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Ariel Escalante profile
Actor

Ariel Escalante

Directing

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Acting credits

2

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TMDB popularity

0.2

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Movies: 13Series: 0Crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1686041

IMDb ID: nm3887616

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1984

Age: 42

Place of birth: San José, Costa Rica

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2009 - 2022

Years active: 14

Average TMDB rating: 7.34

Wikidata: Q112759731

Also known as

Ariel Escalante Meza

Other jobs

Editor (8)Writer (2)Director (1)Producer (1)

Biography

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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