Adrián García Bogliano (b. 1980, Madrid, Spain) was raised in the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he grew up influenced by his parents' cinephilia and his own passion for the violent and savage cinema of the 1970's and 80's. A pioneer in Argentinian independent genre filmmaking for nearly a decade, Bogliano's indie films include 2004's Room for Tourists (Habitaciones para turistas), 2005's Scream at Night (Grité una noche), 2006's 36 Steps (36 Pasos), 2008'sI'll Never Die Alone (No moriré sola), and 2009's Watch 'em Die (Masacre, esta noche), which was a Mexican co-production.
Bogliano's wide variety of work won numerous awards and accolades at horror and fantasy film festivals around the world. Scoring rave reviews in The New York Times and Austin Chronicle, the director sold the US remake rights to his first film and brought the horror genre back to Central America with 2010's The Accursed (Donde Duerme el horror), a thriller so popular in Cost Rica that, on its opening weekend, beat Sex in the City 2 at the box office. Also in 2010, Bogliano shot two movies supported by the Argentinean Film Institute and produced by major production companies – Cold Sweat (Sudor Frío) and Penumbra. Cold Sweat was released in February of 2011, breaking a fifty-year absence of horror movies produced and released theatrically in Argentina. It would go on to become the biggest Argentinian box office hit of First Quarter, 2011, and eventually be released to great acclaim in the United States by MPI Home Video.
Penumbra, another worldwide festival favorite, was ultimately released in US theaters by IFC Films in April, 2012. 2012 would also see the release of The ABCs of Death, an alphabet-themed 26-part horror anthology from Magnet Releasing and Drafthouse Films, which Bogliano directed a segment of. Following that, the writer and director shot his first American co-production, Here Comes the Devil, in Tijuana, Mexico with Chicago-based MPI Media Group/Dark Sky Films. In 2014, Bogliano premiered Late Phases, his English language directorial debut, produced by Site B, Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix. A werewolf film starring Nick Damici, Lance Guest, Ethan Embry, Tom Noonan and Erin Cummings.
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