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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).
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EQZE
Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola
EQZE: Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola is an international centre for thinking, research, experimental practice and pedagogical innovation based around the past, present and future of cinema.
Created and financed by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) was born in 2017 with an exciting and regenerative spirit: its ultimate purpose was not to provide technical qualifications along the lines of the traditional and standardised models, but to stimulate the appearance of filmmakers taking a comprehensive approach to the cinema, capable of generating new filmmaking realities (labour-related, conceptual, creative, professional).
The San Sebastian Festival was a member of the work team that came up with the actual concept of the school together with the Filmoteca Vasca and the Tabakalera cultural project. The participation of a film festival in the creation of a school represented, from the outset, a double thrust.
On the one hand, the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola would permit a slower speed, more academic, thanks to which the Festival would become a study case from which it would start to rethink itself in the context of festival studies.
On the other hand, participation in the school aimed to continue looking closely at projects which the Festival had previously set in motion and which reflected the mission of supporting and accompanying filmmakers on their road to entering the professional world, with sections such as Nest, the Ikusmira Berriak project development programme and New Directors, one of the Festival’s most relevant sections, which includes the first and second films by their directors.
Today the Festival is part of its academic management together with Tabakalera, the Filmoteca Vasca and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. It also has its own subject, Festival Under Construction, the aim of which, also tied in with the research project Zinemaldia 70. All possible stories, coordinated between both institutions, is to provide a collective answer, together with the teachers, students and professionals present at the school, to the question: “What was and what is the San Sebastian Festival and where is it going?”
Thus, several of the Festival’s professionals tutor specific projects by students of the Film Curating department and participate in committees to evaluate the students’ final hypotheses. The Festival also creates and implements a number of specific itineraries for students at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola during the event itself in September (Communication, Technical, Nest) as well as providing a free pass for students starting to study at the school and for those graduating from it (a total of 90).
Lastly, the Festival also sees itself as a space in which students from the school can participate and enjoy their first professional contact thanks to twelve paid work placements in five of its departments: Communication, Web&IT, Industry, Training (Nest), Technical and Z365.
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