Gorka Vázquez

Number member of the Spanish Music Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated in Fine Arts in 1998 specialising in audiovisuals. During the time he spent at university he recorded his first shorts, which went round competition circuits and were shown on local TV stations. At this stage he worked on and contributed to various other audiovisual projects, such as several institutional video features for the Basque Government. However he also continued to work as a cartoonist and colourist for local and national magazines and fanzines, and his collaborations with the cartoon artist Rober Garay are especially worth mentioning. He also gave classes on drawing comics at various cultural centres, and worked as a freelance poster and leaflet designer. When he finished his degree, together with Koldo Serra he wrote and directed the short film, «Amor de Madre», shot on 35mm, which was screened at numerous national and international festivals and to date has been awarded 8 prizes by critics and the public. In 1999 he started working as a multimedia and website designer for Euskaltel. Two years later he switched to the world of cartoons where he worked as a copywriter, scriptwriter, editor, a models and bkgs artist and an animator, at Tectoon, Bitart and Imira Entertainment, and he contributed to various internationally distributed projects and television series: "Cloud Trotters", "Lola & Virginia", "Sandra the Fairytale Detective", among others. Directing his own projects in addition to what he had learned about animation brought him closer to the world of music and videos. He directed his first piece of work for the band, Fito & Fitipaldis, commissioned by Last tour international: an animated video to present the "Por la boca vive el pez" tour in 2006-07. It was shown at the start of the 150 concerts that made up the tour. Shortly afterwards he made his first video as a freelance director for the same band, on the Warner Music Spain label, produced by Álvaro González Carranceja. Since then he has scripted and directed videos and animated films for groups like MClan, Melendi, Canteca de Macao or Rise to Fall. The video "Antes de que cuente diez", for Fito&fitipaldis is especially worth mentioning as it was nominated for best video of the year in 2009 at the 40 Principales Music Awards and at the Music Awards presented by the Spanish Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. In 2010, Spanish Goya award's winning Baleuko, responsible of the first European animated movie "Megasonicos", calls him to direct his first two movies: "Olentzero eta Iratxoen Jauntxoa" (2011) and "The Wish Fish" (2012); this last one co-directed with Ivan Oneka.