Ariel Escalante

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1984-01-01 (41 years old)

Place of Birth

San José, Costa Rica

Ariel Escalante

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. T...

Acting

2016

2017

Production

2022

2012

El Huaso

as Editor

2014

Musgo

as Director

2014

Musgo

as Writer

2016

2012

2012

2019

Shooting

as Editor

2013

2009

2009

Stronzo

as Director

2009

Stronzo

as Producer

2009

Stronzo

as Writer

2022

2011

Puro Mula

as Writer

2016

2020

Land of Ashes

as Editor

2019

August

as Editor

2017

2014

Rosado Furia

as Editor

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