San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that it is instituting a prize in its Zabaltegi sidebar.
This section, which inccludes documentaries and fiction features, tends to include works by established directors, but which aren't having their world premiere at the festival. Last year, names such as Eric Khoo, Corneliu Porumboiu and Jem Cohen were among the line-up.
The festival has joined forces with the Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary art, to institute the Zabaltegi - Tabakalera Award, carrying a €20,000 purse, €6,000 of which will go to the director and the remaining €14,000 to the distributor of the film in Spain.
The Zabaltegi - Tabakalera Award will be decided by a specially constituted jury made up of at least three professionals from the world of film and culture.
The festival said in a statement: "Under this agreement, the two institutions seek to encourage the creation of unusual and surprising film projects at narrative and formal level and to extend the shared collaboration and work that they have now been carrying out for years."
This year's festival will run from September 16 to 24.
