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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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Merida (Venezuela), 1931. From 1947 until 1949, he studied at the Teatro Experimental in Caracas, going on to study directing under Lee Strasberg in New York.
His relationship with cinema started in the 50s as assistant director to the Mexican Víctor Urruchúa, who directed two movies in Venezuela, Seis meses de vida and Luz en el Páramo. From 1955 until 1958, he was artistic director with Televisora Nacional, a position interrupted for political reasons. In 1969 he returned to television, this time working for Radio Caracas TV, where he stayed until his resignation in 1982.
Chalbaud is an important theatre writer and director. In 1965 he was named president of the UNESCO-dependent Instituto Latinoamericano de Teatro (ILAT). He holds the Premio Nacional de Teatro (1984) and the Premio Nacional de Cine (1990), in addition to the Orden Andrés Bello (First Class) and the Orden al Mérito (First Class).
In 1974 he founded, together with Miguel Angel Landa and César Bolívar, the company Gente de Cine, with which he has made the majority of his feature films. In 1978 he was named President of the Asociación Nacional de Autores Cinematográficos (ANAC). He was also Director General of the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela.
All of his films have been screened at important festivals and institutions, such as the San Sebastian International Film Festival (which dedicated a retrospective to him in 1985; he was also an Official Jury member in 1990), the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Universidad Autónoma de México and the Spanish Film Archive. El pez que fuma (The Smoking Fish) landed the Golden India Catalina Award for Best Film at the Cartagena de Indias Festival (1979) and Pandemonium the Best Film Award at La Cita (International Festival of Latin American Cinema) in Biarritz.
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