Alejandro Landes
Alejandro Landes Echavarría (born 1980) is a Colombian-Ecuadorian film director, producer, screenwriter, and journalist. He is mainly known for directing Spanish-language films such as Porfirio, a Colombian drama that was based on a true story, and the documentary Cocalero about Evo Morales's successful presidential campaign in Bolivia.
Alejandro Landes
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- Name
- Alejandro Landes Echavarría
- Born
- 1980
- Birthplace
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Occupation
- * Film director,
- Full name
- Alejandro Landes Echavarría.
- Nationality
- Colombia and Ecuador.
- Education
- Brown University.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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• Name — Alejandro Landes Echavarría • Birth Name — Alejandro Landes Echavarría • Born — 1980 • Birthplace — São Paulo, Brazil • Occupation — * Film director, • producer • screenwriter • journalist
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Alejandro Landes (born 1980) is recorded as a director, screenwriter and film producer. Alejandro Landes was born in 1980 in São Paulo.
Biography
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Landes Echavarría was born in São Paulo, Brazil to a Colombian mother and Ecuadorian father. Landes Echavarría received a B.A. in Political Economy from Brown University in 2003. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Landes Echavarría worked as an assistant producer for Oppenheimer Presenta, a weekly news broadcast show. He also wrote for the Miami Herald. Landes Echavarría's first film, Cocalero, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. His second feature, Porfirio, premiered in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015 the work on his home, which he named "Casa Bahia", in Miami, Florida was finished. He contributed his own ideas to the building's architectural design.
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• Cocalero (2007) • Porfirio (2011) • Monos (2019)
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- 1.Catsoulis, Jeannette. A Truculent Man in a Wheelchair and a Diaper. The New York Times. 8 February 2013.
- 2.Sundance Institute Announces 12 Projects For 2009 June Directors And Screenwriters Labs. Sundance Institute. 22 April 2009.
- 3.Alejandro Landes. National Museum of the American Indian. August 2007.
- 4.Perfiles: Alejandro Landes. Proimágenes Colombia.
- 5.Kearney, Bill. Cinema scope: Alejandro Landes designs a scene-stealing Miami home. Wallpaper*. 23 December 2015.
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