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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Marina Ramos Caro, Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia.

Research on audio description has undergone an enormous development in the last decade. Marina Ramos Caro, one of the speakers at ARSAD 2023, tells us more about emotions, objectivity versus subjectivity, and the role of ideology in audio description. Since 2007, ARSAD has been the meeting point for researchers, industry, trainers, trainees, users, practitioners, regulators, broadcasters, policy makers, social activists, cultural managers and anyone interested in audio description. ARSAD aims to be a thought-provoking event where we can learn about the present of audio description across the globe from multidisciplinary perspectives and where we can get a glimpse of the future of this fascinating access mode.

Marina Ramos Caro, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Murcia, Spain. She is particularly interested in the influence of emotions and personality in the process and reception of translation and audio description. Marina Ramos has been awarded several international grants, presented her work at international conferences, and published in journals (Journal of Pragmatics, MonTi, Translation Spaces, The Translator, Perspectives, Journal of Specialised Translation, Onomázein). As a professional translator, she has mainly worked within the fields of subtitling, dubbing, and transcreation. She is also the founder and director of Latrium, the Laboratory for Inclusive Translation of the University of Murcia, a project aimed at promoting the accessibility of the performing arts in the Region of Murcia by means of live surtitles and AD.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Sophia Wong Boccio, founder and executive director of the Asian Pop-Up Cinema.

In the interview with Sophia Wong Boccio, we talked about her experience at Far East Film Festival and about her work as founder of Asian Pop-Up Cinema in Chicago.

In the early 1990’s where that love of film launched her own career in the industry. While working in Beijing, Sophia launched a Sophia’s Choice movie series, bringing Chinese films and cultural exchange with the film’s actors and directors to Beijing’s expatriate and diplomatic community.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Johnnie To, director of the film Sparrow.

In the interview with Johnnie To, director of Sparrow and Election we talked about the usual Milkyway Image technical expertise that characterizes his works; to underline, in particular, the versatile photography of Cheng Siu Keung and the persuasive music of Xavier Jamaux and Fred Avril.

Sparrow: Kei is the expert leader of a pickpocket team. (Pickpockets are also known as “Sparrows” in Hong Kong slang). He enjoys a carefree lifestyle by taking pictures with his vintage Rolleiflex. One day a charming beauty, Chun-Lei, suddenly appears in Kei’s sights. Kei is hypnotized. Each member of her team has an encounter with her… But behind her attractive facade of her Chun-lei hides a mysterious past and a mission to get rid of her.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Matsunaga Daishi, director of the film Egoist.

In the interview with Matsunaga Daishi, the director of Egoist, we talked about about the key points that were at the center of the original novel and how he encountered it.

Egoist: There was a period, not so long ago, in which homosexual characters in Hollywood films were painted with different shades of evil (if you google “queer-coded Disney villains” you will see long lists of famous titles). In the Japanese film industry in recent years, LGBTQ characters have moved ever closer to the mainstream, albeit rarely as moral exemplars. The title of Matsunaga Daishi’s groundbreaking new film Egoist, based on Takayama Makoto’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, suggests much the same thing when the gay editor of a fashion magazine (Suzuki Ryohei) makes his hot personal trainer (Miyazawa Hio) a well-rewarded lover. The meaning of the title, however, is more elusive than it appears at first glance.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Hiroki Ryuchi, director of the film Phases of the Moon.

In the interview with Hiroki Ryuchi, director of Phases of the Moon, we talked about the details hidden in the movie that recalls another movie “A Swedish Love Story” and how the director adapted the bestselling novel by Sato Shogo.

Techno Brothers: Kei Osanai enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Kozue and daughter Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Kei’s life suddenly changes. One day, a man named Akihiko Misumi visits Kei and tells him that the day Kozue and Ruri died, Ruri, who was a complete stranger to him, was visiting him. Akihiko tells him about a woman named Ruri Masaki, whom he once loved. These people, who don’t appear to be related, connect under the name of love.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviewsWatanabe Hirobumi and Watanabe Yuji, director and composer of the film Techno Brothers.

In the interview with Watanabe Hirobumi and Watanabe Yuji, director and composer of Techno Brothers, we talked about the concept of Watashishosetsu, the japanese novels of the self and the reference to John Landis’1980 musical comedy, The Blues Brothers.

Techno Brothers: However, there are elements that Watanabe fans know well, from the flat and anonymous landscape of Tochigi to the arrogant and mysterious boss Riko, played by Hisatsugu Riko, the girl who starred in several Watanabe films and is a bit his muse in miniature. Sitting in a folding chair in the middle of a field and speaking through a burly assistant (Watanabe), she tells Himuro that the group’s techno sound “isn’t fit for the modern age,” but to try her luck in Tokyo. When Himuro asks her to finance the trip, Riko replies, “Aren’t you musicians? Earn money yourself!”

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Suzuki Masayuki, Wakamatsu Hiroki, Koyama Kundo, director, producer and screenwriter of the film Yudo – The way of the bath.

In the interview with Suzuki Masayuki, Wakamatsu Hiroki and Koyama Kundo, director, producer and screenwriter of Yudo, we talked about the real message at center of its story.

Yudo – The way of the bath:Shiro and Goro inherit an onsen, the traditional public baths we’ve seen in dozens of Japanese movies. The former would like to build a small building, the latter to carry on the business. Witness of this encounter/clash a series of delightful characters, from the austere “toilet critic” to the customers of the establishment, who with their load of humanity demonstrate how much tradition and innovation can be compatible.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Shogen and Matsuura Ryo, actor and actress of December, your lovely smile.

In the interview with Shogen (Your Lovely Smile) and Matsuura Ryo, actor and actress of December, we talked about their roles in the movies at the Far East Film Festival 25 and how the learned to play their character in such a sublime way.

December, your lovely smile: Watanabe Hirobumi is the most eccentric Japanese director of the moment. Having said that, let’s ask ourselves what would happen if Watanabe plays Watanabe in a cinematic short circuit… Lim Kah Wai has dared to create a mockumentary that sees ours in the role of an indie director touring the cinemas of Japan to propose his film. Behind the bewildered and rarefied comedy, an act of love for independent cinema.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Kim Jin-young, director of film The Other Child.

In the interview with Kim Jin-young director of The Other Child we talked about the original idea behind the story and how the horror and the drama each feed into and complement each other.

The Other Child is an occult horror film about the suppressed feelings of a family that experienced a tragic accident. After the tragic death of the third child with a disability, the pastor and his wife decide to adopt a new child.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Ej Jallorina and Maris Racal, actresses of the film Where Is the Lie?

In the interview with Ej Jallorina and Maris Racal, main actresses in Where Is the Lie we talked about the challenges to act in a story like that and what’s the real essence of their characters.

Where Is the Lie?: Played on fragments, on flashbacks that intersect with the present planes of the three characters, Where is the Lie? by the Filipino Quark Henares is a very contemporary work in form, brilliant in execution and in which the interpretations of the two main protagonists stand out, especially by Maris Racal in the part of the sadistic Beanie.

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