Guillermo Arriaga

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Guillermo Arriaga (2017)

Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (born March 13, 1958 in Mexico City ) is an award-winning Mexican writer , screenwriter , film director and producer. It was established in 2005 with the Best Screenplay Award of the Film Festival of Cannes in 2005 for the screenplay for the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada excellent.

Life

Arriaga was born in Mexico City in 1958 and spent his childhood in one of the most violent neighborhoods in the city. At the age of 13, he lost his sense of smell after a brutal street fight .

Arriaga graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana with a bachelor's degree in communications and a master's degree in history , and taught courses in media studies before moving to ITESM . Arriaga describes himself as a "hunter that works as a writer".

Arriaga in Guadalajara

Guillermo Arriaga planned to shoot eleven short films with Alejandro González Iñárritu about the contradictions in Mexico City. After three years and 36 drafts, however, they discarded the original plan and developed three storylines for the script for the film Amores Perros (1999). The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film as well as a BAFTA Award for Best Non-English Language Film , the Critics Week Grand Prize and the Young Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, as well as many other awards.

The success of Amores Perros brought Arriaga and Iñárritu an invitation to the USA to shoot the film 21 grams for Focus Features , with Benicio del Toro , Naomi Watts and Sean Penn , among others . Del Toro and Watts were each nominated for an Oscar for their acting performance in 21 grams . Arriaga received a BAFTA nomination for his film script.

Iñárritu and Arriaga completed their third film together, Babel , in 2006 . With Amores Perros and 21 grams, the work completes a trilogy on the themes of violence and death. However, there was a falling out between Arriaga and Iñárritu during the shooting; Arriaga then had to stay away from filming and was also not allowed to take part in the premiere at the Cannes Film Festival . The film earned Arriaga an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 2007 .

In 2008 he received an invitation to compete at the 65th Venice Film Festival for On Burning Earth , his debut as a feature film director . He is a member of the jury of the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010. He also wrote the story and co-produced Lorenzo Vigas ' award-winning feature film debut Caracas, Eine Liebe (2015), which won the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival .

His novel Salvar el fuego was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in 2020 .

Arriaga is a member of the Academia de Artes in Mexico City.

Others

Guillermo Arriaga was Fatih Akın's dramaturgical advisor on his film On the Other Side .

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter

Director

  • 1997: Campeones sin límite (short documentary)
  • 2000: Rogelio (short film)
  • 2008: The Burning Plain (The Burning Plain)

Books

Web links

Commons : Guillermo Arriaga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mexican wave goes on after clash of auteurs
  2. ↑ cf. Vivarelli, Nick: Venice Film Festival announces Slate ( Memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), July 29, 2008 (accessed July 30, 2008)
  3. ↑ GUILLERMO ARRIAGA Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2020 , epicuro.es, accessed on April 19, 2020
  4. ^ Academia de Artes-Artes Escénicos
  5. ↑ Interview of the NDR with Fatih Akin from September 20, 2006 ( Memento from April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Patrick Wellinski: Guillermo Arriaga: "The Wild" Orphan Boy Tames Wolfhound - and vice versa , review on Deutschlandfunk Kultur from November 7, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Arriaga, Guillermo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guillermo Arriaga Jordán (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican writer, screenwriter, film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico City , Mexico