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).
The  Chilean actress and stage director Paulina García Alfonso has participated in  over twenty major plays including Orates,  with text and directing by Jaime Lorca and Paulina García; Las analfabetas, by Pablo Paredes, who bagged the Altazor Award  2011 for Best Dramaturgy; Fábula de un  niño y los animales que se mueren (2011), re-written by Pablo Paredes on Euripides’ The Trojan Women; and A. Checkov’s Uncle Vanya, directed by Raúl Osorio. 
She  has directed more than 15 plays and won the FONDART prize designed to help  artists in the creation and research of their projects. With the FONDART National  Arts Development Fund Award, in 2013 she directed the work Cerca de Moscú, the re-written version of Platonov and Ivanov by  Pablo Paredes. 
She won the Altazor and APES awards for her  work as a theatre and television actress on three occasions. She has been  invited to premiere her works at the “Santiago a Mil” Festival on another  three. 
Paulina García starred in Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria, winner of the Films in Progress  Award at the San Sebastian Festival in 2012. Her part earned her the Silver  Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Festival in 2013, and the Best Actress  Awards at the Lima and Valparaíso festivals (DIVA). The film carried off the  Best Director Award at both events.
At SANFIC 2013, she premiered the films Génesis Nirvana, by Alejandro Lagos, I am from Chile, by Gonzalo Díaz, and Las analfabetas, by Moisés Sepúlveda,  selected for the Critics’ Week in Venice and for the Chicago Festival. She also  performed in R. Lorena,by Isidora Marrás, a participant in the  Carte Blanche Section of the recent Locarno Festival. 
In television she participated in the series  directed by Nicolás Acuña, Cárcel de  mujeres and Los archivos del  cardenal, winner of the CNTV 2012 award for a second season. 
She was a panellist  for the national FONDART 2003 competition, the National Dramaturgy Competition in  2006 and 2007 and the First Feminine Dramaturgy Competition in 2003. She is a  permanent member of the Advisory Board of the “Santiago a Mil” Festival and was  a member (2006-2009) of the editorial board of the theatre magazine Apuntes published by the Universidad  Católica in Chile. She sat on the executive of the Union of Theatre Actors  SIDARTE (2005-2007) and was a founder of the Fundación del Centro de Extensión  Cultural SIDARTE (CECSI), of which she was a member from 2006 to 2011. Between  1997 and 2001 she founded and belonged to the Association of Theatre Directors  (ADT).  
She also teaches at the Finis Terrae University, giving workshops on  stage directing, theatre acting and on-camera acting.
 
                


