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).
Sometimes a project seems to be cursed by bad luck. Back in 2005 director Pablo Berger
presented his producers with a script for a silent film in black and white with music. Doubts
about whether the concept was viable and the problems caused by a production like this went on long enough for another filmmaker, Michael Hazanavicius, to get in first and have a world-wide hit with The Artist.
Berger acknowledged that this annoyed him a bit, “insofar as it made us lose the effect of
surprise, which I think is vital”. But as every cloud has a silver lining, the fact is that in the
wake of The Artist, they had created a sense of expectation that meant they had already sold the film to a lot of countries. He also pointed out that whereas the Artist was a nostalgic vision of American silent films, Blancanieves was a bit more daring and was inspired by 1920s European cinema.