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 1980, Sophie Mirouze completed a course in audiovisual studies in Toulouse before studying film in Paris. After working in production (Fidélité), cinema management (Pathé), international sales (Films Distribution) and at various film institutions (Centre Pompidou, Association Française des Cinémas d'Art et Essai), she finally joined the La Rochelle International Film Festival in 2003 where she has held the position of artistic coordinator since 2009.
Every year since 1973, the La Rochelle International Film Festival presents some 300 films from around the world to over 80,000 viewers. Alongside Prune Engler and Sylvie Pras, Sophie Mirouze is responsible for the highly eclectic programme, with retrospectives, tributes, rediscoveries of forgotten films, as well as short and feature-length fictions, documentaries and animations. The festival helps bring together past and present films, the directors who have marked the history of cinema and the young filmmakers driving European and international film today.
Sophie Mirouze was a member of the Kinoshock Film Festival in Anapa, Russia in 2004 and the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival in 2011.