Michael Rowe (born 1971 inBallarat,Australia) is an Australian film director and screenwriter.
Rowe studied English post-colonial literature atLa Trobe University inMelbourne, Australia. His artistic career first began as a poet, winning the Melbourne Fringe Festival Poetry Prize. He then moved to theatre and wrote three plays. In 1994, at the age of 23, he traveled toMexico and made it his adoptive home.[1] In 1998, while in Mexico, he began a career as a journalist while studying screenwriting at aVincente Leñero workshop. In 2005, one of his first scripts,Naturalezas muertas won at theInstituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. In 2006, he directed his first short film,Cacahuates.Silencio followed in 2007. Though English is his native language, the bulk of his film work is done in Spanish.[2]
In 2010, Rowe directedAño bisiesto (Leap Year), which garnered him theCaméra d'Or prize for best first time feature film director at theCannes Film Festival.[3][4] The film was well received by critics.[5]
His follow-up film,The Well (Manto acuífero) premiered at theRome Film Festival in 2013.[6]
In 2013, it was announced that Rowe was working on his English-language feature debut slated for production inMontreal, Quebec, Canada.[7] The film,Early Winter, is a co-production between a Quebec production house,Possibles Media,[8] (run bySerge Noël), and Australia's Freshwater Pictures (run byTrish Lake), and starsSuzanne Clément. The film had a first cut shown at the Melbourne film festival where it was reviewed, but the official international premiere of the director's cut was at theVenice Mostra where it won theVenice Days Award for 2015.[citation needed]
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