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).
A Mexican producer, who was born in Mexico City. She collaborated on a regular basis with the group of directors who revitalised Mexican cinema in the sixties. She worked with Gregory Nava in 1981 on El Norte, and shortly afterwards she became a producer for some of the young directors who in the last ten years have put Mexico on the world map as far as cinema is concerned. These included Cabeza de Vaca by Nicolás Echeverría or Cronos, Guillermo del Toro's debut film who she has continued to work with on El espinazo del diablo (The Devil's Backbone). Her latest films have been La fiebre del loco, by Andrés Wood and Silencio roto, by Montxo Armendáriz. As well as working as a producer, Bertha Navarro is a promoter and co-ordinator at the Script Laboratories for Latin American scriptwriters in collaboration with the Sundance Film Institute and the Carmen Toscano Foundation. At the moment she is preparing the full-length film Asesino en serio, by Antonio Urrutia.