Amat Escalante

Amat Escalante grew up in Mexico but went abroad to study. He studied editing and sound at CECC film school in Barcelona, later attending EICTV, the International Film and Television School in Havana. In 2001 he wrote and co-directed the short Modesta, and a year later in Mexico he directed Amarrados (2002), which took an award at the Berlin IFF in 2003. His feature debut Sangre (2005) screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. The… (több)