Arturo Pérez Torres is a Mexican-born Canadian film director and screenwriter."The Drawer Boy, premier long métrage de fiction pour Arturo Pérez Torres". Ici Radio-Canada, November 22, 2018. 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."Canadian Screen Awards 2019: English-Canadian films shut out of best picture category". Now, February 7, 2019.
Born and raised in Mexico City,"Super Amigos". Variety, February 1, 2007. 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.
He is married to Aviva Armour-Ostroff, his codirector of both The Drawer Boy and Lune.Aviva Armour-Ostroff, "'A Day in the Life' with writer and director Arturo Pérez Torres". Toronto Guardian, April 20, 2019.
Filmography Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary - 2005"Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary". Variety, December 4, 2005. Super Amigos - 2007 City Idol - 2007"Celebrating City Idol". Torontoist, April 25, 2007. Las águilas humanas - 2010 Proyecto Nº 945 - 2013 The Drawer Boy - 2017, with Aviva Armour-Ostroff Lune - 2021, with Aviva Armour-Ostroff
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