Raúl Bastante Davelouis is a versatile Peruvian screenwriter and designer with an extensive career. A graduate of Universidad de Lima, he made his name in the television industry as a writer for the hit series «Casado con mi hermano».
His versatility has allowed him to blend storytelling with visual language, standing out as creative director at advertising agencies, art director at a virtual community group, and design strategist at technology and entertainment firms such as AlivePixel Inc.
Thanks to his solid technical foundation, he masters everything from building concept scripts to directing visual identity and advertising branding. This duality between word and aesthetics positions him as a key creator for the development of multimedia projects, ensuring coherence and consistency in the production of commercial content and international fiction.
Specialties: audiovisual screenwriting («El Sapo, diario de la mañana», «Casado con mi hermano»); digital design and branding for international firms such as AlivePixel Inc.; and transmedia solutions that translate abstract concepts into powerful narratives.
An innovative absurd-humour and satire show broadcast in the early 1990s, created by the writing collective "Los Leopoldos", to which Raúl belonged. It served as the group's creative platform and paved the way for the hit television sitcom "Casado con mi hermano".
A groundbreaking production that became the first situation comedy (sitcom) made in Peru. Inspired by US formats, it humorously portrayed the everyday life of a traditional couple living alongside an eccentric one. Its resounding success modernised Peruvian television comedy and became a creative breeding ground for renowned Peruvian screenwriters.
An irreverent entertainment show premiered in May 1993 that shook up the traditionally sober state channel and became a youth phenomenon thanks to its hidden-camera pranks and absurd sketches. Its carefree style defied every ratings prediction, delivering historic audience and sponsorship success for the state broadcaster.
Promoted as "Peru's first internet television channel". Inventarte designed "Telúrica" not merely as a show but as a technical laboratory to test how Peruvian audiences reacted to daily online video. Each episode summed up the biggest technology, internet and digital-culture news in a few minutes, with a fresh voice free of broadcast-TV formality.
It follows the outlandish misadventures inside the newsroom of an irreverent tabloid newspaper. This innovative 12-episode television comedy took its cue directly from the celebrated 1970s American sitcom "Soap".
It portrays the culture clash and hilarious situations that arise when the strict codes of an Amish community collide with the modern world. It premiered in Madrid in 2014 and reached Lima two years later.
By Asier Andueza, a free adaptation of "Como quien le pide sal al vecino". It follows the hilarious encounter between two neighbours who, after a seemingly everyday request, end up tangled in a web of uncomfortable truths and absurd situations. Carlos Bañuelos brought the essence of Spanish micro-theatre to rewrite, direct and star in the piece, which became the circuit's favourite, beating 14 other productions to win Best Staging of the season.
By Alberto Papa-Fragomén and Rodrigo Sopeña ("Que Dios nos coja confesados"). A riotous comedy of mix-ups, cons and hidden secrets around the theft of a valuable 17th-century painting belonging to a marchioness and guarded by a stern police inspector. Now in its successful second season in Lima with a stellar cast: Hugo Salazar, Lía Camilo, Pedro Olórtegui and Bañuelos himself as Father Julián, a peculiar priest with the cunning of a daring white-glove thief.
Independent work for international clients: Chocolates Sin Culpa (2016–2025), covering branding, packaging and social-media advertising across image, animation and video; ECOA, the American Ontological Coaching School in Bogotá, Colombia (2020–2023), design and advertising; and Pretorian, a security and valuables transport company (2022), branding design and advertising.