Pablo Stoll

Born: 1974-10-13

Birthplace: Montevideo, Uruguay

Biography

Pablo Stoll (born 1974) is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, there he met Juan Pablo Rebella and producer Fernando Epstein, and the three of them founded Ctrl Z. After graduating in 1999 he and Rebella directed their first feature film, 25 Watts (2001), it went on to win several international awards. In 2004 Stoll and Rebella released their second feature film, Whisky. It premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival opening to much acclaim, receiving the Un Certain Regard award. Stoll's first film following Rebella's suicide, Hiroshima (2009), is "a silent musical" in which all verbal communication was reduced to brief intertitles. His film 3 was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.