14 Facts About David Pablos

David Pablos was born on July 28,1983 and is a Mexican director, editor and screenwriter.

An active filmmaker since 2007, Pablos has been involved in six feature films, including shorts and documentaries.

David Pablos attained recognition for directing La Vida Despues and Las Elegidas.

David 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.

David Pablos received an Ariel Award for Best Short Fiction Film in 2010 for La Cancion de los Ninos 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.

David Pablos was born in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico and studied filmmaking at the Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica in Mexico City.

David Pablos received a scholarship granted by the National Fund for Culture and Arts to specialize in screenwriting.

About the thematic similarities between his first short film and his first feature film, David Pablos stated to magazine Encuadres:.

David Pablos directed 20 y Mas por el Arte, a TV series created to celebrate Canal 22's 20th Anniversary in 2013.

Later that year, after an exhaustive casting process, David Pablos filmed Las Elegidas in Tijuana with non-professional actors.

The film was originally based on a book written by Mexican novelist Jorge Volpi from which David Pablos developed a screenplay that features a love story that evolves in a complaint about kidnapping, white slave traffic and prostitution, with a "documentary tone".

The film opened theatrically in Mexico on 14 theaters, which according to David Pablos was "poor", and a week later was streamed internationally by Netflix.

Thanks to this distribution deal, David Pablos was contacted by British band White Lies to hire him to direct a music video for the track "Take It Out On Me", the lead single of their album Friends, after Harry McVeigh, lead singer of the band, watched Las Elegidas.

In 2016, David Pablos worked on the film adaptation of the novel Los Detectives Salvajes written by Chilean author Roberto Bolano.