An encounter for living in cinema
This programme offers an open space for dialogue and reflection on the many ways of living, thinking and making films today. Aimed at young film students and recent graduates, the gathering invites participants to explore the diversity of professional paths which shape the contemporary audiovisual landscape.
In the course of a morning, professionals from a range of disciplines – such as production, directing, archiving, curating and distribution – will share their trajectories, experiences and ways of understanding their craft. Beyond the traditional boundaries between the technical and the artistic, the proposal seeks to broaden the idea of “making films” as a living practice, in constant dialogue with its social and cultural context.
The format will be a round table moderated by actress and filmmaker Aia Kruse, in discussions with a number of professionals who are engaged in multiple roles in the industry, and form part of a generation which combines practice, reflection and a close rapport with new audiences.
Here, cinema is presented as a tool for critical thought, a meeting point, and a form of collective action. Listening to how each guest inhabits this territory opens up ways of imagining new forms of collaboration, creation and sustainability for projects in an ever-changing audiovisual world. You are invited to take part in a space for sharing, questioning and reimagining together what cinema can be today.
Julieta Juncadella
“PÓRTICO / ATARIA” PROGRAMME – ZINEBI📅 Saturday 22 November – From: 10:30 to 13:30 h Cines Golem Alhóndiga – Azkuna Zentro. |
10:30 – Welcome, Round Table and PresentationsEstimated duration: 1 h 45 min Round tableParticipants: Colloquium |
12:15 h – Gaztedoku Awards Ceremony and ZINEBI EXPRESS Awards CeremonyPresented and moderated by: Ugaitz Alegría Estimated duration: 1 h 15 min
• Screening of ZINEBI Express short films
• Best Documentary Award: Lehen Saiakera, by Marina Perosanz |
⏱️ Total duration of the event: 195 minutes. |
ROUND TABLE GUESTS
ANAÍS CÓRDOVA-PÁEZ
She reflects on how politics, ecology, gender and moving images interact in the Internet era. She conducts her research from a transhackfeminist perspective. Her work makes care the centre, challenging art production and exhibition processes. She experiments with film, programmes at EQUIS Feminist Film Festival (Ecuador) and Zinegoak (Bilbao) and is a curator at UNSEEN (Croatia). She was a 2022 Flaherty Seminar Fellow and an international Atmospheres of Violence guest at Harvard University 2023.Her latest short film, Viento, co-directed with Sofía La Suerte, will be premiered at Zinebi 2025.
EMILIO PAPAMIJA
Emilio Papamija is an artist and a trans anti-racist decolonial activist. He is currently an audiovisual adviser and trainer specialising in diversity at IntimAct, and has delivered training programmes at institutions such as the Academy of Cinema, Netflix, ECAM, TAI, the SSIFF, LesGaiCineMad, SANFIC (Chile), Greenpeace, Matadero Madrid and La Casa Encendida. He also works in several lines of subaltern pedagogy and research. As a specialist in the implementation of gender policies and cultural policies, he worked on government projects and political campaigns in Spain and Colombia, including the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s current cultural rights plan (2024). He trained in cultural mediation with the deaf community and in herpetology.
IRENE BAQUÉ
She is a film director and photographer. Her work explores themes related to identity and gender, portraying real stories and characters both in her commercial work and in her documentaries. Her images are authentic, intimate and feminine, playing with colour and composition. Her latest short film, Mal de madre, will have its national premiere at Zinebi 2025.
ANTONIO MIGUEL ARENAS
Filmmaker. He was one of the founders of Revista Magnolia, an online film criticism and analysis publication. He formed part of the Punto de Vista press office in 2016 and 2017. In 2018 he completed the Postgraduate Curating Programme at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola Film School in San Sebastián. Since 2021 he has been t artistic director for the Festival Jóvenes Realizadores in Granada, with which he has been linked for a decade. He directed the short film Topo estrellado (2023), curated by the José Guerrero Centre in Granada. He is currently the coordinator of La Distribuidora at ECAM, where he is also a lecturer.
EQZE FILM SCHOOL GUESTS – “DEPÓSITO ZINEBI” PROJECT
MATIAS FAJN
Matías Fajn (Buenos Aires, 1995) is a film researcher. For five years he was general producer at the Avellaneda Municipal Audiovisual Communication Secretariat. He carried out cataloguing, research and curating work on film and documentary collections at the ARTIUM Basque Country Contemporary Art Museum, at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and for the “Depósito ZINEBI” project by the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola Film School.
ESMERALDA REYNOTH
From Honduras, albeit based in Argentina. She studied Combined Arts and the Teacher Training Programme in Arts for Higher and Middle Education at the University of Buenos Aires. She worked at the UNTREF audiovisual production company on academic series and cultural entertainment productions. She has worked with independent cultural magazines. She has served as a jury member at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the Ícaro Honduras Festival and FUSAGASUGÁ; and has been involved in the Berlinale Talents and Locarno Industry Academy programmes. She was also a curator at Cine En Femenino Festival, and she coordinates Archivo Kaikaya, a study space on Honduran cinema from which she directs the Semana de Cine Recuperado and Cineclub Utopía.
