Ariel Escalante
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1984 (age 42) · San José, Costa Rica
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.
Known for
Puro Mula
April 1, 2011
Land of Ashes
March 4, 2020
Domingo and the Mist
November 6, 2022
The Eye and the Wall
December 9, 2021
Red Princesses
February 11, 2013
August
September 10, 2019
Violeta at Last
November 9, 2017
The Sound of Things
December 11, 2016
Shooting
February 26, 2019
Stronzo
June 10, 2009
Los Minutos, Las Horas
May 11, 2011
Rosado Furia
December 5, 2014
Behind the camera19
- 2022Domingo and the Mist Director, Writer, Producer
- 2021The Eye and the Wall Editor
- 2020Land of Ashes Editor
- 2019August Editor
- 2019Shooting Editor
- 2017Violeta at Last Editor
- 2016The Sound of Things Writer, Director
- 2014Rosado Furia Editor
- 2014Musgo Writer, Director
- 2013Red Princesses Editor