Damián Szifron (Argentine Spanish: [daˈmjan siˈfɾon]; born 9 July 1975) is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the TV series Los simuladores (2002),[1] the most successful TV series in the history of Argentina, and writer-director of Wild Tales (2014), the most successful film in the history of Argentina.

[2] On 18 March 2022, Paramount announced a film based on Los simuladores, directed by Szifron, programmed for 2024.

Born to a Jewish family,[3] Szifron studied cinema with the film theory writer Angel Faretta.

Szifron was the writer and director of Hermanos y detectives ("Brothers and Detectives"), the follow-up series to the hugely popular Los simuladores ("The Pretenders").

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