Michel Gaztambide

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Michel Gaztambide (born 1959) is a France-born screenwriter based in the Basque Country, Spain. He is a recurring collaborator of Enrique Urbizu.

Biography

Born in 1959 in Apt, Vaucluse, France, he was raised in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. [1] [2] He later relocated to San Sebastián. [1] Early writing credits include Santa Cruz, el cura guerrillero  [ eu ] and Chatarra. [1] His work in Julio Medem's 1992 film Vacas earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay. [3]

After a period working in television for ETB, he returned to cinema in 2002 with the writing credits of Box 507 , marking the beginning of a recurring partnership with Basque filmmaker Enrique Urbizu. [1] The collaboration included films such as Life Marks (2003), [4] and No Rest for the Wicked (2011; for which he won the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay) [5] as well as television series such as Gigantes and Libertad . [6]

He has also worked in Un poco de chocolate  [ es ] (2008), El idioma imposible  [ es ] (2010), [7] Baztan  [ eu ] (2012), [8] Petra (2018, for which he was nominated to the Feroz Award for Best Screenplay), [9] The Influence (2019), [10] and The Vault (2021). [11]

In 2022, he was disclosed as a co-writer of Víctor Erice's project Cerrar los ojos . [12]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Michel Gaztambide inaugura en San Sebastián el ciclo 'Charlando con ...'". El País . 4 October 2001.
  3. ↑ "Vacas". premiosgoya.com . Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España . Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  4. ↑ Méndez-Leite, Fernando (29 May 2008). "La vida mancha". Fotogramas .
  5. ↑ "No habrá paz para los malvados". premiosgoya.com . Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España . Retrieved 14 July 2022.
  6. ↑ ""Libertad", el ambicioso proyecto de Enrique Urbizu". Diario del Alto Aragón. 22 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Michel Gaztambide recibirá el Premio Zinemira". EiTB . 29 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Vidal, Nuria (27 September 2012). "Baztan. Para amantes del cine en el cine". Fotogramas .
  9. ↑ Prats, Marina (19 January 2019). "La lista completa de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2019". HuffPost .
  10. ↑ Cortijo, Javier (18 June 2019). "La influencia". Cinemanía – via 20minutos.es.
  11. ↑ "Michel Gaztambide, mentor de FIRE!! LAB". Audiovisual451. 3 February 2022.
  12. ↑ Belinchón, Gregorio (10 July 2022). "El regreso de Víctor Erice al cine comercial será un drama nostálgico sobre la amistad entre un veterano director y su actor protagonista". El País .


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