Person
Ariel Escalante
Directing · Born 1984-01-01 · San José, Costa Rica
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.
Known for
August
Editor
Land of Ashes
Editor
Rosado Furia
Editor
Puro Mula
Writer
Los Minutos, Las Horas
Editor
Lightning Falls Behind
Chofer Uber
El Huaso
Editor
In the Cradle of Granite
Director
The Sound of Things
Antonio
Tiempo de Buena Voz
Editor
Filmography
- 2022Domingo and the MistDirector
- 2021The Eye and the WallEditor
- 2020Land of AshesEditor
- 2019AugustEditor
- 2019ShootingEditor
- 2017Violeta at LastEditor
- 2017Lightning Falls BehindChofer Uber
- 2016The Sound of ThingsAntonio
- 2014Rosado FuriaEditor
- 2014MusgoWriter
- 2013Red PrincessesEditor
- 2012Caos en la ciudadWriter
- 2012El HuasoEditor
- 2011Los Minutos, Las HorasEditor
- 2011A partir de ahora solo nosotrosDirector
- 2011Puro MulaWriter
- 2009StronzoProducer
- 2009La vida sigue alegreEditor
- 2009Tiempo de Buena VozEditor
- —In the Cradle of GraniteDirector
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