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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jane Williams, Head of Studies Torino Film Lab.

Jane Williams, member of the pedagocical team of the Torino Film Lab, and head of studies of TFL and also of Biennale Cinema College, talks about her job and the issues that producers and film directors are facing in this specific times and with the broadening of opportunities of fruition of film productions.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews James Erskine, director of the film Billie. 

James Erskine penned an astonishing documentary about one of the wildest and exploited music icon in history through hours of original interviews to the greatesT jazz musicians , and friends and relatives that worked and knew Billie Holiday. How these recordings were made and what happened around them is the additional fantastic story that pairs with the tale of the excessive life of the great Billie.

Billie: In the late 1960’s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices of all time, a figure of controversy: a black woman in a white man’s world, both a victim and a rebel. The testimonies ranged from musical greats like Charles Mingus, Tony Bennett, Sylvia Syms and Count Basie to her cousin, school friends, lovers, lawyers, pimps and even the FBI agents who arrested her. But Linda’s book was never finished and the tapes unplayed. Now, five decades after, James Erskine had access to 200 hours of never-before-heard interviews; and thanks to this astonishing material, his film showcases an American legend, capturing her depths and complexity.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Peter Lichter and Bori Maté, directors of the film The Philosophy Of Horror. 

Peter Lichter and Bori Maté are interested in the theoretical analysis , and they love horror films. So, why not putting the two things together? They used a book as a literary base and they started their own travel within images and sounds of a genre, decomposing it into concepts and qualifications. An interesting approach, as you can hear in this talk.

The Philosophy Of Horror: The film is an abstract and visual adaptation of Noël Carroll’s book with the same title published in 1990, which proposes a careful examination of the film genre. Péter Lichter and Bori Máté use the decayed, hand-painted 35mm film of the classic horror movie A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and of the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) to propose a reflection on horror through an experimental audiovisual product.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Cody Calahan and Chad Archibald, director and producer of the film The Oak Room. 

Cody Calahan and Chad Archibald , director and producer of The Oak Room tell us something more about the film: the origin and the adaptation from the stage play and the challenge of telling many stories into one another , the aim of not making a classical horror film but a thriller with a horror flare, and the snow blizzards in Canada

The Oak Room: During a violent snowstorm, Paul, a bar owner in a small Canadian town, has just closed his bar when Steve, a tramp with a load of bags, asks to come in. After the initial tension between the two, Steve tells the bartender a story to settle an old debt between them. It is the story of another snowy night, another bar, The Oak Room, and another bartender whom an unknown guy visits shortly after closing time. But even within this story there is another one, and then yet another one. The night turns into a dark tale, between violence and identity exchanges.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Paolo Manera, director of Film Commission Torino Piemonte.

Paolo Manera, director of Film Commission Torino Piemonte, and on of the vice presidents of the Italian Film Commission Association participated in two panels about development funds that were held during the days pf Torino Film Industry 2020. We hear form his words how these fund works, how they can be used and the synergy among all Italian film commissions to work together towards the same goal of helping developments of film projects, as the principal and most important phase of creation in the mechanism of film productions.

To discover more about Film Commission Torino Piemonte activities, click here.

This interview was recorded during the 38th edition of Turin Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh, deputy director of the Torino Film Festival, is a lawyer that chose gender equality as one of the aims of her work. In connection with her commitment at Torino Film Festival, she launched a campaign for a worldwide recognition and acknowledgment of women rights and equality called The Lady Boss campaign. Check about it on instagram and facebook, but first listen to her telling us about the reasons, the motivations and the actions that the campaign will bring on.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Raffaella Delvecchio, production manager of Apulia Film Commission, and Nevina Satta, director of Sardegna Film Commission.

Raffaella Delvecchio of Apulia Film Commission and Nevina Satta of Sardegna Film Commission join AngeloAcerbi for a chat on the way to promote the territory, which intentions and ideals hide behind this and the way that a territory can be used in narrating stories for cinema, using the example of a special person and film director who worked in both regions, Valentina Pedicini, who suddenly passed away some days ago.

To discover more about Apulia Film Commission activities, click here.

To discover more about Sardegna Film Commission activities, click here.

This interview was recorded during the 38th edition of Turin Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, director of the film The Salt in Our Waters. 

Rezwan Shahriar Sumit directs a lean and poetic film, where art and superstition clash, where nature rules but it is Allah that rules everything anyway, where simple people can be manipulated and where life is anyway happy and simple, too. The film has been selected for and developed through the Audience Design program of the Torino Film Lab.

The Salt in Our Waters: For his latest art installation, Rudro journeys to a remote mangrove isle on the Bangladeshi Delta, a day’s boat ride and a world away from modern, crowded Dhaka. Welcomed by the local fishermen and their leader Chairman, Rudro’s modern ideas and lifelike sculptures enchant the village boys and his landlord’s daughter. But when the local Ilish catch proves elusive, the elders blame Rudro’s “idolatry” for the curse of empty nets. In this vanishing land where sea and sky merge, a storm is brewing and change – welcome or not – is coming.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, directors of the film This Is My Desire. 

A conversation with Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, directors of This Is My Desire from the 2020 Torino Film Festival. In this interview, they share the motivations that drive their filmmaking. They also talk about how they wanted to humanize the theme of migration via their work, the importance of observation in their process, the reason behind their shooting This Is My Desire on 16mm film and more.

This Is My Desire: Mofe and Rosa live in Lagos. He works in a factory; she is a hairdresser. They want to emigrate in the hope of finding a better life abroad than the one they have in Nigeria. But destiny seems to thwart their plans and when their dream evaporates, they are forced to reconsider the possibility of constructing their longed-for future at home. From Nigeria, a powerful debut in which drama, but also patience and the ability to come up with solutions, take on the form of daily life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mian Mian Lu, director of the film Mickey on the Road. 

A conversation with Mian Mian Lu, director of Mickey on the Road, presented at the 30th Torino Film Festival. The film talks about two young women who set off from Taiwan to China, one in search of her boyfriend, the other in search of her father. In this interview, Mian Mian Lu talks about the origins of her interest in cinema, as this is her feature debut. She also talks about several of the themes explored in the movie, including gender, the contrast of modernity and tradition, and more.

Mickey on the Road: Taiwan. Mickey and Gin Gin are best friend. Mickey looks after her depressed mother and spends her free time at the temple, trying to join the all-male martial art group. Gin Gin, more impulsive, makes money dancing in nightclubs. When Gin Gin came up with a plan to meet Jay in Guangzhou, China, Mickey decide to devote herself finding her father, who abandoned her and her mother years before. Facing sometimes comic and sometimes brutal situations, Mickey and Gin Gin strenghten their friendship and achive a mature self-awareness.

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