similar cultural-heritage and community-cinema objectives to Grupo Chaski's microcines and filmography work.

Emerging players

• Ojo Loco Cine Peruano: Ojo Loco is a Peruvian independent film distribution and exhibition organization that runs community screenings of Peruvian cinema. Directly comparable to Grupo Chaski's alternative distribution model in the same Peruvian market, though at a smaller scale and more commercial focus.

Regional players

• Punto de Vista: Punto de Vista is the Pamplona International Documentary Film Festival in Spain, focused on non-fiction cinema with strong community programming and educational outreach. Comparable as a documentary festival with community cinema ethos similar to Chacchando Sueños, though based in Europe rather than Latin America.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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