Damián Szifron is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter born on July 9, 1975, in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires. He came into contact with the world of cinema when he was a child, as his father was a great fan of the seventh art. During his teenage years, he specialized in media at the ORT Technical School, and later he studied directing at the Universidad de Cine.
Damian Szifrón's first film was The Bottom of the Sea, a dark comedy starring Dolores Fonzi, Daniel Hendler, and Gustavo Garzón. He produced, wrote, and directed the two seasons of Los Simuladores between 2002 and 2003. The series was a huge success in Argentina, it received numerous awards, and other adaptations of the same story were made in countries such as Mexico, Spain, Chile, and Russia. Finally, he became internationally known with the film Wild Tales. Starring Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Érica Rivas, and Leonardo Sbaraglia, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.
This year, Damian Szifrón returns to the big screen with To catch a killer, his first film shot in the United States with a wonderful Hollywood cast, including Shailene Woodley (Adrift) and Ben Mendelsohn. The film opens with a vicious attack in Baltimore by a lone gunman that leaves twenty-nine dead and not a single clue. Eleanor Falco, a reserved but talented low-ranking policewoman, is recruited by FBI Special Agent Geoffrey Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn) to join the team in charge of identifying and apprehending the killer. This is an American-made police thriller in which a policewoman and an FBI agent investigate a mass murder at the hands of a mysterious person.
To catch a killer will soon hit the big screen in Latin America.
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