Arantxa Aguirre
- Directing
- January 1, 1965 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Biography
Arantxa Aguirre Carballeira (Madrid, 1965) is a Spanish documentary director, screenwriter, and writer. The daughter of actress Enriqueta Carballeira and film director Javier Aguirre, she has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, working as an assistant director for filmmakers such as Mario Camus, Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura, and Luis García Berlanga, among others. She also holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and has published two books: 'Buñuel, lector de Galdós' (winner of the Pérez Galdós Research Prize in 2003) and '34 actores hablan de su oficio' (Ed. Cátedra, 2008), the latter a sequel to her documentary 'Hécuba, un sueño de pasión'.
Known for
Filmography
- Un tal Karlos · Director
- La conquista de la democracia · Director
- Freedom to Dreams · Writer, Director
- Zurbarán y sus doce hijos · Director
- El amor y la muerte · Writer, Director
- Dancing Beethoven · Director, Screenplay
- Una rosa para Soler · Director
- Gira por China · Director
- An American Swan in Paris · Director
- Béjart Ballet Lausanne au Palais Garnier · Writer, Director
- El esfuerzo y el ánimo · Director
- El primer siglo del Prado · Writer, Director
- Hécuba: un sueño de pasión · Director, Screenplay
- Un instante en la vida ajena · Writer
- Shadows in a Conflict · Assistant Director
- High Heels · Second Assistant Director
- Ay, Carmela! · Third Assistant Director