David Pablos
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Pablos at the Paseo de la Fama induction in Tijuana, Mexico (2016)
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September 11, 1983 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico |
| Other names | David de Don Pablos |
| Alma mater | Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica |
| Occupation | Director, editor, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2007–present |
David Pablos (born September 11, 1983) is a director, editor and screenwriter. An active filmmaker since 2007, Pablos has been involved in six feature films, including shorts and documentaries. Pablos attained recognition for directing La Vida Después (2013) and Las Elegidas (2015).
Pablos has worked with non-professional actors on his narrative films, for which he has received awards at several international film festivals, including the Morelia International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival. Pablos received an Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction Film in 2010 for La Canción de los Niños Muertos and in 2016, won for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 58th Ariel Awards in Mexico for his work in the film Las Elegidas.
Pablos was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and studied filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC) in Mexico City. Pablos also received a scholarship granted by the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) to specialize in screenwriting.
The type of films I like are the ones on which the filmmakers have their own voice and take risks, using the camera as an expansive tool, I think the camera should take the intent of the scene and I like to put a camera where it can tell you more about what happens and is not limited to display it. I am very attached to the composition, with the frames, I'm very obsessive on that part, because to me everything has to do with emotion, because it is what dictates the planes and everything.
Pablos earned his academic degree from the CCC with the short film La Canción de los Niños Muertos in 2008. The film about five teenagers who lose their mother, starring Sebastián Aguirre and Rodrigo Azuela, won for Best Fiction Short Film at the Morelia International Film Festival and was screened during the International Critics' Week of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. For this work, Pablos earned the Ariel Award for Best Live Action Short and also the SIGNIS Award during the 4th International Short Film Festival (FICMEX), being the SIGNIS jury's verdict that "the film narrative takes us into the complexity of disparate feelings as violence and tenderness, anger and forgiveness, rebellion and reconciliation." After directing the documentaries La Escritura en la Pared and Una Frontera, Todas las Fronteras (2010), Pablos premiered in 2013 his first feature film, La Vida Después, also starring Azuela, Américo Hollander and María Renée Prudencio. The film, about two brothers searching for their stranged mother, received the Klic Award granted by the Mexican movie theater chain Cinépolis during the Morelia Film Festival.La Vida Después was the only Mexican film screened during the 70th Venice International Film Festival and according to Pablos is about "living in the same roof with a complete stranger, although that is your family... it has to do with the lack of communication". About the thematic similarities between his first short film and his first feature film, Pablos stated to magazine Encuadres:
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