Aitor Merino y Amaia Merino
Year of residence
He has developed his career primarily as a film, theatre and television actor, working on more than twenty films under directors Montxo Armendáriz, Pilar Miró, Vicente Aranda, Carlos Saura Medrano, Manuel Matji and Icíar Bollaín, among others. His first short film as a director, El Pan Nuestro, received awards at a number of national and international festivals and was nominated for the Goya Awards. Asier eta biok (Asier and I), co-directed with his sister Amaia Merino, was his first feature film. He is currently combining his work as an actor with the feature-length documentary project FANTASÍA, co-directed again with Amaia Merino.
Filmography:
2008 - El Pan Nuestro
2011 - Más allá del Mall
2013 - Asier ETA biok (Asier Y yo)
During their stay in San Sebastian, Aitor and Amaia used the Tabakalera resources to review, document and contrast all the filmed material. Fantasía, produced by Doxa Producciones, is currently in a shooting stage.
