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 British festival programmer. After working for several years as a teacher and writing on subjects to do with culture, she began to work in independent cinema at the end of the eighties. She was one of the driving forces behind one of the Regional Arts Boards in Great Britain. She ran various seminars on screenings and distribution strategies. In 1991 she took charge of the Manchester Cornerhouse cinema, a complex with three cinemas and a contemporary art gallery where she organised various seasons of films. It was in this context that the idea came up of holding specialised festivals such as "Viva!", the first British festival devoted to Spanish cinema and the Festival of Independent American Cinema. In 1997 she started to work as a programmer at the London Film Festival, where she is the deputy director. She has directed documentaries and fictional short films and writes regularly in various film magazines.