'The Dawn Wall' and Tommy Caldwell will open the 11th Bilbao Mendi Film Festival
Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, which will be held from 7th to 16th December, announces its first big star of the Official Section: the movie The Dawn Wall and the presence of its main character, the climber Tommy Caldwell.
The audience will have the chance to enjoy the Opening Ceremony of this 11th edition of the Mendi Film. Together with Caldwell, who will sign autographs for the audience after the screening, the film will be presented by Peter Mortimer ‒director, Sender Films‒ and Philipp Manderla ‒producer, Red Bull Media House‒.
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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.
