Izibene Oñederra Aramendi

Animated film director with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country. She holds an honorary doctorate from the same university and is currently an assistant professor in the painting department of the UPV-EHU. Her first animation is Hezulbeltzak, una fosa común (2007), multi-awarded in international festivals and with a very extensive tour of several years in different in-ternational festivals, theaters, film libraries and museums worldwide. His education in the world of animation is extended in workshops coordinated by Isabel Hergura at the Arteleku art center in Donostia. Workshops led by Phil Mulloy and Vera Neubauer, Raymond Krumme and Abi Feijó and Regina Pessoa among other renowned animators. During Vuk Jevremovic's workshop the collective short film Berbaoc (2008) was made. During his stay at Arteleku he made his second animated short film Hotzanak. For his own safety (2013), subsidized by the Basque Government and distributed by the Kimuak platform, like all the short films made to date. In Arteleku she curated annual conferences that aimed to make visible and reflect on the other cinema, called Cine Raro at the beginning and later Cine Mapa.
Also at that time he collaborated daily with the Basque language newspaper Berria. He also partici-pates in animation workshops at the Larrotxene culture center, and together with Isabel Herguera also in Rome and India, occasionally. Later she participates in a feature film project produced by Donostia San Sebastian European Capital and together with Isabel Herguera she makes the animation Kutxa Beltza (2016) for that project. She also participates as a director among a collective of directors, in two animation short films that are going to be coordinated from the University of the Basque Country, Beti Bezperako Koplak (2016) and Areka (2017), short films that are going to have a long trajectory in in-ternational festivals. His latest animation is Lursaguak (2019) which premiered at the Donostia-San Sebastian Festival in the Zabaltegi section.