Michel Gaztambide
Michel Gaztambide (born 1959) is a France-born screenwriter based in the Basque Country, Spain. He is a recurring collaborator of Enrique Urbizu.
Michel Gaztambide
- Born
- 1959 · Apt.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- screenwriter · poet · manufacturer · director
- Known for
- Close Your Eyes · La Influencia · No Rest for the Wicked · The Vault
- Honours
- Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay
- Languages
- Basque · French · Spanish
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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.
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Jaume Claret Muxart is recorded as having studied under Michel Gaztambide. The recorded working language is Basque, French and Spanish. Works named in the authority record are Close Your Eyes, La Influencia, No Rest for the Wicked and The Vault. Distinctions recorded are Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Born in 1959 in Apt, Vaucluse, France, he was raised in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. He later relocated to San Sebastián. Early writing credits include Santa Cruz, el cura guerrillero and Chatarra. His work in Julio Medem's 1992 film Vacas earned him a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay. 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. The collaboration included films such as Life Marks (2003), and No Rest for the Wicked (2011; for which he won the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay) as well as television series such as Gigantes and Libertad. He has also worked in Un poco de chocolate (2008), El idioma imposible (2010), Baztan (film) (2012), Petra (2018, for which he was nominated to the Feroz Award for Best Screenplay), The Influence (2019), and The Vault (2021). In 2022, he was disclosed as a co-writer of Víctor Erice's project Cerrar los ojos.
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- 1.Lakunza, Rosana. Michel Gaztambide: "El oficio de guionista es una carrera de subidas y bajadas". Deia. 28 June 2021.
- 2.Michel Gaztambide inaugura en San Sebastián el ciclo 'Charlando con .'. El País. 4 October 2001.
- 3.Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Vacas. premiosgoya.com.
- 4.Méndez-Leite, Fernando. La vida mancha. Fotogramas. 29 May 2008.
- 5.Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. No habrá paz para los malvados. premiosgoya.com.
- 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. Baztan. Para amantes del cine en el cine. Fotogramas. 27 September 2012.
- 9.Prats, Marina. La lista completa de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2019. HuffPost. 19 January 2019.
- 10.Cortijo, Javier. La influencia. Cinemanía. 18 June 2019.
- 11.Michel Gaztambide, mentor de FIRE!! LAB. Audiovisual451. 3 February 2022.
- 12.Belinchón, Gregorio. 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. 10 July 2022.
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