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).
The 63rd edition of the San Sebastian Festival will for the first time present the new Cooperación Española Award to the producer of the Latin American film making the best contribution to human development, the eradication of poverty and the full exercise of human rights.
All of the Ibero-American films selected for the Official Selection, New Directors and Horizontes Latinos sections can compete for the Award, to be decided by a specific 3-member jury.
This is the agreement reached between the San Sebastian Festival and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) with the aim of strengthening the commitment of both parties to working jointly with the Ibero-American audiovisual industry in order to promote new talents, foster the production of film projects and strengthen the commercialisation and internationalisation of the films.
Furthermore, the Agency will also organise a round table in the framework of the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, to take place as part of the 63rd edition of the Festival, at the San Telmo Museum, on September 21, 22 and 23.
Cooperación Española therefore consolidates its ties with one of the leading international cinematic events, the San Sebastian Film Festival. By way of an example is the Horizontes Latinos section, with which it has been collaborating since it began, and which was created to provide space for the most important Ibero-American production of the year in addition to films still not released in Spain.