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Jon Garaño

ヨン・ガラニョ　/　よん・がらにょ

Film director from Spain

November 18, 1974 (age 51)　・　Ergobia, Gipuzkoa, Spain

Gipuzkoa
film director
screenwriter
film editor

My Take

Jon Garaño is the kind of filmmaker I instinctively root for. A Basque from Gipuzkoa, he won the Goya for Best Original Screenplay for Giant and has been nominated three times for Best Director, for Giant, The Endless Trench and Marco. Working as writer, director and editor, he clearly builds his stories from the bone up. What draws me in is his rootedness: rather than chasing Hollywood gloss, he keeps telling stories steeped in the language and soil of his region. Filmmakers who carry a specific place and culture on their backs tend to make the most lasting work, and I think he's one of them.

Overview

Jon Garaño Arzalus (born 18 November 1974) is a Spanish 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).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jon Garaño
Name (Japanese): ヨン・ガラニョ
Reading: よん・がらにょ
Born: November 18, 1974 (age 51)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Tiger
Origin: Ergobia, Gipuzkoa, Spain
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
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Occupation: film director / screenwriter / film editor

2. Background

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3. Relationships

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4. Personality

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6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A7

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