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).
Carlos Rodríguez Ríos (La Seu d’Urgell, Spain. 1968) graduated in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has a post-graduate degree in Cultural Administration and Politics. In 1994 he was co-founder of the 100.000 Retinas film broadcasting company, an organisation dedicated to promoting cinema as culture. He has been a promotor and coordinator of the Cineambigú cycle, a weekly cinematic space offering the best international films without distribution in our country. For more than 10 years he co-directed the Barcelona Asian Film Festival – BAFF, and since 2010 is director of the film distribution company Noucinemart and of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona.