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 Argentine producer Hernán Musaluppi is no stranger to the Festival. He first came here in 1999 with Silvia Prieto by Martín Rejtman. Since then he’s returned on several occasions with films that have really left their mark including No sos vos, soy yo by Juan Taratuto; Whisky by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, Aire Libre by Anahi Berneri, which competed last year in the Official Section and La obra del siglo by Carlos M. Quntela, which is included this year in Horizontes Latinos.
Musaluppi has also seen how the Festival has grown a great deal in the last three years with the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. “As a producer you go to festivals with the aim of establishing links to finance films and now you can really see a lot more industry.”
As for judging films on the Official Jury, he points out that what he’s interested in are films that take a certain amount of risks but don’t shut the audience out. “Cinema needs to be sincere,” he says.