ZG PRO is Zinegoak’s professional space focused on innovation, research, and training around LGTBIQ+ audiovisual production. Its aim is to support, give visibility to, and connect projects and professionals working in cinema related to sexual, identity, and gender diversity.
Although queer cinema has gained more presence in commercial circuits in recent years, access to these spaces remains limited for most projects. For this reason, ZG PRO 2026 reaffirms its commitment to supporting LGTBIQ+ film creation at a local, national, and international level.
The program is developed in collaboration with the Southern European LGTBIQ+ Festival Network (Queer Lisboa and Queer Porto, Mix Milano, Chéries-Chéris Paris, and Zinegoak), and the Spanish Network of LGBTIQ+ Labs, which includes FIRE!! LAB, QueerCineLab —bringing together the festivals Lesgaicinemad, Cinhomo, Andalesgai, and Fancinequeer— and Zinegoak. Together with the San Sebastián International Film Festival (SSIFF), and for the third consecutive year, each lab awards the ZG PRO Industry SSIFF Prize, enabling the producers’ team of the winning project to access the festival’s industry forums.
As a new addition, ZG PRO incorporates the collaboration of Triodos Bank, sponsor of the ZG PRO LABORATEGIA Prize, endowed with €3,000 and the Neurads Award, which offers a mentoring process for the development of projects with a queer focus. It also receives support from Music Library & SFX, sponsor of the ZG PRO Music Library Prize, and includes the participation of the digital market Incoproduction.
ZG PRO takes place over two days at Azkuna Zentroa: on June 25, ZG PRO Master Class, featuring talks by audiovisual and cultural professionals; and on June 26, ZG PRO LAB, which includes project pitching sessions, specialized conferences, and one-to-one meetings.
All ZG PRO activities are open to the public, with a special focus on industry professionals and students interested in film industry practices linked to LGTBIQ+ culture.
ZGPRO 2026
Speakers
Ana David
Berlinale Programmer and Queer Lisboa/Porto co-director
Julia Martos
Filmmaker, programmer, researcher
Fer Rivas
Writer, stage director and playwright
June Fernandez
Journalist, writer, partner at Hiruki Larroxa
Isabel Cadenas Cañon
Writer and director of documentary audio programmes
Lucia Egaña
Artist, curator, writer, researcher and pedagogue
Jacqueline Nsiah
Cultural anthropologist, film curator, programmer
MarÃa Rosón
Historian, researcher, professor
Joseba Olagarai
Journalist, promoter of the Xerka project
Oier Zuñiga
Actor, creator of Apoloren genealogiak project
Master Class
25 june
Sala Bastida
Azkuna Zentroa
10:00
Round table
Trails and traces of queer memory in the Basque Country
June Fernández, Oier Zuñiga, Joseba Olagarai
Mod: Julen Nafarrate Aurrekoetxea (Zinegoak)
In Basque. With simultaneous interpretation.
Our history will be lost if we do not tell it ourselves. Or even worse, if others tell it for us. Projects focusing on LGBTIQ+ memory have flourished in the Basque Country in recent years, undertaken from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds: from grassroots movements, from the institutional sphere, or from cultural spaces. But what kind of benchmarks are we creating? Is there a roadmap for building a shared narrative? Is it necessary?
25 june
Sala Bastida
Azkuna Zentroa
11:00
Presentation
Disrupting the collapse, disorienting time
Lucia Egaña
In SpanishÂ
Our sensory experience of science and technology is made up of visual and cultural references that have taken hold of our imaginary. Inside, we find ourselves trapped, anxiously searching for a future that promises survival. What experiences can dissenting voices from the south bring to disrupt this perverse cycle? How can we disrupt the flow of time to expand our imagination of what is possible?
25 june
Sala Bastida
Azkuna Zentroa
12:00
Conversation
Intersectionality and defiant choices
Ana David, Jacqueline Nsiah
Mod: AnaÃs Córdova-Páez (Zinegoak)
In English. With simultaneous interpretation
Ana David and Jacqueline Nsiah will discuss the challenges and possibilities of queer film programming that is committed to intersectional perspectives and critical curatorial practices, in contrast to the dominant criteria of major international festivals. Based on their experiences, they will reflect on representation, dissidence and the limits of hegemonic cultural structures, as well as ways to open up new spaces for visibility and resistance.
25 june
Sala Bastida
Azkuna Zentroa
13:00
Round table
Gathering the fragments, recomposing a ruined archive: gleaning queer discontinuous memory
Isabel Cádenas Cañón, Fer Rivas, MarÃa Rosón
Mod: Julia Martos
In Spanish. With simultaneou interpretation
MarÃa Rosón, Isabel Cadenas Cañón and Fer Rivas will approach these other ways of constructing a memory of dissent together in a discussion moderated by Julia Martos. Faced with the persecution of expressions of queer life and in the face of censored representation, these denied identities create new materialist methodologies of memory that queer the official archive: twisting it until the resulting fractured image reveals its contradictions and exposes its gaps.
Jury
Ainhoa Gonzalez SanchÃs
Head for Creative Europe Desk MEDIA Euskadi’s office from where she works in the promotion of Basque cinema. She has participated in the most important international markets of Europe and has been actively involved in organizing innovative and active presentations/workshops – important tools for education and networking – between Basque but also European film professionals.
Daniel Feter
Holding a degree in Fine Arts, he is a Copyright Manager at Music Library & SFX, the exclusive representative company in Spain for the Audio Network production music catalogue. His work encompasses licensing, music supervision and content creation, combining his professional experience with his passion for artistic and performing arts, an activity he continues to pursue alongside his professional duties.
David Velduque
Queer director and creator who has a committed and transgressive outlook. A benchmark of LGTBIQ+ cinema in Spanish, he has directed titles such as Estigma (Fantastic Fest), Animal and Transición. He directs and presents Sabor a queer, a videopodcast nominated for the Premios Ondas and the ODA (Audiovisual Diversity Awards).
Gorka Garcia Peral
He holds a degree in Journalism and a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Scriptwriting. In 1995, he received a scholarship from Deia newspaper and in 1997 he worked as an editor for Euskal Telebista, the channel where he has spent a large part of his career. Between 2003 and 2007 he was its Artistic Coordinator, and between 2007 and 2013 he was Deputy Artistic Director, and since 2013 he has been Programme and Artistic Director at the same television network.
Mayra Alejandra Morán Vásquez
Filmmaker in television and cinema (University of Chile, 2012), Master’s degree in Film Restoration and Archiving (EQZE), specialising in hybrid and experimental cinema. Since 2011, she has edited more than twenty short and feature-length films that have been selected for festivals such as Havana, Visions Du Réel, Toronto, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Valdivia, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Kerala, Beijing, Hong Kong, Caracas, Mexico City, Bilbao and San Sebastián, amongst others.
Yolanda GarcÃa Suso
Manager of audiovisual companies and institutions at Triodos Bank since 2014. She is involved in financing films, TV series, documentaries and theatre projects. Her aim is to make a positive impact on society by tailoring financing models to the cash flow, schedule and milestones of each production.
Awards
ZG PRO Laborategia Award supported by Triodos Bank
3.000 € awarded to the outstanding project of the ZG PRO Lab 2026. Supported by Triodos Bank.
Industry SSIFF ZG PRO Award
It consists of a travel bag, accreditation, travel and accommodation for two days at the SSIFF, as well as an agenda of meetings with various production companies and industry agents. This is an initiative developed by the State Network of LGTBIQ+ Laboratories in collaboration with the SSIFF.
Premio ZG PRO Neurads Award
 This consists of a project development consultancy programme with a queer focus, offered by the film division of the production company Neurads. It will comprise seven bespoke sessions covering screenwriting, production or the preparation of materials for film labs and industry events.
Music Library ZG PRO Award
Sponsored by Music Library & SFX. It consists of a set fee with access to the AudioNetwork and AltMusic production catalogues, as well as 360º music monitoring services, discounts on commercial music rights negotiation fees and the provision of studios and SFX, with an estimated value of €1,500.
Projects
Anteriores
