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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor Matt Dillon, Honorary President of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

At the 3rd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival Matt Dillon is not only the most important guest but just accepted to be honorary President of the young Festival in Italy directed by Tiziana Rocca. As he’s also receiving a career award, when looking back at his career and filmography, the actor and director talks about possible regrets. As he mentioned before, he thinks comedy is truth and tells the truth about life. The actor has just finished post producing his second film as director, a documentary about cuban scat jazz musician Franscico Fellove called The Great Fellove. The film will be presented at the next San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor Toby Jones.

His career has been rich and full of different experiences, from theatre to TV, from arthouse cinema to blockbuster movies. He’s well known for his challenging roles in Truman Capote as well as the villain in Hunger Games or Captain America’s The winter soldier. Toby Jones is at the 3rd edition at the Filming Italy Sardegna festival to receive the Festival’s achievement award for this stunning work in cinema. He describes his experience working with Matteo Garrone in Tale of Tales and sends him a message. What does it mean to receive an award? A starting point to do even more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mihai Chirilov, artistic director of Transilvania International Film Festival.

A conversation with Mihai Chirilov, artistic director of the Transilvania International Film Festival of Cluj, Romania. In this podcast, we talk about the festival’s history and its significant contribution to the growth in stature of Romanian cinema over the past decades. Chirilov also talks about the ways in which it has responded to the pandemic and in what form it will be taking place from July 31 to August 9 this year. He also shares some of the highlights of this year’s program, including several premieres, and a spectacular retrospective on the works of Italian maestro Federico Fellini.

This interview was featured on our weekly show, Big FRED Tuesday.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Vjosa Berish, co-founder and director of Prishtina International Film Festival.

A conversation with Vjosa Berisha, co-founder and director of the Prishtina International Film Festival in Kosovo. In this interview, we talk about the history of the festival and its significant role in the growth of the film industry and film culture in the country, as well as how it serves as a cultural bridge between Kosovo and the rest of the world. In addition, we talk about how the festival has responded to the pandemic, including their decision to run PriForum online and plan a postponed physical edition of the festival for later this year.

This interview was featured on our weekly show, Big FRED Tuesday.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Philip Doherty, director of the film Redemption of a Rogue.

A conversation with Philip Doherty, whose feature directorial debut, Redemption of a Rogue, took home the Best Irish Film and Best Irish First Featyre awards at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh. In this podcast, Doherty talks about his background in theatre and what prompted him to make a film. He also talks about the origins of the story of Redemption of a Rogue, its biblical references and prominent use of a sense of humour.

Redemption of a Rogue:  Jimmy is a nihilist who carries around a black leather doctor’s bag containing the rope he plans to hang himself with. Filled with guilt and shame, he returns to his hometown in the cold austere beauty of West Cavan. As soon as Jimmy visits, his ailing father breathes his last. Thunder rumbles and rain starts to pour. But there is a condition in the will… his father cannot be buried on a wet day. Days roll into weeks in an endless rainy purgatory, with some colourful local characters, as Jimmy seeks redemption.

This interview was featured on our weekly show, Big FRED Tuesday.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ludovica Fales, filmmaker and researcher, about Open Visions.

A conversation with filmmaker/researcher Ludovica Fales on her three-lesson long online course on experimental cinema and interactive projects. The course is titled Open Visions and it is presented by the Cineteca di Milano on their streaming platform in collaboration with Red Shoes Associazione Culturale. The course covers the history of this type of visual storytelling from the early days of moving images to modern times. In addition to the course, Fales also talks about her work with the London-rooted filmmaking collective named Kitchen Sink Collective.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Boyd van Hoeij, artistic adviser of the Luxembourg City Film Festival.

A conversation with Boyd van Hoeij, who wears many hats within the film industry, including that of artistic adviser of the Luxembourg City Film Festival, whic recently launched a series of monthly physical screenings titled LuxFilmLab. In this interview, we talk about the festival, some of its history and its most recent edition, which celebrated the annual event’s 10th anniversary, though it had to be cut short in response to the coronaviru outbreak back in March. We also van Hoeij to share his thoughts about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the film industry in this historical moment and whether the impact will be felt for quite some time.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Anthony Andrews, co-founder and creative director of We Are Parable.

A conversation with Anthony Andrews, co-founder and artistic director of We Are Parable, the London-based award-winning film exhibition company. We Are Parable is currently collaborating with the BFI on a week-long series of films and online events celebrating Black British cinema. The takeover program is taking place across various BFI channels and is titled Who We Are. In this conversation, Andrews talks about that as well as the history of We Are Parable and its aim, including some of its highligh events, such as the Spike is 60 Film Festival, which celebrated the legacy of the great American filmmaker Spike Lee.

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