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Arturo Pérez Torres

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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]

He is married to Aviva Armour-Ostroff, his codirector of both The Drawer Boy and Lune.[4]

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