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).
Rodolphe Sanze (Rueil-Malmaison, France. 1984) graduated from École Supérieure de Gestion, Paris, with an MBA in Audiovisual Production Management. In 2007, he started his career at Mediapro Group in Spain. He launched and handled the Film Sales Department, where he managed worldwide acquisition and distribution for films from directors such as Woody Allen, Fernando León de Aranoa, Isabel Coixet, Alberto Rodríguez, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and Carlos Saura. In 2013, he joined K5 International in Germany. He worked on high profile features and documentaries by directors such as Zachary Heinzerling, Bille August, Mira Nair, or Tom McCarthy.
In 2015 he cofounded The Project, a Paris-based production company specialized in European coproductions, with Laurent Fumeron and Daniel Goroshko. In 2016, The Project produced Paul Urkijo’s debut feature: Errementari (Errementari: the Blacksmith and the Devil, 2017), screened in Zinemira at San Sebastian and coproduced with Álex de la Iglesia. Selected in prestigious festivals, it was internationally released as a Netflix Original Production.
In 2017, The Project produced its second feature, The Sonata (2018), by Andrew Desmond, starring Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner and Rutger Hauer and screened at Fantasporto, BIFFF and Frightfest.
The Project’s next film in production is Kike Maíllo’s new feature and first official adaptation of the novel Cosmétique de l’Ennemi (2001), written by Amélie Nothomb, in coproduction with Sábado Películas.