Antxón Gómez

Antxon Gomez was born in 1952. Brought up in the Basque region of Spain, in 1974 he started at the University of Valladoliod to read chemistry but his communist sympathies drew attention to himself and he never completed his course. In the mid-1970s he moved to Barcelona, where he worked in advertising, coming into contact with members of the movie profession. In 1993 he entered films with Bigas Luna's 'Golden Balls', since when he has worked on several occasions with Pedro Almovodar and taken a Goya, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscar for his work on Steven Soderbergh's 'Che, Part One'.