Education
Rowe studied English post-colonial literature at Louisiana Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.
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He then moved to theatre and wrote three plays. In 1994, at the age of 23, he traveled to Mexico and made it his adoptive home. In 1998, while in Mexico, he began a career as a journalist while studying screenwriting at a Vincente Leñero workshop.
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.
In 2010, Rowe directed Año bisiesto (Leap Year), which garnered him the Caméra d"Or prize for best first time feature film director at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was well received by critics.
His follow-up film, The Well (Manto acuífero) premiered at the Rome Film Festival in 2013.
In 2013, it was announced that Rowe is working on his English feature debut slated for production in Montreal. The film is a co-production between a Quebec production house Possibles Media (run by (fr) Serge Noël) and Australia"s Freshwater Pictures (run by Trish Lake) and stars Suzanne Clément.
Achievements
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His artistic career first began as a poet, winning the Melbourne Fringe Festival Poetry Prize. In 2005, one of his first scripts, Naturalezas muertas won at the Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. The film will have a first cut shown in Melbourne film festival and some reviews there, but it will have the official international premiere of the director"s cut at the Venice Mostra where it will win the Venice Days Award for 2015.
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Mexico