Isaac Ezban

Isaac Ezban is a filmmaker from Mexico, co-founder of the production company Red Elephant Films and Autocinema Coyote (the biggest drive-in theater chain in Mexico). He wrote 4 short novels before becoming a full time filmmaker, starting with 10 short films awarded in important international festivals. His first feature film The Incident (2014), a psychological sci-fi thriller about characters trapped in an infinite staircase and an infinite road, premiered at Cannes Film Festival and then played at Fantastic Fest & Sitges, and in over 45 festivals over the world, wining 16 awards and with positive reviews of important press and filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro, who commented on it: "A potent and ingenious riddle and a promising debut for Isaac Ezban... A complicated idea but very well structured.. A great debut! Very, very ambitious and still it achieves everything it wants. Ezban is a necessary director in genre films in Mexico". His second feature film The Similars (2015), described by him as his love letter to the sci-fi of the 60s, also premiered at Fantastic Fest & Sitges, making Isaac the first director in the history of Mexico to have 2 films in 2 years in a row in Official Selection at the two most important genre festivals in the globe. It won in Sitges Best Latinamerican Film and in Morbido the Press Award, as well as other 15 awards. After their theatrical releases, Isaac's first films The Incident and The Similars are now available on Netflix Worlwide. In 2016, Isaac was hired by BRON Studios to direct his third movie (and first English spoken film) Parallel, for which he traveled to Vancouver. This awaited sci-fi thriller/drama about a group of friends that stumble upon a portal to a "multiverse", starting Martin Wallstrom, Aml Ameen, Georgia King, Mark O'Brien and Kathleen Quinlan, is about to be released this year. Represented by CAA and Good Fear Management, Isaac is currently working on more screenplays of his own, and has also just been hired by Sony Pictures to direct the awaited adaptation of Dan Simmons's classic horror novel Summer Of Night.