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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Espen Wallin, co-director of the documentary Self Portrait.

An interview with director Espen Wallin, who co-directed the documentary Self Portrait with Margreth Olin and Katja Høgseth, and presented the film in the International Competition of the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. The documentary is about Lene Marie Fossen, the late photo artist who also lived with anorexia from the age of ten. Wallin talks about the origins of the project and about Fossen herself, as well as the desire to highlight her work as an artist. He also talks about Fossen’s relationship with her anorexia, whether she was comfortable during the making of the movie and more.

Self Portrait: She is fascinated by human faces – but she hid her own for a long time. In an effort to stop time, Lene became enchanted by photography, but also the desire never to grow up and to have total control over her own body.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Iryna Tsilyk, director of the documentary The Earth Is Blue as an Orange.

An interview with Iryna Tsilyk, director of The Earth Is Blue As an Orange, presented in the International Competition of the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film portrays the every day life of a family in a war-torn region. Specifically, it is a film depicting a family living in Donbass, Ukrain, with the peculiar hobby of making films together. Tsilyk talks with us about meeting the family and her intentions of making a film about the war that was not depressing but rather positive, uplifting and full of warmth. She also talks about her familiarity with the region and the experience of working on her debut feature documentary – as well as the challenges that this experience posed.

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange: For one mother and her children, making a film together is a way of coming to terms with the trauma of war in Donbass, Ukraine.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Haytham Chamass, founder of Art Factory 961.

An interview with Haytham Chamass, Lebanese documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and founder of Art Factory 961. The interview was recorded at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, where he was part of the jury for the Czech Competition. On our chat, Chamass talks about the power of documentary and Art Factory 961 – a Beirut-based non-profit NGO, that focuses on advocating human rights by using arts – and its Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival, which takes place in July and regularly met with silent opposition from the Lebanese government.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andrea Culková, director of the film Grief.

An interview with filmmaker Andrea Culková, who presented her latest film Grief at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film follows a group of female environmental activists and also talks a lot about the introduction of emotions in environmental discourse. In this chat, Culková tells us more about the grief of the movie (the title translates from Czech as “The Grief of Women”), about climate change and other plagues of our planet, the film’s structure and concludes with some thoughts on the current Coronavirus outbreak.

Grief: GRIEF. The heroines of the film are seriously concerned about the future of humanity and the planet. They organise activist events within the Czech branch of the Extinction Rebellion movement, which raises awareness about the impacts of the global environmental crisis.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Riccardo Scamarcio, actor of the film If Only.

We sit down with Riccardo Scamarcio to discuss his two very differing father figure roles in films If Only and Stolen days, both presented at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London. If Only is the feature debut of film producer Ginevra Elkann and Scamarcio shared his experience of working with her on her first and very personal film alongside child actors also performing in their first film. He also spoke about the contrasting father role he played as a bona fide criminal in noir Stolen Days.

If Only:  Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, three tight-knit siblings live in Paris in the safe, albeit bizarre, bourgeois world of their Russian-Orthodox mother. One day they are suddenly packed and sent off into the arms of their absent, unconventional and completely broke Italian father Carlo, who has no idea how to look after himself, let alone his kids. Despite the daily challenges and tensions, the children can’t help but hope for the family to be reunited. “Captivating drama of a connected family that is a partly autobiographical and impressive debut from noted producer Ginevra Elkann” – Adrian Wootton, curator of Cinema Made in Italy, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Ginevra Elkann, director of the film If Only.

We sat down with producer Ginevra Elkann to discuss her feature debut If Only and how she was inspired to tell a semi-autobiographical story of coming of age. Elkann explains how she was able to elicit very naturalistic performances from a a group of child actors working on their first film alongside the excellent Riccardo Scamarcio as their haphazard father and Alba Rohrwacher as his bohemian lover, with a 90s-infused aesthetic.

If Only:  Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, three tight-knit siblings live in Paris in the safe, albeit bizarre, bourgeois world of their Russian-Orthodox mother. One day they are suddenly packed and sent off into the arms of their absent, unconventional and completely broke Italian father Carlo, who has no idea how to look after himself, let alone his kids. Despite the daily challenges and tensions, the children can’t help but hope for the family to be reunited. “Captivating drama of a connected family that is a partly autobiographical and impressive debut from noted producer Ginevra Elkann” – Adrian Wootton, curator of Cinema Made in Italy, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nanette Burstein, director of the film Hillary.

“Who does she think she is?” this is how Hulu is presenting its 4-part docu-series on Hillary Rodham Clinton presented at the Sundance Film Festival and at the 70th Berlinale. Director Nanette Burstein describes her approach on her long interview to Hillary Clinton, her first impression when she met her and how she went along working on this 4 part docu-series. Why does Hillary Rodham Clint keep being a person people either love or hate? There are no grey areas. In the interview, Nanette Burstein tries to elaborate how she started from this big question to arise a bigger one on how gender, sex and sexism affected the course of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s election and career in general.

Hillary: A remarkably intimate portrait of a public woman, ​Hillary​ interweaves revealing moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of her life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton herself, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, friends and journalists, the series examines how she became at once one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tim Wagendorp, Sustainability Coordinator of Flanders Audiovisual Fund.

Tim Wagendorp is a sustainability expert that entered the film industry when the green filming issue started to become a central one for the film and tv productions . In this interview with Angelo Acerbi he explains and specifies the procedures and the reasons behind them , enumerating the cases and the figures that make the issue of green sustainability in film productions a central one, all over the world.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International 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 Nevina Satta, director of Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission.

Nevina Satta has been one of the first person and commssioner to embrace the fight for a green sustainability in film productions. Now that the issue has become global, she talks with Angelo Acerbi about the state of the art of this crucial aspect of the film industry and in the world generally. And of course she also talks about the films in Berlinale that were helped through her film commission’s programme.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International 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 Daniela Kirchner, Chief Operating Officer of Film London.

Daniela Kirchner goes through a detailed explanation with Angelo Acerbi of the various degrees of green sustainability that Film London requires to film productions. It is really important to understand the reasons for these procedures and the future developments , already in progress. Of course it is important as well to know if Brexit would affect all these actions which are based on European collaborations and shared protocols.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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