After graduating with a degree in Information Science from the University of the Basque Country, Enrique Urbizu directed his first film Your Girlfriend is Crazy in 1987, a comedy starring well known actors, Antonio Resines and María Barranco. In 1991, he went on to direct his first thriller, Anything for Bread.
Urbizu left the Basque Country and headed for Madrid, where he directed two comedies for the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez; How to be Miserable and Enjoy It in 1994 and Infidelity in 1995. During this same period, he adapted and directed Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel Cachito for the big screen. This adaptation gave him the opportunity to work on of another of the author's novels, The Club Dumas. This second adaptation became the film The Ninth Gate, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Johnny Depp.
In 2001, he directed the thriller Box 507, with Antonio Resines and Jose Coronado as the protagonists. The film won two Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars) as well as several other international awards. The following year he went back to work with Jose Coronado on the film Life Marks, which was nominated for two Goyas and won the Jules Verne award at the Festival du Cinema Espagnol in Nantes.
In 2006, he participated in Telecinco Films series of TV horror movies 6 Films to Keep You Awake, for which he directed the film A Real Friend, which then went on to be distributed in the USA by ionsgate. He has been an associate teacher for seven years at Carlos III University and also teaches several courses at prestigious film schools in Spain.
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