Arturo Pérez Torres
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Arturo Pérez Torres is a Mexican-born Canadian film director and screenwriter.[1] He is most noted for his 2017 film The Drawer Boy, for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.[2]
Born and raised in Mexico City,[3] he studied film at San Francisco State University and sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and worked in advertising as an art director until moving to Canada in 2003. He became a Canadian citizen in 2007, and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. He directed several documentary films before releasing The Drawer Boy, his first narrative feature film, in 2017.[1]
He is married to Aviva Armour-Ostroff, his codirector of both The Drawer Boy and Lune.[4]
Filmography[edit]
- Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary - 2005[5]
- Super Amigos - 2007[3]
- City Idol - 2007[6]
- Las águilas humanas - 2010
- Proyecto Nº 945 - 2013
- The Drawer Boy - 2017, with Aviva Armour-Ostroff
- Lune - 2021, with Aviva Armour-Ostroff
References[edit]
- ^ a b "The Drawer Boy, premier long métrage de fiction pour Arturo Pérez Torres". Ici Radio-Canada, November 22, 2018.
- ^ "Canadian Screen Awards 2019: English-Canadian films shut out of best picture category". Now, February 7, 2019.
- ^ a b "Super Amigos". Variety, February 1, 2007.
- ^ Aviva Armour-Ostroff, "'A Day in the Life' with writer and director Arturo Pérez Torres". Toronto Guardian, April 20, 2019.
- ^ "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary". Variety, December 4, 2005.
- ^ "Celebrating City Idol". Torontoist, April 25, 2007.
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