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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, director of the film My Favorite War.

A conversation with Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, director of the animated documentary, My Favorite War, about her own experiences of growing up in Soviet Latvia. The film has won many awards on the international scene and is shortlisted for a feature animation Academy Award. In this interview, the director talks about the painstaking process of revisiting her memories and past experiences, as well as the balance between the personal and the universal of this film, and its meticulous animation process.

My Favorite War: a personal animated documentary that tells the story of the director’s growing up in Latvia, part of the Soviet Union, during the years from 1970 to 1990. The Soviet regime used World War II as a significant ideological weapon to intimidate and oppress the population during the Cold War. When Ilze discovers the remains of a German soldier in her backyard sandbox, she begins looking for other stories buried underneath the propaganda.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Juja Dobrachkous, director of the film Bebia, à mon seul désir.

A conversation with Juja Dobrachkous, whose film Bebia, à mon seul désir, will be presented at the upcoming edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The film revisits some of the director’s own memories of her own relationship with her grandmother, which along with tradition serves as some of the foundations of the story for her fiction feature debut. We talk about that as well as the many idiosyncratic techniques she employed to make it, her work with non-actors, the film’s stylish black and white cinematography and the burial custom that makes up for a large part of the narrative – an epic journey that in some ways reflects Dobrachkous’ own epic work on the film.

Bebia, à mon seul désir: Young model Ariadna is suddenly called away from the catwalk to attend her grandmother’s funeral in the small village in Georgia where she was born. After an awkward reunion with her embittered mother she learns that, as the youngest member of the family, she is expected to carry out a special ritual. An ancient tradition said to refer to the Greek myth of Ariadne and her thread. Reluctantly, she sets out to fulfil this strange assignment, which will nevertheless prove pivotal in her own life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Baris Sarhan, director of the film The Cemil Show.

A conversation with Baris Sarhan, director of The Cemil Show, which will be presented at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The film’s origins can be traced back to a short film of the same name made five years ago with most of the same cast. We talk about these origins over the course of the interview, as well as how the feature explores the theme of celebrity, which Sarhan admits to feeling close to him. Other topics touched upon are whether there will be a continuation of this Cemil saga in the future, the type of cinema that he makes reference to throughout the movie and the strong sense of absurdist style that defines The Cemil Show, among other things.

The Cemil Show: When he auditions for the remake of a classic Turkish film, Cemil is rejected almost immediately. He returns to his job as a security guard at a large shopping mall, where he finds out that his colleague is the daughter of veteran actor Turgay Göral, who once played Cemil’s dream part. When Göral dies an ignominious death, Cemil promptly immerses himself in his life’s work. In the meantime, the mild-mannered protagonist is taunted and humiliated from all sides to such an extent that he increasingly withdraws into Göral’s acclaimed villainous role.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Anna Matamala, Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

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ARSAD has become an established forum to exchange ideas on audio description with all interested stakeholders: users, practitioners, researchers, trainers, trainees, regulators, broadcasters, policy makers, social activists, cultural managers and anyone interested in audio description. In 2021, the RAD project organises the ARSAD conference and puts the focus on audio description beyond its traditional boundaries.

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Anna Matamala is Associate Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). Currently leading TransMedia Catalonia, she has participated in and led projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She has taken an active role in the organisation of scientific events (M4ALL, ARSAD), and has published in journals such as Meta, Translator, Perspectives, Babel and Translation Studies.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Dasha Korol, co-producer of  Russian Film Week USA.

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A conversation with Dasha Korol, co-producer of Russian Film Week USA, set to return on January 23-29 with an online edition. This will be the third edition of the event, which promotes Russian cinema in the United States and Korol talks with us about how it has expanded over these years, as well as what the program for this year’s edition looks like and the films that it will showcase.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Nicoletta Romeo, co-director of the Trieste Film Festival.

A conversation about the upcoming edition of the Trieste Film Festival in Italy with its co-director, Nicoletta Romeo. This year’s edition, the 32nd in its history, will take place online on January 21-30, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, Romeo talks about the history and mission statement of the festival, including its focus on central and Eastern Europe. Among other things, she also talks about the decision of going online and some of the defining traits of this year’s program.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ilaria Gomarasca, head of First Cut+.

A conversation with Ilaria Gomarasca, head of First Cut+, the program created for boosting the competitiveness and marketability of feature films that previously participated in First Cut Lab. The conversation was recorded ahead of its Winter Session, which is to take place during the When East Meets West co-production market on January 22-26. In addition to speaking about what will be happening over the course of these days, Gomarasca also talks about how First Cut+ and First Cut Lab at large have been responding to the pandemic as well as how has expanded and plans to continue to expand in the near future.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Pilar Orero, full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain).

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The 9th International Conference Media for All will be held online on 27-28-29 January 2021 organised by TransMedia Catalonia.

Pre-conference workshops: 27 January 2021.

Main conference: 28 and 29 January 2021.

Tomorrow’s mediascape will be a transformed landscape where collaboration, partnership and mutual understanding will be key to success for traditional and new players. New voices, new workflows, and new technologies will provide great opportunities to interact and initiate lasting changes in business models and in discussions that progress from tolerating difference to celebrating diversity. Media for All 9 will provide a platform for all stakeholders, from researchers and developers to analysts, audiences and business leaders to present their findings, developments, ideas and experiences from the multi-faceted world of audiovisual translation and media accessibility and to highlight in particular their technological, social, financial and academic impact. The conference will promote creative thinking and provide a forum for people to share knowledge and expand their horizons while demonstrating the true potential of multidisciplinary work. Media for All 9 will host participants representing all sectors with the explicit goal of exploring how collaborative approaches and methodologies as well as advances in technology and skillsets will transform the panorama of media accessibility and translation, and contribute to creating a society for all.

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Pilar Orero (PhD, UMIST) is the INDRA-ADDECCO Chair in Accessible Technology and full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a world-leading scholar in media accessibility with vast experience in standardisation and policy-making, She is a scientific/organizing committee member of many conferences, including Media4All, ARSAD, and Video Games for All. She has delivered, upon invitation, more than 15 plenary lectures and 30 guest lectures all over the world, including at the 9th United Nations Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York, 2016).

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