Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker, film director and film professor in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] He has directed five feature-length, fiction films to date: A Silent Love (2004), Imitation (2006), The Skeptic (L'Incrédule) (2012), Le Concierge (2014) and The Great Traveller (2019), as well as a feature-length documentary, New Tricks (2009). All five of these films were produced by Atopia (film studio).
A Silent Love, co-written with his wife Paulina Robles, was nominated for a Genie Award for best original screenplay and was accepted to the Sundance Film Festival.[2] It also won the Best Screenplay Award at 2004 Brooklyn International Film Festival.[3] Variety wrote that the film "offers a diverting spin on the mail-order-bride premise, making a charming feature debut for writer-director Federico Hidalgo and co-writer Paulina Robles (Hidalgo's wife)."[4]
Hidalgo is both a graduate of and professor at the Concordia University Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema,[5] as well as a part-time professor in the department of communication studies.
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