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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Nashen Moodley, director of the Sydney Film Festival.

Australia’s premier international film festival returns this year – virtually. “Since the 66th Sydney Film Festival in 2019, everything and nothing has changed. We aren’t together in a dark cinema sharing new ideas and worlds – but film is still where we look for them. So, Sydney Film Festival is back this year with a virtual program available to all homes across Australia.” (Nashen Moodley, Director)

Nashen Moodley talks about the difficult decision he took in March when the pandemic crisis hit to cancel the festival and why he revisited that decision in May and launched the 67th virtual edition of the Sydney Film Festival. Nashen also talks about the Sydney Film Festival partnership with Australia’s most distinctive streaming service SBS On Demand to present Sydney Film Festival Selects, a collection of 40 Sydney Film Festival titles to binge for free, from 10 June to 10 July. Nashen explores why going virtual is the best way to support the filmmaking industry and film festival audiences in these disruptive times. In fact, the Festival is also part of We Are One: A Global Film Festival, a free, global, online film festival, opening 29 May for audiences everywhere. This first-ever collaboration of the world’s greatest film festivals presents selections from each of the festivals involved. The Sydney Film Festival’s contribution is two ground-breaking Australian films from First Nations directors: Mabo (Rachel Perkins), and Mystery Road (Ivan Sen).

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amandla Stenberg and André Holland, actors of Netflix tv series The Eddy.

It doesn’t follow the rules of modern TV series, The Eddy, the new work by director Damien Chazelle, that comes from the collaboration between him and Alan Poul, BAFTA Award winner Jack Thorne (National Treasure) and six-time Grammy Award® winner Glen Ballard. The Eddy was presented at the 70th Berlinale in the Series section and it stars Amandla Stenberg and André Holland. The series is set in modern day Paris in a jazz bar among jazz musicians and despite real musicians and original music, is not a musical but a drama with a touch of thriller-noir. Stenberg and Holland reveal how they worked according to the series pace that it follows Jazz rules more than Tv series’s ones.

The Eddy: Directed by Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy Award® winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laïla Marrakchi (Le Bureau des Légendes), the Netflix original series The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.

The Eddy is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from May 8th.

To discover more about the tv series, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joanna Kulig, actress of Netflix tv series The Eddy.

When people watched Cold War by Pawel Pawlikoski at the Festival de Cannes in 2018, they all said it was a polish black and white version of La La Land. Cold War‘s star, Joanna Kulig, who is also a singer, is among the protagonists of Damien Chazelle’s first series, The Eddy, where she gets to sing and so, combine her two passions, film and music. It’s a dream come true for Joanna Kulig who describes how her character is unusual in the TV series panorama and how the atmosphere on set was as perfect as she could imagine it would be. Every episode focuses on a character and episode 5 is the one dedicated to Maja, Kulig’s role.

The Eddy: Directed by Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy Award® winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laïla Marrakchi (Le Bureau des Légendes), the Netflix original series The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.

The Eddy is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from May 8th.

To discover more about the tv series, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marvin Kren, director of Netflix tv series Freud.

Marvin Kren is a director known to be a master of horror films in his country, Austria. When receiving the proposal of directing a TV series for Netflix on the most famous Austrian person who ever lived, FREUD, it was his idea to give the series a dark and twisted accent, turning it into a horror-thriller experience. Marvin Kren describes his approach to the Freudian world and reveals he went through hypnosis to better understand what it means to be faced with the darkest side of your own mind.

Freud: Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

Freud is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from March 23rd.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ella Rumpf and Robert Finster, director of Netflix tv series Freud.

Robert Finster and Ella Rumpf are the protagonists of Freud, the new Netflix series on famous doctor Sigmund Freud, which has been presented at the 70th Berlinale in the Berlinale series section. The actors describe their facing all the history and stereotypes behind Doctor Freud’s figure and comment on their characters’ first encounter as the moment in which the series take its dark turn.

Freud: In 1886 Vienna, the revolutionary theories of young Sigmund Freud (Robert Finster) face heavy opposition – and gain the interest of famous psychic medium Fleur Salomé (Ella Rumpf) and Alfred Kiss (Georg Friedrich), war veteran and police officer. With them at his side, Freud soon finds himself in the midst of a murderous conspiracy that kept Austria in suspense.

To find out more, listen to this interview and watch Freud on Netflix from march 23rd.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Benjamin Hessler and Stefan Brunner, creators of Netflix tv series Freud.

At the 70th Berlinale, in the Series section, we meet the creators of Freud, the Netflix series about Austria’s most popular figure: Doctor Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Benjamin Hessler and Stefan Brunner reveal the genesis of the project and then proceed to explain the difficulties of writing something new and creative out of a figure who has almost a whole vocabulary after his name. How much freedom can a writer have when creating a series about a person we all technically know?

Freud: Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

To find out more, listen to this interview and watch Freud on Netflix from march 23rd.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews the editor Niki Mossböck.

Austrian film editor Niki Mossböck was one of the experts present at the 2020 East Doc Platform in Prague, Czech Republic. As part of her activities at EDP as a mentor, she delivered a discussion on the importance of the initial moments of a film, supported by examples, which she talks about here. In this interview, she also talks about her other activities at EDP collaborating with the participants of its Ex Oriente program, plus shares with us her personal definition of the art of film editing.

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amy Shepherd, Global Impact Director at Think-Film Impact Production and juror for the International Competition.

An interview with Amy Shepherd, Global Impact Director at Think-Film Impact Production. The interview was recorded at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. Shepherd talks to us about Think-Film, some of the works that it does and examples of recent films that it has worked on. Besides this, she also shared with us her thoughts on her experience at One World and points out some of the ways in which Coronavirus will pose challenges to the sector.

THINK-FILM IMPACT PRODUCTION (TFIP) is a European-based film impact consultancy that harnesses the power of visual storytelling to drive forward political and social change.

To discover more about the Think-Film Impact Production, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jerry Rothwell, director of the documentary The Reason I Jump.

An interview with director Jerry Rothwell, who presented his latest documentary, The Reason I Jump, in the international competition in 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film translates a book of the same name that had been written by Japanese author Naoki Higashida as a child, and illustrates his life and experience of living with autism. In this interview, Rothwell talks about the challenge of translating this book into the film and how meeting the author influenced his work. He also talks about the important sensory dimension of the film, his knowledge on the subject matter before he began working on the project and more.

The Reason I Jump: How do children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders experience the world? An illustrative example is provided in a book by Japanese author Naoki Higashida, whose reflections on his own experience with autism led to the making of a film of the same name.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jan Grarup, director of the documentary Photographer of War.

An interview with acclaimed Danish war photographer Jan Grarup from the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. Grarup attended the festival to present an exhibition of a selection of his own photos as well as the documentary, Photographer of War, which he is the protagonist of and was directed by Boris Benjamin Bertram. In this interview, Grarup talks about how he became a war photographer, the importance of discourse around the films he shoots and whether he ever feels in danger. He also talks about opening up so much of his intimate life on Photographer of War, how difficult it was, and more.

Photographer of War: An intimate portrait of a man who has been photographing war for 25 years but suddenly faces an entirely new challenge. Life has opened a different battleground for him.

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