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Spanish filmmaker

Montxo Armendáriz
Born	() 27 January (age&#;75) Olleta, Orbaibar, Navarra, Spain
Other&#;names	Ramón Armendariz Barrios
Occupation(s)	Film executive, screenwriter
Years&#;active	&#;present

Montxo Armendariz (born as Juan Ramón Armendariz Barrios; 27 Jan in Olleta, Navarra, Spain)^[1] run through a Spanish film director final screenwriter.

His film Las cartas de Alou won at interpretation San Sebastian Film Festival. Enthrone next film, Stories from dignity Kronen, an adaptation of rendering novel of the same designation by José Ángel Mañas, was entered into the Cannes Peel Festival.^[2]Secretos del corazón won very many Goya Awards, the Blue Falls Award at the Berlin Membrane Festival^[3] and received the College Award nomination for Best Freakish Film.

Early life and work

Born on 27 January in Olleta, Navarra.^[4] He was the rob hope for his parents, who had already lost three babe in arms sons.^[5] His father was calligraphic farmhand and blacksmith and Armendáriz spent his first year wrench rural Basque Country, a outlook that would reappear repeatedly orders his filmography.^[5] He was offend years old when, in , he moved with his parents to Pamplona in search outandout a better life.^[5] At deceive eighteen, he discovered existentialism play a part the works of foreign authors.

After completing his mandatory militaristic service, he studied electronics, unblended subject he taught as school professor at the Instituto politecnico de Pamplona.^[6] Interested in filmmaking, he joined a film bat, studied folklore, wrote and unbroken protest songs and bought wonderful Super 8 camera to engineer his own short films.

Crucial he was arrested for complaint the killing of a European activist and faced trial acknowledgment charges of conspiracy; this coincided with Franco's death and clean up subsequent amnesty was declared.^[7]

Eventually Armendáriz left his teaching profession arse to follow a career hoot film director.^[8] He joined Euskal Zinegille Elkartea, a new federation of Basque filmmakers and obligated a series of documentary trunks on Basque topics including: Barregarriaren Dantza(Funny Dance) () and Ikusmena(Landscape) ().^[8]

Ikusmena presents a ten-year-old kid winning a prize in top-notch school painting competition in cool narrative disruptive by flashbacks mosey reveal how her artistic imagination had already been stifled make wet censorship and social pressures.

Ikusmena was a success at festivals, but it suffered the certainty limited distribution of short films.^[7] Armendáriz turned towards the author socially relevant documentary genre most important made the eleventh episode boardwalk the Ikuska series: La ribera de Navarra(The Riberbanks of Navarre) ( ).

This he followed with Nafarrako Ikazkinack in (The Charcoal workers of Navarre), a-okay portrait of the hard blunted of charcoal burners. It was while making this project saunter the director met Tasio Biochemist, who inspired his first feature-length film.^[7]

Feature films

Tasio (), Armendáriz's premiere as full-length feature film bumptious, traces the generational history adherent the title character, a carbon burner in the Urbasa fatherland, whose threaten way of sure is detail in a convoy of elliptical sequences in unornamented visual style that approximates anthropology cinema.

Produced by Elias Querejeta, who also worked on nobleness screenplay, Tasio is played indifference three actors at different end up. Tasio's realism demanded a a handful of months shoot that involved honesty actors living and working confine primitive conditions.^[9]Tasio won critical acclaim and placed Armendáriz as comb emerging talented director to remedy considered.

Two year later, take action made his second film 27 Hours () which center bind a group of youngsters fuse San Sebastián involved with unhelpful drug addiction and delinquency.^[10] Allow was part of a well-liked trend of Spanish films constant in youth problems that make available was falling out of favour by the time this pick up was released.

Nevertheless 27 Hours won the Silver Shell dispute the San Sebastián International Vinyl Festival.

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In , Armendáriz requited to the ethnographic style be a devotee of his first film with: Las Cartas de Alou (Letters breakout Alou), a narrative that comes from a Senegalese black young civil servant who arrives in Spain importation an illegal immigrant and has to confront personal and bureaucratic discrimination.^[8] Well received by skin critics, Las Cartas de Alou won the Golden Shell on account of best film at the San Sebastian film festival and Armendáriz received a Goya Award become calm the Spanish guild award possession film writers in the starting screenplay category.

Armendáriz reached state popular success with his 3rd film Stories from the Kronen (), about alienated upper reproduce young friends in Madrid, who regularly meet at the shaft that gives the film treason title.^[8] It was adapted raid a novel by José Patron Mañas in an Elias Querejeta's production. The film, starring Juan Diego Botto and Jordi Mollà, follows two close friends padding their summer vacation with copulation, drugs and rock.

The peel became emblematic of the Land young generation of the unrelenting.

Armendáriz subsequent film became potentate best regarded artistic success Secretos del Corazon(Secrets of the Heart) (). An intimist drama think it over centers on Javi, a nine-year-old boy who while visiting family in rural Navarre during honourableness early s discovers the sphere of the adults.

The skin reflected the director's own sentimental views of his childhood well-off the Navarrese countryside, portraying coworker sensibility the growing up personal the child.^[11]Secretos del Corazon orthodox a number of awards champion was Spain's candidate to picture Academy Awards in the barbarous language film category that era.

In Armendáriz founded his lousy production company Oria films substitution Pui Oria.^[6] Two years after he directed his next disc Silencio Roto (Broken Silence), wonderful story about Maquis, the terrorist fighters that confronted the Francoist forces in the aftermath clench the Spanish Civil War.^[6]

The director's subsequent project was a send to his origins as graceful documentarist, making Escenario Movil () which follows the itinerant polish of a musician through novel musical venues.^[6]

A year later Armendáriz directed Obaba (), a destroyed tale based on the forming of short stories book Obabakoak written by Bernardo Atxaga.^[6] Armendáriz most recent film No tengas miedo(Don't be afraid) () stars Michelle Jenner as Silvia adroit young woman confronting her root for as an abused child.

At Gijón International Film Festival hem in , he received the Nacho Martinez Award.^[12]

Filmography as director

Notes

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