Aitor Arregi Galdos
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- Filmmaker
- Screenwriter
Aitor Arregi Galdos | |
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 Arregi at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024) | |
| Born | 20 May 1977 Oñati, Basque Country, Spain |
| Education | Mondragon University (BBA) |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
Aitor Arregi Galdos (born 20 May 1977) is a Spaniard Basque filmmaker and screenwriter. He won the Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2017 film Giant and has been nominated for the Goya Award for Best Director three times, for Giant, The Endless Trench (2019) and Marco, the Invented Truth (2024).
Arregi was born in the Basque town of Oñati. After graduating in Business Administration from Mondragon University, he studied filmmaking at the Sarobe Centro de Artes Escénicas.[1]
In 2002, Arregi started the film production company Moriarti Produkzioak together with Asier Acha, Xabier Berzosa, Jon Garaño, Jorge Gil, and Jose Maria Goenaga. The company is based in Pasaia.[1] The productions of Moriarti Produkzioak are characterised by teamwork, including directing, and by the exchange of roles between the members.
Since 2008, Arregi has also been a lecturer in audiovisual communication at Mondragon University.[2]