Amat Escalante
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1979
Country: Mexico
Total Credits at Criticker: 9 (Director), 6 (Writer)
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A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-laborers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home Improvement Store waiting for work to come. Today, the job they are given is well paid compared to their poor usual wages. Today, Jesus carries a shotgun inside his backpack. (imdb)
Diego (Cirilo Recio) is a cross-eyed, middle-aged man who works as a doorman in a government building and spends the day counting the persons who pass in front of him. His younger wife Blanca (Laura Saldaña) works in a fast-food sushi bar. They do not have much to say to each other and so they wile away the hours watching TV. They do have an active sex life with Blanca usually leading the way. One day he arrives home to find her waiting for him nude on the floor with her legs spread wide open. (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Made up of 10 short films, 'Revolucion' analyzes through the eyes of the directors what is the revolution today and what it means to the young minds of Mexico. (imdb)
Heli is confronted with police corruption, drug trafficking, sexual exploitation, love, guilt, and revenge in search for his father who has mysteriously disappeared. (ioncinema.com)
Amarrados (2002) - Short Film
A homeless kid addicted to sniffing glue is part of a vicious circle of dysfunction and sexual abuse. (imdb)
Esclava (2014) - Short Film
14-year-old Ana is easily seduced by Sam, a 17 year-old young man who, along with his mother and others deceive and blackmail Ana into the world of prostitution. Ana will shortly discover soon that it is part of a network of trafficking in persons and tries to escape. (imdb)
A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction. (imdb)
Narcos: Mexico (2018) - TV Series
The rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in Mexico.
A young man from a small mining town embroils himself with a wealthy family with a dubious past.