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).
Everything’s all prepared for the opening gala at the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival which will be held this evening at 20.30 in the Kursaal. The event will be directed by the actress, director and scriptwriter Mireia Gabilondo and hosted by the comedians Eva Hache and Gorka Otxoa with a script by the writer and cartoonist Bob Pop, while the group Audience will be providing the background music. Gorka Otxoa didn’t want to spoil things by giving anything away but said that the gala achieved a balance between entertaining and serious moments, while Eva Hache confirmed that this was the case and stressed how difficult it was to turn a gala into a TV programme.
The thread running through the gala will be the extraordinary capacity of cinema to provide plural, unusual and multifaceted perspectives and the event will be broadcast live on ETB1, on the eitb.eus platform, on the Festival web site, on Channel 2 on TVE and on the RTVE Play platform.