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Amat Escalante (born 28 February 1979) is a Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter. He is most well known for directing the controversial Mexican crime thriller Heli for which he was awarded the best director prize award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and for directing the 2016 Mexican drama The Untamed for which he received the ...
Amat Escalante is a Spanish filmmaker who has made several acclaimed movies, such as The Untamed, Heli and The Bastards. He was born in Barcelona in 1979 and has also worked as a director, producer and writer for TV shows and short films.
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Amat Escalante ( Barcelona, 28 de febrero de 1979) es un director, productor y guionista español - mexicano galardonado con el Premio al Mejor Director en el Festival de Cannes 2013. 1 Ha dirigido Sangre, Los bastardos y Heli.
For Escalante, a filmmaker concerned with daily life in Mexico amid corruption and violence, these occurrences take on as much of a quotidian quality as Akerman’s potatoes. Escalante’s quotidian, however, is unflinching, even numb.
Amat Escalante, né le 28 février 1979 à Barcelone, est un réalisateur mexicain. Son film Heli remporte le Prix de la mise en scène au Festival de Cannes 2013 .
Feb 20, 2024 · This disconcerting image drags us into The Untamed (La región salvaje), director Amat Escalante’s brilliantly unsettling 2016 genre-bender: part social realist drama and part sci-fi thriller.
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In 2016, Amat Escalante received the Silver Lion for best director with THE UNTAMED premiered at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. In 2023, he returns for the third time to Cannes with his fifth feature LOST IN THE NIGHT premiered at Cannes Première.
