Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
Born in Castellón in 1963, is the frontman on the biggest hits in Spain's film industry: Alejandro Amenábar's Los otros (The Others, 2001) and Mar adentro (The Sea Inside, 2004; Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2005), Javier Fesser's La Gran Aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón (Mortadelo and Filemon, the Big Adventure, 2003), Julio Medem's Lucía y el sexo (Sex and Lucia, 2001) and José Luis Cuerda's La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue, 1999), among others.
Having worked as the Director General of Contents at Sogecable, he founded MOD Producciones in 2007, where the first production was Alejandro Amenábar's Ágora (2009), presented at the Cannes Festival and the biggest box office hit of the year in Spain.
Since then, he has produced titles such as Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Biutiful (2010)(Best Actor Award at Cannes for Javier Bardem and Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film) and the series Crematorio for Canal+, which won the Ondas Award 2011 as Best Series of the Year. More recently, he produced Manuel Martín Cuenca's Caníbal (Cannibal, 2013) and Oskar Santos' Zipi y Zape y el Club de la Canica (Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang, 2013), both presented at last year's San Sebastian Festival.
Fernando Bovaira is currently busy working on the post-production of Regresión (Regression) Amenábar's awaited return to genre cinema, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson.