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).
Photographer Brigitte Lacombe (Alès, France) is known for her influential and revelatory portraiture. For four decades she has created iconic and intimate photographs of many of the world’s most celebrated artists, actors, politicians and intellectuals. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published by the world’s best magazines.
Lacombe’s monographs include: Lacombe Anima/Persona (2008) Lacombe Cinema/ Theater (2001). Forward, 20 Years Of Times Talks (2019) Breakthrough Prize, Volumes 1&2, (2016-2019) Hey’ya Arab Women In Sport, (2012), and Prada Luna Rossa (2001).
She has worked behind-the-scenes on many film-sets starting with Alan Pakula’s All the President’s Men and Fellini’s Casanova both in 1975, and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1976. Since then, she has documented the films of Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Jonze, Bennett Miller, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Haneke, Mike Nichols, among many other directors.
She is the subject of the documentary film Brigitte (Lynne Ramsay, 2029) premiered at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and can be viewed on-line.
Lacombe’s many advertising campaigns include work for Dior, Chanel, Issey Miyake, Prada, Armani, Hermes, and Lancôme.
Lacombe was a founding photographer at the magazine Condé Nast Traveler. She won the Eisenstaedt Award for Travel Photography (2000). Other awards include the Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award for Photography (2010), and the Lucie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Travel & Portraiture (2012).
She is currently at work on a visual memoir