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Alastair Lee's three films join the Mendi Tour Online offer
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- Category: Noticias 2021
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:11
- Published: Thursday, 29 April 2021 19:22
Climbing Blind (Best Climbing Film Mendifilm 2019), Blood Moon (Official Selection Mendifilm 2018) and Blocheads (Official Selection Mendifilm 2016) are the three new films that expand the Mendi Tour Online offer through our channel on the Vimeo platform.
Pure climbing atmosphere and unique characters in three masterpieces by Alastair Lee, a filmmaker that has contributed to the Mendi Film Festival with 12 films since 2010. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the IAMF-International Alliance for Mountain Film in 2013 for his universal contribution to the genre. A benchmark for mountain cinema that joins the Mendi Tour Online.
Dariusz Zaluski "the new director of the 8000ers" IAMF Grand Prize 2021
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:11
- Published: Monday, 10 May 2021 09:47
Polish mountaineer and filmmaker Dariusz Zaluski will be awarded with the International Alliance for Mountain Film Grand Prize 2021. It was announced at the awards ceremony of the Trento Film Festival by Jabier Baraiazarra as president of the Alliance: "Zaluski is the director and mountaineer who has best known how to make the lesson of the great Kurt Diemberger his own, establishing as the new director of the 8000ers".
The IAMF Grand Prize, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, recognizes the trajectory of the award-winning filmmakers, as well as their contribution to both cinema and mountain culture. Zaluski becomes part of a select group of filmmakers who mark the history of mountain cinema in the 21st century.
In Dariusz Zaluski's filmography stands out the film Ostatnia Gora (The Last Mountain) -available on Mendi Tour Online -, about the winter polish expedition of 2018 to the K2. A film that manages to transfer the viewer to the harsh and tense conditions of an outstanding expedition, without censorship and with a sublime narrative. Darius Zaluski received the Best Director Award and the Best Mountaineering Film Award at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia 2019 for this film, which has been awarded at many other prestigious international festivals.
International Alliance For Mountain Film Grand Prize (2002-2021)
- 2021 DARIUSZ ZALUSKI
- 2020 WERNER HERZOG
- 2019 KEITH PARTRIDGE
- 2018 KURT DIEMBERGER *Watch at MendiTV
- 2017 GILLEZ CHAPPAZ
- 2016 SENDER FILMS
- 2015 ANNE, ERIK and VÉRONIQUE LAPIED
- 2014 ERIC CROSLAND and DAVE MOSSOP, SHERPAS CINEMA
- 2013 ALASTAIR LEE
- 2012 ERMANNO OLMI
- 2011 PAVOL BARABÁS
- 2010 HANS-JÜRGEN PANITZ
- 2009 LOTHAR BRANDLER
- 2008 SEBASTIÁN ÁLVARO
- 2007 MICHAEL BROWN
- 2006 DIRECTORATE GENERAL FOR TELEVISION SWITZERLAND
- 2005 JEAN-PIERRE BAILLY
- 2004 FULVIO MARIANI
- 2003 LEO DICKINSON
- 2002 GERHARD BAUR
The IAMF is the leading reference in the mountain film industry, and its goal is to promote, enhance and conserve this fascinating cinematography genre. The association is made up of 28 members, 27 mountain festivals and the Museo Nazionale della Montagna in Turin, and in total 20 nations from 5 Continents are represented.
"The Edge of Guillotine" is the 2021 image of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:11
- Published: Saturday, 15 May 2021 02:03
The setting in the image places us in the Elbe Valley, in the Bohemian Switzerland region of the Czech Republic. A paradise of rocks and sandstone mountains, on one of whose sharp edges the American climber Jenny Fischer appears climbing the "Guilotina VIIb" route.
The Basque Mountaineering Federation and Mendi Film have renewed their collaboration agreement
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:10
- Published: Thursday, 17 June 2021 10:11
The Basque Mountaineering Federation EMF-FVM currently has a record number of almost 40,000 associate members. Both the Asociación Mendi Film Elkartea and the Federation are interested in the promotion of mountaineering among their members and the general public.
Zigor Egia, President of the EMF-FVM, and Eduardo Martínez, President of Mendi Film, signed the collaboration agreement for 2021. They were joined by Ricardo Hernani, member of the new board at EMF-FVM, and Jabier Baraiazarra, director of Mendi Film.
A History of Passion 2000-2020: the history of the International Alliance for Mountain Film
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- Last Updated: Friday, 05 February 2021 12:18
- Published: Saturday, 06 February 2021 08:00
The International Alliance for Mountain Film is over twenty years old. Many years have passed since it was founded in the Hall of Emblems at the Mountain Museum in Turin, Italy. Unfortunately the pandemic canceled the Turin assembly scheduled for May 4, 2020, where we planned to celebrate our twenty years of activity, but it left us the possibility of publishing a book to go back over this first period.
The International Alliance for Mountain Film-International Alliance for Mountain Film publishes a book that reviews the history of the 20 years from its founding in the Hall of Emblems of the Museum of the Mountain in Turin, Italy, to the past year 2020. Mendi Film became part of the Alliance in 2011, and celebrates 10 years of experience with the most prestigious festivals in the world, and its Director Jabier Barayazarra is the President of the Alliance since 2018.
Thank you for making it possible!
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- Category: Noticias 2020
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 December 2020 16:02
- Published: Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:59
Happy New Mendi 2021!
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- Last Updated: Monday, 21 December 2020 19:54
- Published: Thursday, 31 December 2020 12:00
The Rosary of the Everest, the icon of the Basque-Polish brotherhood of Himalayism
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- Last Updated: Saturday, 19 December 2020 21:32
- Published: Saturday, 19 December 2020 21:28
The rosary blessed by Pope John Paul II that Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy deposited on the summit of Everest in the first ever winter climb of 1980, and that Martin Zabaleta collected as a testimony of the first Basque summit to Everest on 14th May 1980, is today the icon of the Basque-Polish brotherhood in Himalayism. An icon owned by EMMOA (Basque Mountaineering Museum Foundation) and which was shown at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival to the coordinator of the Polish Institute of Culture in Madrid, Iwona Zielińska-Sąsiada.
Awards ceremony in Bilbao of the 13th edition
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- Last Updated: Monday, 14 December 2020 16:58
- Published: Monday, 14 December 2020 16:55
Successful edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia festival with the support of cinema and mountain lovers
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- Last Updated: Monday, 14 December 2020 16:36
- Published: Monday, 14 December 2020 11:12
Eduardo Martínez and Jabier Baraiazarra, President and Director of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao Bizkaia at the closing ceremony of the 13th edition
Bilbao, 14th December 2020. The BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia International Mountain Film Festival has successfully celebrated its 13th edition. A total of 5,578 people have attended the screenings at Euskalduna, at Sala BBK and at the Golem cinemas in Bilbao.
The film of the Hillary's last grand expedition wins the Grand Prize of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival
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- Category: Noticias 2020
- Last Updated: Sunday, 13 December 2020 11:12
- Published: Saturday, 12 December 2020 10:01
The film "Hillary - Ocean to Sky" is the Grad Prize of the 13th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival. The film directed by Michael Dillon is about Sir Edmund Hillary's last grand expedition Ocean to Sky, where he embarks on a journey from the ocean, ascending the sacred waters of the Ganges in motorboats, to reach the virgin peak of Akash Parbat in the Himalaya.
Mendi Film meeting point of cinema and the mountain culture in Bilbao and virtually all over the world
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- Last Updated: Monday, 07 December 2020 19:53
- Published: Monday, 07 December 2020 13:28
The BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival started with a massive support of spectators. During the first three days of the festival, the sessions of the Euskalduna Palace and the Sala BBK were sold out, and the Golem Cinemas had a constant and numerous assistance too. 2000 spectators attended the face-to-face sessions, overcoming all the measures of the pandemic.
The Baltistan Fundazioa Foundation receives the recognition of 20 years of cooperative work with the WOP 2020 Award
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- Category: Noticias 2020
- Last Updated: Sunday, 06 December 2020 15:59
- Published: Sunday, 06 December 2020 15:53
The energy of the Opening Ceremony sets the route to BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia
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- Last Updated: Sunday, 06 December 2020 15:49
- Published: Sunday, 06 December 2020 15:44
CVCEPHOTO: mountain activity photographic exhibition in the city
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- Last Updated: Tuesday, 01 December 2020 23:54
- Published: Tuesday, 01 December 2020 19:22
Ticket sales and Mendi Film Online for the 13th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia activated
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- Last Updated: Monday, 23 November 2020 12:13
- Published: Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:58
Gorka Martínez (BBK), Alberto Iñurrategi (alpinista), Lorea Bilbao (BFA-DFB), Eduardo Martínez (President Mendi Film), Iñaki López de Aguileta (Bilbao), Jabier Baraiazarra (Director Mendi Film), Mikel Renteria (WOP) and Andoni Iturbe (EJ-GV)
Bilbao, November 23, 2020. The 13th edition of BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia will be held from December 4 to 13. It will be a special edition, conditioned by the pandemic. This year the festival can be enjoyed in two ways: with screenings in Bilbao and the online offer for those who cannot attend Bilbao.
