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).
Lola Millás founded and has been directing the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Film Archive since 1975. Prior to creation of the Film Archive, she worked for the Ministry’s Directorate-General for Cultural and Scientific Relations as a coordinator between International Cultural Organisations, and was head of the division responsible for novels and essays with the Índice Cultural publication.
From 1992 until 1995, she created and coordinated the Audiovisual Area of Casa de América in Madrid. She has moreover co-founded a number of international film festivals, including the Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival, at which she created an area dedicated to Latin American films, the Lleida Latin-American Film Festival and the African Cinema Festival of Tarifa.
She has been a member of juries at different festivals, including: the Huelva Latin-American Film Festival, Lleida Festival, Bahia Film Festival, and the Lisbon International Digital Film Festival.
She has given conferences at the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, La Casa Encendida, Casa de América, Majadahonda Latin American Film Festival, and at the Complutense, Camilo José Cela (Madrid), San Juan de Puerto Rico, San Carlos (Guatemala) and Mexican Autónoma universities.
Lola Millás wrote the book of short stories Edipo Tango, first published by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (1999) and subsequently in Spain by Celeste (2000). She has also written the books Con Agustín González hemos topado (2001) and Agustín González: entre la conversación y la memoria, published by Ocho y Medio and presented in 2005 at the Malaga Film Festival. She similarly co-wrote the book De Madrid al Cine: Una pantalla capital (2003).
She moreover coordinated publishing of the books Cine y libros en España, Ciclos y temas and Literatura Española: Una historia de cine, and is currently working on La historia de España a través del cine.