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).
Elisa McCausland (Madrid) is a journalist, critic and researcher. Her career is marked by her interest in the intersections of expressions of popular culture, such as the comic and cinema with feminism.
Today she collaborates regularly with the programmes Efecto Doppler, Territorio 9 and Tres en la carretera, on Radio 3, and with publications including Dirigido Por, El País, El Salto and SoFilm.
A speaker on comics, feminism and popular culture at various institutions and participant in numerous anthology books, among them Muriel Box (2018), published by the San Sebastian Festival, and the issues dedicated to dystopias and the French polar of Nosferatu, the magazine published by Donostia Kultura.
Curator of the exhibitions Presentes: Autoras de tebeo de ayer y hoy (2016-17) and Coordenadas Gráficas: Cuarenta historietas de autoras de España, Argentina, Chile y Costa Rica (2021-2025), organised by AECID (the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation).
Author of Wonder Woman: El feminismo como superpoder (2017) —Ignotus Award and Critics’ Award 2018 for Best Essay— and, with the critic Diego Salgado, of Supernovas: Una historia de la ciencia ficción audiovisual (2019), Sueños y Fábulas: Historia de Vertigo (2022) and Beso negro: Brujería, cine y cultura pop (2023).
Promotor of the Collective of Female Comic Authors and member of the ECC-UAH Chair of Comic Research and Culture.