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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Baltistan Fundazioa foundation has been awarded with the WOP-The Walk On Project Award at the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival in recognition of its trajectory and social and humanitarian work of international cooperation. Pedro Ibarra (President of the foundation) and Alberto Iñurrategi (mountaineer and founder of the foundation) have represented thousands of solidarity actions at the ceremony.
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The 13th edition of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia mountain film festival brings the spirit of the mountains to unique corners of the city. Both in the Ensanche building and in the Abando, Moyua, Indautxu and SanMamés stations of Metro Bilbao, the awarded images of the 6th edition of the CVCEPHOTO mountain activities photography contest are exhibited.
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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.
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- The Official Selection of the BBK Mendi Film Bilbao-Bizkaia festival will include 54 films, which will be available at theatres and online from 4th to 13th December
- Mendi Tour Getaria 2020
- The foundation Baltistan Fundazioa will receive the WOP Award 2020
- Mendi Tour On Line: Cholitas on demand
- The history of mountaineering and climbing films becomes a book
- Werner Herzog IAMF Grand Prize 2020
- Film submission period countdown: open until 15th of September
- Urmuga: the musical mountain traverse of the Basque Country
- Postponed Mendi Tour sessions
- “Into the Light”: The image of Mendi Film 2020 shows the light
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