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Ariel Escalante (b. 1984)

Alias:
Ariel Escalante Meza

Birthplace:
San José, Costa Rica

Born:
January 1, 1984

Biography from TheMovieDB

Ariel Escalante (born 1984; San José) is a Costa Rican screenwriter, film editor and director.  He edited Janaína Marqués's 2009 short Los minutos, las horas (The Minutes, the Hours) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and Clermont-Ferrand, where it won the Special Jury Award, as well as Carlo Guillermo Proto's documentary El Huaso, which premiered at Guadalajara, Lima, Hot Docs, Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival and Quebec, where it won the Audience Award. The Sound of Things, Escalante's feature directorial debut, premiered at Mar del Plata, Biarritz, Panama, and Moscow, where it won the Kommersant Weekend Prize. The Sound of Things was selected as the sixth ever Costa Rican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film, but it was not nominated.

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Film Production

Director:
2009  Stronzo
2011  A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2014  Musgo
2016  The Sound of Things
2022  Domingo and the Mist
????  In the Cradle of Granite

Editor:
2009  La vida sigue alegre
2009  Stronzo
2009  Tiempo de Buena Voz
2011  A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011  Los Minutos, Las Horas
2012  Caos en la ciudad
2012  El Huaso
2013  Red Princesses
2014  Musgo
2014  Rosado Furia
2016  The Sound of Things
2017  Violeta at Last
2019  August
2019  Shooting
2020  Land of Ashes
2021  The Eye and the Wall
2022  Domingo and the Mist
????  In the Cradle of Granite

Producer:
2009  La vida sigue alegre
2009  Stronzo
2009  Tiempo de Buena Voz
2011  A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011  Los Minutos, Las Horas
2012  Caos en la ciudad
2012  El Huaso
2013  Red Princesses
2014  Musgo
2014  Rosado Furia
2016  The Sound of Things
2017  Violeta at Last
2019  August
2019  Shooting
2020  Land of Ashes
2021  The Eye and the Wall
2022  Domingo and the Mist
????  In the Cradle of Granite

Writer:
2009  La vida sigue alegre
2009  Stronzo
2009  Tiempo de Buena Voz
2011  A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011  Los Minutos, Las Horas
2011  Puro Mula
2012  Caos en la ciudad
2012  El Huaso
2013  Red Princesses
2014  Musgo
2014  Rosado Furia
2016  The Sound of Things
2017  Violeta at Last
2019  August
2019  Shooting
2020  Land of Ashes
2021  The Eye and the Wall
2022  Domingo and the Mist
????  In the Cradle of Granite

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