Directing
Ariel Escalante
Born 1984-01-01 · San José, Costa Rica
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.
Acting credits
5.0Hernandez had already made films in Guatemala and Mexico and this time found inspiring locations, unusual atmosphere and enthusiastic young people in Costa Rica. In this consciously unpolished film, the rebellious girls Sole and Ana open the trunk of a car in grandma’s garden and find something they’d rather immediately forget.
Lightning Falls Behind
2017
5.7A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.
The Sound of Things
2016
Behind the camera
8.5Joel is a 28 year old slacker who gets up every morning to drink beer and play his guitar. His older sister interrupts his daily routine by asking him to take care of her 6 year old kid. Joel thinks he can handle it, but things get complicated when the kid disappears from the house.
Puro Mula
2011
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Stronzo
2009
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Stronzo
2009
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Stronzo
2009
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Musgo
2014
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Musgo
2014
Set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, a young mother struggles to provide for her family after her husband dies and the local town folk won’t do business with her. But when she finds the body of a notorious wanted outlaw on her homestead, she strikes a deal with the bounty hunter who killed him—ssetting out across the dangerous frontier in hopes of a big reward and a better future.
In the Cradle of Granite
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How does progress in a city influence the life of its inhabitants? Panama is one of the fastest-growing economies in Latin America, as reflected primarily in the various construction mega-projects that have been adorning the capital of this small country. Many in this city brag about the pace of development that is taking place, but to what point can we speak of development? The documentary seeks to assess this development in terms of the improvement or worsening it produces in the Panamanians’ quality of life.
Caos en la ciudad
2012
5.7A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.
The Sound of Things
2016
5.7A young and dedicated nurse is trying to avoid the pain left by her dear cousin's suicide.
The Sound of Things
2016
On the day of his wife's funeral, an absent father will come to realize how hard will it be to raise his kids alone.
A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011
On the day of his wife's funeral, an absent father will come to realize how hard will it be to raise his kids alone.
A partir de ahora solo nosotros
2011
5.4Domingo’s house in the Costa Rican mountains is about to be expropriated for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret: the ghost of his deceased wife visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.
Domingo and the Mist
2022
5.4Domingo’s house in the Costa Rican mountains is about to be expropriated for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret: the ghost of his deceased wife visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.
Domingo and the Mist
2022
5.4Domingo’s house in the Costa Rican mountains is about to be expropriated for the construction of a highway. But his land hides a secret: the ghost of his deceased wife visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.
Domingo and the Mist
2022