Bio
Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963- ) is a Mexican film director.
He started his career as a DJ in 1984 at the top-rated Mexican radio station WFM. In 1988 he began composing music for six Mexican feature films, including Garra de Tigre (1989).
He studied filmmaking in Maine and Los Angeles, under film director Ludwig Margules and studied directing under Judith Weston in Los Angeles.
In the nineties he was in charge of production in a Mexican TV company, Televisa, and when he was tenty-seven years old he had become one of their youngest directors.
In 1991, after Televisa, he set up Zeta Films, a society for producing advertising and short films as well as television programs and started writing and shooting TV comercials.
His first half-lenght feature, Detrás del Dinero, was produced in 1995 for Televisa and starred Spanish actor and singer Miguel Bosé.
With screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga he planned to make 11 shorts showing the contradictions of Mexico City. After three years and thirty-six drafts, they ended up expanding three stories into the feature lenght film Amores Perros (1999).
He made the final short (Powder Kreg) in the BMW The Hire series and directed the Mexico segment of the independent feature 11'09'01 - September 11 (2002), a collective movie about the influence of 9-11 on the world with Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Amos Gitai and Sean Penn.
The success of Amores Perros won Iñárritu an invitation to the U.S. to direct the English language film 21 Grams for Universal. Again written by Guillermo Arriaga, It started Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Del Toro and Watts received Academy Awards nominations for their performances.
He currently directed his new film Babel, which consists of four stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. It is due for commercial release in 2006 and stars Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning, Rinko Kikuchi, Brad Pitt and Kôji Yakusho.
He started his career as a DJ in 1984 at the top-rated Mexican radio station WFM. In 1988 he began composing music for six Mexican feature films, including Garra de Tigre (1989).
He studied filmmaking in Maine and Los Angeles, under film director Ludwig Margules and studied directing under Judith Weston in Los Angeles.
In the nineties he was in charge of production in a Mexican TV company, Televisa, and when he was tenty-seven years old he had become one of their youngest directors.
In 1991, after Televisa, he set up Zeta Films, a society for producing advertising and short films as well as television programs and started writing and shooting TV comercials.
His first half-lenght feature, Detrás del Dinero, was produced in 1995 for Televisa and starred Spanish actor and singer Miguel Bosé.
With screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga he planned to make 11 shorts showing the contradictions of Mexico City. After three years and thirty-six drafts, they ended up expanding three stories into the feature lenght film Amores Perros (1999).
He made the final short (Powder Kreg) in the BMW The Hire series and directed the Mexico segment of the independent feature 11'09'01 - September 11 (2002), a collective movie about the influence of 9-11 on the world with Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Amos Gitai and Sean Penn.
The success of Amores Perros won Iñárritu an invitation to the U.S. to direct the English language film 21 Grams for Universal. Again written by Guillermo Arriaga, It started Benicio del Toro, Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. Del Toro and Watts received Academy Awards nominations for their performances.
He currently directed his new film Babel, which consists of four stories set in Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico and Japan. It is due for commercial release in 2006 and stars Adriana Barraza, Gael García Bernal, Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning, Rinko Kikuchi, Brad Pitt and Kôji Yakusho.
