The Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón won the Golden Bear at the 72nd Berlinale last night with Alcarràs, a film that pays tribute to the cultivation and work of Catalan farmers. She is the first Spanish female director to win this award. 

Tomorrow, Friday 18, at 19:00, Carla Simón will take part in a new session of 'Filmmakers' Dialogues' together with the film editor Ana Pfaff. In addition to being collaborators, they are both members of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola teaching staff. As a result of their collaboration in Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993, 2017) they will talk about editing and their cinematographic vision, and there will be no shortage of references to this historic moment that the filmmakers are living. A total of 280 people, who have previously registered for the course, will be able to follow the session online. 

Estiu 1993 (Summer 1993, 2017) was her first film, produced by Inicia Films and Avalon. It also premiered at the Berlinale, where it wo the Best First Feature Award and the Grand Prix of the International Jury in the Generation Kplus section. It also won the Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Festival, the Best Director Award at BAFICI, the Jury Mention at the Istanbul Festival and the Best Film Award at Odessa, among others. Carla Simón was a member of the jury of the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section at the San Sebastian Festival in 2017.

Each filmmaker will be accompanied by one of the people that they usually collaborate with in various areas, because although the artistic vision is usually attributed to the director, in a film project, aspects like the script, financing, production, shooting or post-production undeniably form part of the creative process. For this reason, each filmmaker and their companion will share their different artistic visions and will include working materials such as dossiers, scripts, shooting plans and documents shared between the production and direction departments.

This course aims to provide cinema fans with new keys to achieving a better understanding of what is hidden from view in the production and making of a film. 'Filmmakers' dialogue' will reveal, in an entertaining series of conversations, the intra-history of the creative process of filmmaking.

The course, as well as decentralising the director's unique gaze, also aims to make the most traditional trades in the development of a project better known, and as a result, to learn to watch and interpret cinema in a critical manner, in a context whose circumstances are leading it to evolve in every possible direction.

This new commitment to cinema by Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea comes on top of the measures to support, promote and disseminate audiovisual projects that the Department of Culture of the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council is carrying out in this area. These range from the setting up of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, to the grants to enroll at this school, the Lanabesa grant programme –which since 2017, has provided support for more than 70 long-term audiovisual projects– or Gipuzkoa Provincial Council becoming a member of the San Sebastian-Gipuzkoa Film Commission.