Mendi Short 5th edition
The registration for the 5th edition of Bilbao Mendi Film Festival's amateur short film contest is open till 11th November.
Juanjo San Sebastián WOP Foundation Award of the 11th edition of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
The mountaineer and writer Juanjo San Sebastián will be the guest of honour of this 11th edition of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival. He will receive the WOP ‒The Walk On Project Foundation Award‒ for his defence and transmission of the social values of mountaineering.
This will be the fifth edition in which the Award is given by the The Walk On Project Foundation, and Juanjo San Sebastián will join the exclusive group of great mountaineering personalities that have already been awarded: Josep Manuel Anglada, Sir Chris Bonington and Peter Habeler, along with the film Drawn by Jeremy Collins.
The Jury of Bilbao Mendi Film Festival 11th edition
We are proud to present the Jury of the Official Selection of Bilbao Mendi Film Festival's 11th edition:
Aldo Audisio, Emi Ueyama, Jim Herrington, Suzan Beraza and Juanjo San Sebastian.
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Tickets available for the Opening Ceremony 2018
Bilbao. Tickets with discount (13€ / 15€) for the Opening Ceremony of the 11th edition of Bilbao Mendi Film Festival (7 December) are available. The first film of the Official Section BMFF 2018 will be screened at that session.
Piotr Atanasow
Piotr Atanasow, whom everyone remembers as an affable man powerful in stature, left us on 24 July. He was a fundamental point of reference, for all the mountaineering and film contacts in Bulgaria.
'Learning to Fly' by Rainer Eder BMFF 2018 image
CVCEPHOTO announces the winners of its 4th edition in a beautiful act at the Teatro Principal of Donostia-San Sebastián. Among them, the work of the Austrian-Swiss photographer Rainer Eder Learning to Fly, Bilbao Mendi Film Festival 2018 Poster Award, and from now on the official image of the Mendifilm's 11th edition (7-16 December 2018).
Zorionak! Congrats!
IAMF Grand Prize 2018 was awarded to Kurt Diemberger
Trento (Italy), May 2nd 2018. An extremely important figure whose cinematographic career, in parallel to his mountaineering career, has always moved in innovative directions. The award was announced today during Trento Film Festival. The official awarding ceremony will take place during Mendi Film Festival 7-16 December 2018.
Ever since the founding of the International Alliance for Mountain Film (IAMF) in February 2000, its members have been interested in celebrating those who, through their talent, have changed the world of mountain film. IAMF members wish to express their gratitude to the filmmakers, directors and producers who have contributed throughout their careers – through loyalty and dedication, and with little regard for personal profit — to the evolution of mountain film into the prominent genre that it is today.
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