Imanol Uribe | |
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San Salvador, El Salvador | 28 February 1950
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Imanol Uribe (born 28 February 1950) is a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He won the Goya Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay for the 1994 thriller Running Out of Time. [1]
Born in San Salvador on 28 February 1950 to parents from Biscay, Uribe was raised since age 7 in Biscay. [2] After earning a licentiate degree in journalism, he joined the Escuela Oficial de Cine , leaving the latter with a reputation of politically combative filmmaker. [3] From 1982 to 2004, he was married to María Barranco, whom with he has had one child in common. [2] [4] He has won the Goya Award for Best Director for Días contados as well as the San Sebastian Film Festival's Golden Shell for Bwana.