Javier was born in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain) in 1961. He studied Basque Philology and later specialized in audiovisual communication. He has been working in the Basque public TV (Euskal Telebista-ETB) since 1989. As a cameraman, editor and director he has produced shorts and documentaries about climbing and alpinism in all continents, with the documentary TV series “7 walls, 7 continents”- filmed with the Pou brothers- as a standout. He has filmed some awarded documentaries, among which stand out the ones produced in Totem Pole (Tasmania) and Eternal Flame (Trango Tower), both in 2005, Fitz Roy (Patagonia) in 2006, and Zerua Peak (Antarctica) in 2008. He founded and is the director of Mendi Film Festival, an international mountain film event born in 2008, held in Bilbao since 2012, and member of the International Alliance for Mountain Film since 2011. Currently he is also the president of the International Alliance For Mountain Film, an association composed of 23 Festivals of Mountain Film and a Mountain Museum, which represent 18 countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America and Oceania.