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).
Silvia Cruz (São Paulo, Brazil.1982) graduated in Business Management at ESPM in 2004 and since then she works in film distribution and production. Silvia began her career at Pandora Filmes, and worked at Europa Filmes and Coração da Selva, acting in the executive production area and acquisitions. In 2010, she founded the distribution company Vitrine Filmes, responsible for the release of more than 150 titles in Brazilian cinemas (mostly independent national films), among them O som ao redor (2012), Aquarius (2016)and Bacurao (2019), by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Temporada (2018)by André Novais, Divino Amor (2019) by Gabriel Mascaro, A vida invísivel de Eurídice Gusmão (2019) by Karim Ainouz, A febre (2019)by Maia Da-Rin, Frances Ha (2012), by Noah Baumbach, Las acacias (Horizontes Latinos, 2011) and Invisible (2017) by Pablo Giorgelli, Zama (2017) by Lucrecia Martel, and others. In 2014, she became associate with São Paulo producer Julia Alves and Michael Wahrmann, in the creation of the production company Sancho & Punta in parallel to her activity in Vitrine Filmes.