Aljaz Babnik is a Filmmaker and Photographer from Slovenia. He is working with different brands such as Vans, Adidas, Nike, Roxy, Quiksilver, MakeUpForerver,, Surfers Collective.
Aljaz’s work varies from working with professional athletes, models, designers and at the same time creating fine content for Surf industry.

Beside commercial work he is also involved in the humanitarian educational projects as Rugby Libre, which gives emphasis to social education and expression of personal freedom. Furthermore, he presented two charity exhibitions on the subject of Ocean preservation. His work was recognized and exhibited in Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, Usa, Germany, France, Hawaii, etc.

He directed different short films , which was presented at many Film Festivals around the world and one of them won the Best Short Film (Berlin Surf Film Festival), Emerging Filmmaker (San Diego Surf Film Festival) and Judge’s Choice award (UAE Ocean Film Festival Dubai). Moreover, he produced a surf exploration documentary called From Lost To The Desert, which was filmed in one of the most remote places in the world, the desert of Morocco and Western Sahara.

What drives him is the interaction between human intelligence and nature, he thinks that we live in a disconnected society.

 

There is space and time to create a better world for everyone.