Arturo Pérez Torres Explained
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
- - 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
Notes and References
- https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/l-heure-de-pointe-toronto/segments/entrevue/96108/the-drawer-boy-long-metrage-arturo-perez-torres "The Drawer Boy, premier long métrage de fiction pour Arturo Pérez Torres"
- https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/canadian-screen-awards-2019-nominations/ "Canadian Screen Awards 2019: English-Canadian films shut out of best picture category"
- https://variety.com/2007/film/reviews/super-amigos-1200510681/ "Super Amigos"
- Aviva Armour-Ostroff, "'A Day in the Life' with writer and director Arturo Pérez Torres". Toronto Guardian, April 20, 2019.
- https://variety.com/2005/film/reviews/wetback-the-undocumented-documentary-1200519879/ "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary"
- https://torontoist.com/2007/04/celebrating_cit/ "Celebrating City Idol"
