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Julio Medem (b. 1958)

Alias:
Julio Medem
Julio Médem

Birthplace:
Donostia-San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Born:
October 21, 1958

Biography from TheMovieDB

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Julio Medem (born 21 October 1958) is a Spanish writer and film director. Medem was born in San Sebastián, Basque Country and showed an interest in movies since childhood, when he would take his father's Super 8 camera and shoot at night, while nobody was paying attention. After college graduation (where he earned degrees in Medicine and General Surgery) he worked as a film critic and later as a screenwriter, assistant director and editor. After a few shorts he directed his first full length feature, Vacas ('Cows') for which he won a Goya Award. After this film he directed The Red Squirrel and Earth, both receiving good reviews at Cannes. In his next movie, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, which has been compared to the works of Krzysztof Kieślowski, he explored circular narrative and a taste for minimalistic textures that he then overcame in his next film, Sex and Lucia, where the plot dissolves into a very lyrical eroticism. After this film he took a tangent from his style to direct and produce La pelota vasca ('The Basque Ball'), a documentary film about the political problems of the Basque Country, which caused a furor amongst Spain's right wing politicians. Following this, his film Caótica Ana debuted in 2007.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Julio Medem, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Author:
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?

Director:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Editor:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Executive Producer:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Producer:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2009  Me Too
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Production Director:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2007  Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2009  Me Too
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Screenplay:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2007  Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2009  Me Too
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Story:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2007  Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2009  Me Too
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

Writer:
1985  Patas en la Cabeza
1987  Six on the Dot
1988  Martín
1992  Cows
1993  The Red Squirrel
1995  Hi, Are You Alone?
1996  Earth
1998  Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001  Sex and Lucía
2003  The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
2004  La culpa del alpinista
2004  With Good Reason
2007  Chaotic Ana
2007  Uno por ciento, esquizofrenia
2009  Me Too
2010  Room in Rome
2012  7 Days in Havana
2015  ma ma
2016  Kalebegiak
2017  The Pelota Player and the Fallera
2018  The Tree of Blood
????  8
????  Minotaur: Picasso and the Women of Guernica

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