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).
Eduardo Crespo (Crespo, Argentina) studied cinema and audiovisual preservation in Buenos Aires. In 2012 he directed his first feature film, Tan cerca como pueda / As Close as Possible, which competed at the Mar del Plata Festival. This was followed in 2016 by the documentary Crespo (La continuidad de la memoria) / Crespo (The Persistence of Memory), a contender in the Argentine competition of the BAFICI. In 2020, his third film, Nosotras nunca moriremos / We Will Never Die, was a Golden Shell candidate at the San Sebastian Festival. The film landed the New Vision Award at the Santa Barbara Festival, the Silver Condor for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing Award at the Mar del Plata Festival. His most recent film, Las delicias / The Delights (2021) screened in the international competition at the IDFA and garnered several awards at different festivals.
He has worked as a director of photography on films including Breve historia del planeta verde (Santiago Loza, 2019), selected in 2017 for San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum, Hoy no tuve miedo (Iván Fund, 2011), De nuevo otra vez (Romina Paula, 2019), Horizontes Award in San Sebastian, and Amigas en un camino de campo / Friends on a Country Road (Santiago Loza, 2022), which participated in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera.
He is currently working on his latest movie, La gruta del viento, selected for Ikusmira Berriak in 2021 and winner that same year in San Sebastian of the Irusoin Post-Production Award. He has been the artistic director of the Entre Ríos International Film Festival since 2022.