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).
Carlos Losilla (Barcelona, 1960) is an essayist, film and literary critic and lecturer on Film Theories at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, and holds a PhD in Documentaries from the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona. He also taught at the Literary Criticism Workshop organised by the Associació Catalana de Critics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània in Barcelona.
From 1998 until 2006, he coordinated the film books for Ediciones Paidós and directed the Sesión Continua collection. He is the author of El cine de terror. Una introducción (1993), Taxi Driver / Johnny Guitar (1996), the short story, “En ausencia de Isabel” (from the collective book Homenaje a Casanova, 1998), La invención de Hollywood o cómo olvidarse de una vez por todas del cine clásico (2003) and the essays-novel, En busca de Ulrich Seidl (2003) and El sitio de Viena (to be published shortly), in addition to the coordinator of Paul Schrader, el tormento y el éxtasis (1995), La mirada oblicua, El cine de Robert Aldrich (1996), Richard Fleischer, entre el cielo y el infierno (1997) and Karel Reisz o el exilio permanente (1998), the first three with José Antonio Hurtado.
Chairman of the Asociació Catalana de Critics i Escriptors Cinematogràfics from 1999 until 2001, member of the Spanish Association of Film Historians (having actively participated in several of its congresses on both the organising and scientific committees), and of the Associació Col·legial d’Escriptors de Catalunya, assiduous collaborator in the magazines Dirigido, Nosferatu and Archivos de la Filmoteca, in addition to having written different articles for many other literary and film publications (El Observador, El Híbrido, Transversal, Lateral, Viridiana, Bandaparte...), giving courses and conferences at different institutions and universities, sitting on juries or advisory or selection committees at a good number of national festivals (San Sebastian, Sitges, Cinema Jove in Valencia, Alcalá de Henares, Gijón...) and curator of an exhibition on science fiction movies.
He is currently a film critic of recent releases for the newspaper Avui and collaborates on the “Culturas” supplement of the La Vanguardia newspaper.