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).
Luis Ángel Ramírez (Bilbao, Spain. 1963) selected by the Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts to participate in Producers on the Move at the Cannes Festival (2007). He is a member of the European producers networks ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen) and EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs). He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain and of the European Film Academy.
Worthy of note among his productions are the documentary features Unidad 25 (Unit 25, 2008) and El ojo del tiburón (The Eye of the Shark, 2012), both directed by Alejo Hoijman, and Saura(s) (2017), directed by Félix Viscarret and presented in Zabaltegi - Tabakalera at San Sebastian.
In the field of fiction, among others he has produced the features Paraíso (Paradise), by Héctor Gálvez, presented in the Orizzonti section at Venice (2009); La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye), by Diego Lerman, presented in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes and in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian (2010); and Mujer conejo (Rabbit Woman), by Verónica Chen, premiered in Zabaltegi (2013).
In 2016 he produced La 4ª compañía (The 4th Company), directed by Amir Galván and Mitzi Vanessa Arreola, winner of ten Ariel Awards, and La carga (2016), directed by Alan Jonsson.
In 2019 he will complete the production of Maider Oleaga’s third feature film, Kuartk Valley, as well as producing the documentary features Wan Xia, directed by Silvia Rey, Las edades de Almudena, directed by Azucena Rodríguez, and the full-length feature La desconocida, directed by Pablo Maqueda.