SEB MONTAZ
Monday december 8 – 12:00 Euskalduna Bilbao
This year the International Alliance for Mountain Film decided to award the Grand Prize to Sébastien Montaz-Rosset, a director who has grown in the world of mountain images by interpreting the possibilities offered by new media. His first direction was the ‘Summits of my Life’ series with Kilian Jornet, with whom he then created many projects. Since then, he has recounted the adventures of the greatest athletes of many of the most recent extreme mountain sports, such as high-line, skydiving, wingsuit flying, without neglecting skiing and Himalayan mountaineering.
His cinema is made by instinct, born without a script, collecting images based on the emotions of the moment, to then identify the most captivating elements around which to grow the story. In this phase, the professional collaboration with his wife Davina Beyloos, producer and often co-director of the films, plays a fundamental role. A cinema that has won Montaz-Rosset Studio several awards, also in the festivals of the International Alliance for Mountain Film. Mendi Film awards: Best Mountaineering Film and Best Director for ‘De L’ombre à la Lumière’ (2022), and Special Jury Mention for ‘Out of The Blue’ (2022).
