Early Winter

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"At the end of the day, happiness and living well don't have a whole lot to do with circumstances, but rather with knowing how to be happy and how to interact with the people around you. I think we often get trapped in these emotional cycles... These are issues I explore in Early Winter. [...] As a scriptwriter and director, it's so wonderful and enriching to build a narrative together with two people who have also been building and structuring characters for 20 years, and are experts at it. I don't understand why more directors don't work this way." [Michael Rowe]

MICHAEL ROWE studied English post-colonial literature at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He started his artistic career as a poet, winning the Melbourne Fringe Festival Poetry Prize. He then moved to theater and wrote three plays. In 1994, at the age of 23, he traveled to Mexico and made it his adoptive home. In 1998, while in Mexico, he began a career as a journalist while studying screenwriting at a Vincente Leñero workshop. In 2006, he directed his first short film, Cacahuates. Silencio followed in 2007. In 2010, he directed Leap Year, which garnered him the Camera d'Or prize for Best Debut Feature at Cannes. His follow-up film, The Well, premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2013.

2015 Early Winter

2013 Manto Acuifero (The Well)

2010 Año Bisiesto (Leap Year)

2007 Silencio (short)

2006 Cacahuates (short)