RENAN OZTURK
Sunday December 8 – 19:45 Euskalduna - Auditorio
The International Alliance for Mountain Film-IAMF 2024 Grand Prize has been awarded to Renan Ozturk. The IAMF president Jabier Baraiazarra was in Telluride during the Mountainfilm Festival awards ceremony on May and presented the award to Renan.
Renan Ozturk is a documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber, and a photojournalist. Some of his films have gained global attention:
• Meru, for which he was both cinematographer and subject and which took home the 2015 Audience Choice Award at Sundance Film Festival.
• Sherpa, where he was a cinematographer and co-director.
• The Last Honey Hunter, about the harvest of wild and toxic honey in the Hongu river valley of Nepal, is a requiem for a fading way of life and a tribute to the resilient human spirit.
• The Sanctity of Space, a film conceived as a tribute to the legendary explorer, mountaineer and photographer Bradford Washburn, retracing his steps and revisiting his iconic images.
At Mendi Film, we celebrate the award by programming the brilliant film The Ghosts Above, which Ozturk co-directs with Taylor Rees and Jay Macmillan.
