Arturo Pérez Torres

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]

Filmography
  • Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary - 2005[4]
  • Super Amigos - 2007[3]
  • City Idol - 2007[5]
  • Las águilas humanas - 2010
  • Proyecto Nº 945 - 2013
  • The Drawer Boy - 2017
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gollark: A fetus contains some of your genes but ~all of its materials come from what the mother eats/processes, so that isn't relevant either.
gollark: I'll rephrase a bit or something.
gollark: You were saying that it was "half another person's body" earlier.
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References
  1. "The Drawer Boy, premier long métrage de fiction pour Arturo Pérez Torres". Ici Radio-Canada, November 22, 2018.
  2. "Canadian Screen Awards 2019: English-Canadian films shut out of best picture category". Now, February 7, 2019.
  3. "Super Amigos". Variety, February 1, 2007.
  4. "Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary". Variety, December 4, 2005.
  5. "Celebrating City Idol". Torontoist, April 25, 2007.


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