| Eleven Males | |
| Director: | Aldo Miyashiro |
| Story: | Aldo Miyashiro |
| Producer: | César Fajardo Gilberto Nué Aldo Miyashiro |
| Starring: | Pietro Sibille Aldo Miyashiro Vanessa Saba Érika Villalobos Cristian Rivero Yaco Eskenazi André Silva Daniel Peredo Junior Silva |
| Cinematography: | César Fajardo |
| Music: | José San Miguel Eduardo San Miguel |
| Studio: | AMA Films |
| Distributor: | Cinecolor Perú |
| Runtime: | 104 minutes |
| Country: | Peru |
| Language: | Spanish |
Eleven Males (Spanish: Once machos) is a 2017 Peruvian sports comedy film directed, co-written, produced and starred by Aldo Miyashiro.[1] [2]
The story of a neighborhood that bets on a football match the only thing they have in life, their houses. Once machos (Eleven males), a neighborhood team accustomed only to losing, will face Los Diamantes, a professional soccer team belonging to Jaime, former neighbor and villain of the story, who intends to knock down the entire neighborhood to build the most impressive shopping center in the country.[3]
In a review of the newspaper El Comercio, critic Sebastián Pimentel: gave the film a very low rating and described that "the psychological content is reduced to a matter of actions obvious, set phrases or grimaces of café-theater. The possibility of a popular, intelligent and imaginative Peruvian cinema is once again far from the big screen".[5]
In its billboard debut, Eleven Males achieved 45,000 viewers; becoming the most watched Peruvian film of 2017, surpassing "Cebiche de Tiburón", "Av. Larco" and "Gemelos sin cura".[6]
With the success of Once machos, a sequel entitled Eleven Males 2 was announced, this time without the participation of Daniel Peredo, who had died in early 2018.[7] After the success of the sequel, the realization of a third part was confirmed,[8] along with a new series titled Once machos, la serie (Eleven males, the series) to premiere in 2020.[9] but they were never released, and it is unknown what happened to these projects.