Lara Izagirre Garizurieta (born in Amorebieta, Spain, 1985) graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country. She pursued her film studies at the NYFA in New York, where she worked for two years in different production companies assuming production duties. At her next destination, Barcelona, she completed a Master in script writing at the Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia (ESCAC). There she started writing the script of An Autumn without Berlin, which received a grant from the Basque Government for its development.