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).
Oliver Stone was quite emphatic about how disappointed he was with Barack Obama: “He has set up a surveillance system that goes way beyond the Stasi’s in East Germany,” he claimed yesterday during the presentation of his film Snowden about the young CIA analyst who leaked documents to reveal the massive NSA global surveillance programme and who is still living in exile in Russia.
Stone passionately defended his vision of Snowden. “I didn’t want to make him a hero. We just told the story with the information he provided and the research we did.”
The director revealed that the script had to be encrypted and meetings were on a person-to-person basis to prevent leaks. For security reasons most of the film was shot outside the USA in Munich.
He was also quite categorical about not sacrificing liberties to protect people in the name
of the war on terror. “This is the death knell to true liberty. I don’t want that kind of protection.”