- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1984
- Place of Birth
- San José, Costa Rica
Ariel Escalante
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.
Filmography
movieDomingo and the Mist
2022 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Eye and the Wall
2021 · Editor
movieLand of Ashes
2020 · Editor
movieAugust
2019 · Editor
movieShooting
2019 · Editor
movieVioleta at Last
2017 · Editor
movieLightning Falls Behind
2017 · Chofer Uber
movieThe Sound of Things
2016 · Antonio, Writer, Director
movieRosado Furia
2014 · Editor
Musgo
movieMusgo
2014 · Writer, Director
movieRed Princesses
2013 · Editor
Caos en la ciudad
movieCaos en la ciudad
2012 · Writer, Editor
El Huaso
movieEl Huaso
2012 · Editor
movieLos Minutos, Las Horas
2011 · Editor
A partir de ahora solo nosotros
movieA partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011 · Director, Writer, Editor
moviePuro Mula
2011 · Writer
movieStronzo
2009 · Producer, Director, Writer
La vida sigue alegre
movieLa vida sigue alegre
2009 · Editor
Tiempo de Buena Voz
movieTiempo de Buena Voz
2009 · Editor
In the Cradle of Granite
movieIn the Cradle of Granite
— · Director