Zinemaldia & Technology announces a competition for business projects, now in its second edition

The Basque Government, through its Department of Economic Development and Infrastructures, promotes the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the core initiative of the second edition of this activity, organised by the San Sebastian Festival, Tecnalia, Tabakalera and Petronor, which has the collaboration of Creative Europe MEDIA and of the applied research centre Vicomtech. With Tabakalera, which will participate in the  rogramming through its new audiovisual laboratory 2deo, work continues to extend the activity for over more days.

In its first edition, last September, Zinemaldia & Technology constituted a meeting place for technologists, filmmakers and professionals from the film industry. The event, which opened with a masterclass given by the moviemaker J.A. Bayona, gathered public and private agents who are enabling the integration of technology to the sector.

The call for the submission of new business projects, going by the name of Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, opens today, 6 May, and the deadline for receiving candidatures will end on 15 June. The competition is intended for entrepreneurs and recently created startups –constituted after 31 December 2016– proposing new business projects based on the incorporation of new technologies and aimed at the audiovisual field. Participants must also have a legal residence in a European country as well as the intention to set their business project in motion in the Basque Country.

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