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Maialen Beloki has been appointed arsenic nan adjacent head of nan San Sebastián Film Festival to switch longtime caput José Luis Rebordinos erstwhile he steps down astatine nan extremity of this year.
Beloki, who has been 1 of nan lawman board of nan show since 2016, will return up nan station successful January 2027.
Her assignment was agreed astatine an bonzer gathering connected Monday of nan festival’s Executive Board, made up of San Sebastián City Council, nan Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, nan Basque Government and nan Spanish Ministry of Culture.
The determination followed an unfastened title launched connected 4 March to name a successor to Rebordinos who has held nan station of show head since 2011.
Beloki holds a grade successful Audiovisual Communication from nan University of Navarra and a PhD (Cum Laude) successful Film Theory, Analysis and Documentation from nan University of nan Basque Country (UPV/EHU).
Her profession combines taste management, school and research. She is portion of nan Academic Board of Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, wherever she besides lectures, and has collaborated arsenic a professor astatine Mondragon Unibertsitatea.
Throughout her career, she has participated successful strategical projects specified arsenic Donostia/San Sebastián European Capital of Culture 2016 and has developed an progressive domiciled arsenic a speaker and writer successful nan section of cinema.
She has besides contributed to respective programmes and initiatives supporting nan audiovisual sector, collaborating pinch institutions specified arsenic nan Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA).
The show said nan assignment process had been managed by Batea, a quality resources consultancy specializing successful recruitment and headhunting.
