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).
Chris Fujiwara is a film critic, journalist and editor. He is the author of Jerry Lewis (University of Illinois Press), The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger (Faber & Faber), and Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall (Johns Hopkins University Press). He is also the general editor of the anthology Defining Moments in Movies (also known as Little Black Book: Movies; Cassell) and was the editor of Undercurrent, the film-criticism magazine of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).
Fujiwara has written on film for numerous periodicals and anthologies and has lectured on film aesthetics and film history at Tokyo University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and elsewhere.
Since 2012 he has been Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival.