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Michel Gaztambide (born 1959) is a French-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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