Ariel Escalante
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1984 (age 42)
Birthplace
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...
Best known work
Puro Mula
2011
Land of Ashes
2020
Lightning Falls Behind
2017
Domingo and the Mist
2022
The Eye and the Wall
2021
Red Princesses
2013
August
2019
Violeta at Last
2017
The Sound of Things
2016
Shooting
2019Filmography
TBA
In the Cradle of GraniteDirector
2022
Domingo and the MistDirector, Writer, Producer
2021
The Eye and the WallEditor
2020
Land of AshesEditor
2019
AugustEditor
2019
ShootingEditor
2017
Violeta at LastEditor
2017
Lightning Falls Behindas Chofer Uber
2016
The Sound of Thingsas Antonio, Writer, Director
2014
Rosado FuriaEditor
2014
MusgoDirector, Writer
2013
Red PrincessesEditor
2012
Caos en la ciudadWriter, Editor
2012
El HuasoEditor
2011
Los Minutos, Las HorasEditor
2011
A partir de ahora solo nosotrosDirector, Writer, Editor
2011
Puro MulaWriter
2009
StronzoDirector, Producer, Writer
2009
La vida sigue alegreEditor
2009
Tiempo de Buena VozEditor