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).
Emily Morgan is a BAFTA and BIFA winning producer working on a slate of projects through Quiddity Films, with collaborators across the world.
Quiddity’s most recent co-production is The Settlers (Felipe Gálvez), a Patagonian revisionist western that premiered in Cannes, Un Certain Regard 2023, won the FIPRESCI prize and was selected as Chile nomination for the foreign language Oscar. The film is participating in Horizontes Latinos at the San Sebastian Festival. The company is now in post-production on Swimming Home, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Booker-nominated novel, written and directed by Justin Anderson, starring Christopher Abbott, Mackenzie Davis, Ariane Labed and Nadine Labaki.
Emily’s first feature production was I Am Not a Witch, (Runagno Nyoni, 2017), that won the BAFTA Award for Best Debut Film and screened in Cannes, Sundance and TIFF. She went on to produce Make Up (Claire Oakley, 2019), via iFeatures and Supernova (Harry Macqueen, 2020), starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci. Over recent years she has also worked as a producer on Do Not Hesitate (Shariff Korver, 2021) for Lemming Film and as co-producer on Chevalier (Stephen Williams, 2022) for Element Pictures and Searchlight.
Previously, Emily was an in-house producer at the UK independent distributor Soda Pictures. She started her film career in distribution at Studio Canal and as a freelancer for companies such as Partizan, The Bureau, Hot Property Films and Steel Mill Pictures. Emily was featured as a Screen Star of Tomorrow 2015 and a Future Leader in 2018. She is a member of BAFTA, the European Film Academy and ACE Producers.