Federico Hidalgo is a filmmaker, film director and film professor in

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, Canada. He has directed five feature-length, fiction films to date: ''

A Silent Love ''A Silent Love'' ( es, Un amor silencioso) is a 2004 Canadian (Quebec) film written and directed by Federico Hidalgo and produced by Atopia. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 then opened in a limited release on ...

'' (2004), ''

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'' (2006), ''The Skeptic (L'Incrédule)'' (2012), ''Le Concierge'' (2014) and ''The Great Traveller'' (2019), as well as a feature-length documentary, ''

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'' (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

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for best original screenplay and was accepted to the

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. It also won the Best Screenplay Award at 2004

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. ''

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'' 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)." Hidalgo is both a graduate of and professor at the

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, as well as a part-time professor in the department of

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Atopia Web site biography
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