Amat Escalante
Amat Escalante (born February 28, 1979 in Barcelona , Spain ) is a Mexican film director , producer and screenwriter . In 2013 he received the Film Festival in Cannes for his film Heli the prize for best director .
Life
Amat Escalante was born in Barcelona but spent most of his childhood and youth in the Mexican city of Guanajuato . He later returned to Barcelona to study film editing and sound at the Centro de Estudios Cinematograficos de Catalunya .
His first short film Amarrados was awarded at several festivals in 2002. He then worked as assistant director to Carlos Reygadas in the production of the highly acclaimed film Battle in Heaven .
In 2005 he finally presented his first own feature film, Sangre . It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival as part of the Un Certain Regard section .
In the following years he made two more movies with Los Bastardos and Heli . For the latter, he received an invitation to compete at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in 2013 , where he won the directing award .
In 2016 Escalante received an invitation to compete at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival for his feature film La región salvaje .
In 2017 he was accepted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which awards the Oscars every year.
Filmography
- 2002: Amarrados (short film)
- 2005: Sangre
- 2008: Los Bastardos
- 2010: Revolución (segment: El cura Nicolas colgado )
- 2013: Heli
- 2016: La región salvaje
Awards
- Sangre . FIPRESCI Prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 . “Silver Alexander” at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
- Los Bastardos . "Best Ibero-American Film" ( Mar del Plata Film Festival , 2008)
- Helicopter . Award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 . Munich Film Festival : "Best Foreign Film" ( ARRI / Osram Award ). “Gran Coral” at the International Festival of New Latin American Film
Web links
- Amat Escalante in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Amat Escalante - Biography ( Memento from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) biosstars.us, accessed on April 18, 2013
- ↑ http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/04/18/1456733/el-mexicano-amat-escalante-competira.html (link not available)
- ↑ "Class of 2017". Accessed June 30, 2017. http://www.app.oscars.org/class2017/ .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Escalante, Amat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona , Spain |