Jabi Baraiazarra

Jabi Baraiazarra is the founder and director of the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, which he created together with Eduardo Martinez in 2008. Currently, he is also the president of the International Alliance For Mountain Film, an association composed of 26 Festivals of Mountain Film and a Mountain Museum, which represent 20 countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America and Oceania. He is a mountaineer, cameraman and director, and has worked on short films and feature-length documentaries. His documentaries with brothers Iker and Eneko Pou are some of his most well-known work.