Urko de los Ríos

Professional Experience

Began his education in audiovisual matters with a degree in audiovisual production at the Andoain ESCIVI (School of Film and Video) and continued studying two years of Fine Arts at the Basque Public University, to end up landing at KINEMA, a film school based in Bilbao, where he specialized in film script. Later on, he completed his training with courses such as Josué Monchuán's Videoludic Storytelling organized by the Association of Basque Scriptwriters, of which he is a member, and was chosen to participate in Gidoi Faktoria, the television script master's degree organized by the Basque regional television ( ETB).

He has worked on several short films as a screenwriter ( The Night Stalker, by Pablo Isidro; Happy Birthday, by Roberto San Sebastián; or The End of All Things, by Norma Vila) screened at many festivals and winners of various awards. He has also translated scripts into English, written for corporate videos, and co-written the video game Bennevine for Naduku Games. He has also been a jury member at several film festivals such as FANT and Animakon in Bilbao, the Hendaye Short Film Festival, or Santurtzine.

He currently works as a teacher specialized in script and continues to write scripts; one of them a television series whose rights have been sold to the Bainet Group.