Amat Escalante
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Amat Escalante (left) with Víctor Gaviria (center) at Talent Campus, Guadalajara (March 2009).
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| Born | Amat Escalante 28 February 1979 [1] Barcelona, Spain[2] |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | Film director, producer and screenwriter |
| Years active | 2002 - present |
Amat Escalante (born 28 February 1979) is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter who won the best director prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Biography
Escalante was incidentally born in Barcelona, Spain while his parents —composed by a Mexican father and an American mother[4] — had been living in Norway.[5][6] He spent most of his early years in Guanajuato, Mexico,[2] but moved to Spain in 2001 to study film editing and sound at the Center for Cinematographic Studies of Catalonia (Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya, CECC)[7] and apply for Spanish citizenship; which he failed to secure.[5]
After his stint in Barcelona, he joined the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Havana, Cuba;[7] an institution founded by Nobel prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, Fernando Birri and the Julio García Espinosa "to support the development of national audio-visual industries" in non-aligned countries.[8] Back in Mexico, he directed a short film (Amarrados, 2002) that received an award at the 2003 Berlin International Film Festival.
He worked as an assistant of Carlos Reygadas in Batalla en el cielo (2005).[9] During the filming of the movie —which entered the 2005 Cannes Film Festival— both became close friends, and Reygadas ended up co-producing some of Escalante's first films.[2] One of those films, Sangre (2005), filmed in November 2004 with a budget of US$60,000, was included in Un Certain Regard (a section of the same festival) and in both Rotterdam and San Sebastián.[10]
His film Heli was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the prize for Best Director by a jury presided by U.S. director Steven Spielberg.[11][12]
Filmography
- Heli (2013), director
- Los bastardos (2008), director, producer, screenwriter
- Sangre (2005), director, producer, screenwriter
- The Legend of Pete Jones (2005), cinematographer
- Amarrados (2002), producer
See also
References
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External links
- Amat Escalante at the Internet Movie DatabaseLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
