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.

Biography Born in 1959 in Apt, Vaucluse, France, he was raised in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. He later relocated to San Sebastián.

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. 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 (2008), (2010), (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.