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 Mexico City on 11th July 1953, she started acting at a very young age with the maestros Virgilio Mariel, José Luis Ibáñez, Dimitrio Sarras, Héctor Mendoza and Adriana Roel, later heading for London to take a theatre workshop.
She has made 51 films to date, the most outstanding of which are La casa del sur (The House in the South, 1974) by Sergio Olhovich, Los motivos de Luz, by Felipe Cazals (1985, Silver Shell at San Sebastian), La reina de la noche (The Queen of the Night, 1993), El evangelio de las maravillas (Divine, 1998), El coronel no tiene quien le escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1998) and Así es la vida (Such Is Life, 1999), all by Arturo Ripstein, Before Night Falls by Julian Schnabel (1999), El sueño del Caimán by Beto Gómez (2000), La perdición de los hombres (The Ruination of Men, 2000, Golden Shell at San Sebastian) and La virgen de la lujuria (The Virgin of Lust, 2001), both of which are also directed by Arturo Ripstein, Exxxorcismos (Exxxorcisms, 2001), by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, Frida, by Julie Taymor (2001), El Edén, by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, and Between, by David Ocaña (2004).
She has participated in 33 plays, and particularly Misterio bufo, Y la maestra bebe un poco, Salomé, Ángeles caídos, Las criadas, Los monólogos de la vagina and Hombres.
For television, she has worked in 22 soaps, the most outstanding of which are El maleficio, El extraño retorno de Diana Salazar, En carne propia, El vuelo del águila, La antorcha encendida, Pueblo chico, infierno grande, María Isabel, Mariana de la noche and La madrastra. She participated in several episodes of Mujer, casos de la vida real, as stage director and was the director of Operación Triunfo.
Patricia Reyes Spíndola was a member of the Official Jury at San Sebastian Festival in 1998.