Jabier Baraiazarra
Director of BMFF
Jabi Baraiazarra is founder and director of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, which he created together with Eduardo Martinez in 2008. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Basque Studies and MA in Communication Studies, but above all, he is a mountaineer. As a cameraman and director, he has worked on short films and documentaries, although his documentaries with Iker and Eneko Pou brothers are the ones that stand out. With them, he performed a project called “7 Walls, 7 Continents”, a piece of work that offered the viewers the opportunity to travel with the Basque mountain climbers to emblematic places of the "7" continents. Founding and organizing the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival was, with no doubt, the best way of spreading his passion for mountains among the audience.
