Arturo Pérez Torres is a Mexican-born Canadian film director and
screenwriter. 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.Born and raised
in Mexico City, 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.
screenwriter. 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.Born and raised
in Mexico City, 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.
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