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Ariel Escalante

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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.

01-01-1984

Birthday

Capricorn

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2

Total Films

Also known as (male)

San José, Costa Rica

Place of Birth

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actor

2 Works

producer

2 Works

director

28 Works

writer

7 Works

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13 Works

Lightning Falls Behind

Lightning Falls Behind

Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.
5.0

Year:

2017

The Sound of Things

The Sound of Things

A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.
5.7

Year:

2016