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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).
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The letters that Frances Wilkinson sent from China to her family during the 1940s form the narrative thread for the documentary Nao Yik. While we listen to a selection of her texts narrated by her granddaughter Rebecca Wilkinson, on screen we are shown a series of real images from contemporary China,where the director, David Aguilar and the two co-scriptwriters Rebecca and Pello Gutierrez, spent a month filming “ what the street offered us”. Rebecca describes her grandmother as a “really bright” woman who, when she wrote the letters, (some of which are twelve pages long,) was fully aware that they had a great deal of documentary value.“She numbered them herself and told her family who they should pass them on to after reading them.” When the idea for the film was taking shape, the filmmakers interviewed Frances, who sadly died before she could see the result.
The authors prefer to call their film non-fiction rather than a documentary as they consider this to be freer and more open, and according to the director, David Aguilar, the documentary is the most subjective way of making a film.
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