Guillermo Arriaga

Guillermo Arriaga Jordán ( born March 13, 1958 in Mexico City) is an award winning Mexican author, screenwriter, film director and producer. In 2005 he was awarded the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 for the screenplay for the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Life

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

Arriaga completed his studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana with a Bachelor in Communications and a Masters in History, and taught courses in media studies, before he moved to the ITESM. Arriaga describes himself as a " hunter that works as a writer".

Guillermo Arriaga was planning to rotate together with Alejandro González Iñárritu eleven short films about the contradictions in Mexico City. After three years and 36 drafts they rejected the original plan, however, and built three story lines to the script of the film Amores Perros (1999) from. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film and a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the Critics Week Grand Prize and Young Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, as well as many other awards.

The success of Amores Perros, Iñárritu and Arriaga gave an invitation to the U.S. to shooting the film for Focus Features 21 grams, including Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Del Toro and Watts were nominated for her performance in 21 grams each for an Oscar. Arriaga received a BAFTA nomination for his film script.

Iñárritu and Arriaga 2006 presented their third film together, Babel, done. The work is completed with Amores Perros and 21 Grams, a trilogy on the themes of violence and death. However, it was during the filming of a rift between Arriaga and Iñárritu; Arriaga was then forced to stay away from the shooting and was not allowed to participate in the premiere at the film festival in Cannes. The film earned Arriaga 2007 Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in.

In 2008 he received for The Burning Plain, his debut as a feature film director, an invitation to the competition of the 65th Venice Film Festival 2008. He is a member of the jury of the 67th International Film Festival of Venice in 2010.

Arriaga is one of the Academia de Artes in Mexico City.

Others

Guillermo Arriaga was dramaturgical consultant by Fatih Akın on his film on the other side.

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter

  • 2000: Amores Perros
  • 2003: 21 grams ( 21 Grams )
  • 2005: Three Burials - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada )
  • 2006: Babel
  • 2008: The Burning Plain ( The Burning Plain )

Director

  • The sweet smell of death ( Un dulce olor a muerte ), ISBN 3-293-20239- X
  • Retorno 201: Cuentos, ISBN 978-84-96326-20-0
  • El bufalo de la noche ISBN 84-96326-18-7
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