Criticism and Analysis Sessions

The purpose of the Seminar of Criticism and Analysis Sessions is to provide students at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola with tools, as well as a certain perspective, for defining their professional lives after studying at the school. The event, organised by the EQZE and the San Sebastian Festival, will have the participation of professionals and specialists from different industry spheres.

The purpose of the Seminar of Criticism and Analysis Sessions is to provide students at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola with tools, as well as a certain perspective, for defining their professional lives after studying at the school. The event, organised by the EQZE and the San Sebastian Festival, will have the participation of professionals and specialists from different industry spheres who will contribute their proven experience to developing the students’ projects. The aim is to guarantee that the students’ projects will have greater strength at the end of their post-graduate programme.

The Seminar will open on Tuesday December 18 with a double working session for students focussed on two questions. On the one hand, with Javier Martín, delegate for Latin American countries at the Berlinale and member of the committee responsible for assessing projects at San Sebastian Festival’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, they will study real cases and working material lending certain keys to success in the drawing up and presentation of project dossiers to labs and to public and private institutions granting financial aid for project development. 

On the other hand, with the bertsolari (singer of improvised Basque verse), writer and professor Xabier Paya, they will learn how to present themselves orally, a common practice at markets and festivals, where film projects must be defended before professionals.

On December 19 and 20 a series of talks open to the public will be given by Thierry Frémaux (Director of the Lumière Institute, of Lyon’s Lumière Festival and of the Cannes Festival), Vincent Maraval (Founding Partner and Director of International Sales with Wild Bunch and Insiders) and Carlo Chatrian (Art Director of the Berlin Film Festival from 2020) who will talk about the place occupied by festivals in the film industry and culture promotion.

Programme

Tuesday 18 | 09:30 - 13:30

• EQZE - Closed event, open for EQZE students only
• Javier Martín and Xabier Paya 

Wednesday 19 | 11:00 - 13:00

• Cinema Screen 1 (Tabakalera) - Open event
• Thierry Frémaux and Vincent Maraval

Thursday 20 | 16:00 - 18:00

• Cinema Screen 1 (Tabakalera) - Open event
• Carlo Chatrian