---
name: "Amat Escalante"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/amat-escalante"
fi1m_id: "amat-escalante"
imdb_id: "nm1661334"
tmdb_id: 56375
wikidata_id: "Q4532710"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "28 February 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:51:36.895290+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Amat Escalante

## Identity

Amat Escalante

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/amat-escalante
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** amat-escalante
- **IMDb ID:** nm1661334
- **TMDB ID:** 56375
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4532710
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amat_Escalante, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4532710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1661334/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56375

Director. Born 28 February 1979 in Barcelona.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 28 February 1979, Barcelona
- **Also known as:** 아마트 에스칼란테
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amat_Escalante, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4532710, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1661334/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56375

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Sugar*](https://film.one/tv/sugar.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Amat Escalante is a Spanish-Mexican director, screenwriter and producer. He was born on 28 February 1979 in Barcelona. He spent his early years in Guanajuato, Mexico, and studied film editing and sound at the Centre d'Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Spain.

Escalante is known for his feature films *Sangre* (2005), *Los Bastardos* (2008), *Heli* (2013), which won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, *The Untamed* (2016), which received the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, and *Lost in the Night* (2023). He has also directed episodes of the series *Narcos: Mexico* (2018) and *Sugar* (2024).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sugar* (2024), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/sugar.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sugar* (2024), series, Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/sugar.md)
- *Lost in the Night* (2023), Writer, Producer, Director
- *Narcos: Mexico* (2018), series, as Man · Director
- *Death of a Fashion Photographer* (2018), Actor
- *Thirsty Lead* (2017), Writer
- *The Untamed* (2016), Screenplay, Director, Producer
- *Vidas violentas* (2015), Director
- *Spells and Magicians Chapter Six: Vehicle Park* (2015), Thanks
- *Spells and Magicians Chapter Four: 10 Seconds Away from Reality* (2015), Thanks
- *Slave* (2014), Director
- *Heli* (2013), Writer, Director
- *El cura Nicolás colgado* (2011), Director
- *Revolución* (2010), Director
- *The Bastards* (2008), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Blood* (2006), Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
- *Tied Up* (2002), Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Director

## Gallery

- ![Amat Escalante](https://film.one/media/person/1295527/gallery-9ca1342b5a5e.jpg) Amat Escalante — Canal22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Amat_Escalante_2023.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, during a presentation of his 2005 film "Sangre" at the Cine Tonalá in Tijuana, Mexico (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1295527/gallery-4d61bfe9befe.jpg) Mexican filmmaker Amat Escalante, during a presentation of his 2005 film "Sangre" at the Cine Tonalá in Tijuana, Mexico (2016) — Jaespinoza, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Amat_Escalante_-_2016.jpg/1280px-Amat_Escalante_-_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![(1:10) Amat Escalante en entrevista en el Festival de cine de Cannes 2023](https://film.one/media/person/1295527/gallery-24e61bcd63c6.jpg) (1:10) Amat Escalante en entrevista en el Festival de cine de Cannes 2023 — Canal22, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Amat_Escalante_Cannes_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Amat Escalante (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/1295527/gallery-50ab09c9c61d.jpg) Amat Escalante (2013) — Kayakr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Amat_Escalante_%288751869958%29.jpg/1280px-Amat_Escalante_%288751869958%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Amat Escalante](https://film.one/media/person/1295527/gallery-624b190e85d6.jpg) Amat Escalante — Image via TMDB

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