FRED Film Radio - English Channel

PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Katharine Gun and Martin Bright, real protagonists of the film Official Secrets.

They talk to FRED about the real disclosure of secret materials in 2003 that led to a media investigation on the Iraqui War. Katharine Gun worked for the British Government and Martin Bright was leading investigator for The Observer newspaper. Their roles are played by Keira Knightley and Matt Smith.

Official Secrets: Winter, 2003. As politicians in Britain and the US angle to invade Iraq, British Government Communications Headquarters translator Katharine Gun leaks a classified e-mail that urges spying on members of the UN Security Council to force through the resolution to go to war. Charged with breaking the Official Secrets Act, and facing imprisonment, Katharine and her lawyers set out to defend her actions. With her life, liberty and marriage threatened, she must stand up for what she believes in. Featuring brilliant performances by Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith, director Gavin Hood recounts the far-reaching consequences of an illegal dissemination of truth. The film is based on the true story of whistle-blower Katherine Gun.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ben Asamoah, director of the film Sakawa.

Ben Asamoah tells FRED Film Radio about the incredible story behind his film Sakawa, a powerful documentary that shows the reality behind Ghanaian internet scams and yet goes well beyond these preconditions by telling a story of people trying to have a respectable life for themselves and their dear ones, while linking the other side of the world that may be wealthy but is deprived of love and compassion.

Sakawa: Their workplace is a shabby living room. Western electronic waste found at dumping sites in Ghana as well as the naivety of desperate singles in Europe and America are their resources. For these young Internet fraudsters portrayed in Sakawa, it is easy to access data and images left on negligently disposed smartphones and hard disks. They use fake profiles to search for “clients” and, with a few seductive tricks and a little bit of voodoo magic they tease money from their pockets – nonetheless they remain unwealthy. Belgian-Ghanaian director Ben Asamoah offers access to a world otherwise hidden behind the subject lines of countless unopened spam emails. Without judgment, Asamoah follows the unusual and questionable work routine of young Ghanaians who have nothing to lose. An amusing yet deeply sobering insight into the absurdity of global injustice.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Sarah Gavron and Theresa Ikoko, director and writer of the film Rocks.

Gavron and Ikoko talk to FRED about their collaboration to depict a generation that is not being seen and heard. Both of them describe the daily work with the young actresses in the film.

Rocks: Rocks (15) is a teenage girl with big dreams for the future, loyal fun friends and an adoring, though mischievous, little brother, Emmanuel (7). Rocks enjoys school (as much as any teenager does) and lives a full vibrant life in East London with her team of London-centric best mates. Rocks’ world is turned upside down when she returns from school to find her mum gone, leaving some cash and a note offering little explanation except that she is sorry.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Tim Roth, actor of the film The Song of Names.

Roth talks about his personal and familiar experience with the Holocaust. He refers to his long collaboration with Quentin Tarantino and explains why he was cut out from Once upon a time in Hollywood.

The Song of Names: Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in an emotional detective story spread over two continents and a half century. Beneath the film’s stunning and pulsing musical revelations burn the horror of a war and the lost souls extinguished from history. Clearly made by folks who are passionate about classical music, The Song of Names adapts music critic Norman Lebrecht’s acclaimed novel of the same name for the big screen, producing — in the hands of director Francois Girard (The Red Violin, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould) and composer Howard Shore, among others — a Holocaust-themed requiem.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews François Girard, director of the film The Song of Names.

The director explains why he decided to adapt the novel, his work with Tim Roth and how technology pushes us apart from memory. The film The Song of Name, he confirms, talks about the power of memory.

The Song of Names: Tim Roth and Clive Owen star in an emotional detective story spread over two continents and a half century. Beneath the film’s stunning and pulsing musical revelations burn the horror of a war and the lost souls extinguished from history. Clearly made by folks who are passionate about classical music, The Song of Names adapts music critic Norman Lebrecht’s acclaimed novel of the same name for the big screen, producing — in the hands of director Francois Girard (The Red Violin, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould) and composer Howard Shore, among others — a Holocaust-themed requiem.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Neil Jordan, President of the Jury at 67. edition of San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Jordan leads the jury for the official selection in 67th San Sebastian Film Festival.

Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, ‘Night in Tunisia’, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy Award (Best Original Screenplay) for ‘The Crying Game’ (1992). He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for ‘The Butcher Boy’ (1997).

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Laetitia Casta, actress of the film Beyond The Horizon.

Laetitia Casta talks about the situation of women and tells us how she has confronted the issue since her early beginning in filmmaking. The actress also comments on the climate change crisis we’re living and tells us about her next projects.

Beyond The Horizon: Summer 76′, there’s a heatwave and the Swiss countryside is drying out at top speed. In this stifling environment, Gus who is thirteen years old and son of a farmer, sees both his family environment and his innocence relentlessly breaking. He’s living the end of a world. Second feature film by its director.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Ken Loach, director of the film Sorry We Missed You.

Mr. Loach comments on the political landscape in the UK, Europe and Spain, and also reflect about the adjective ‘political’ that very often is given to him and his movies.

Sorry We Missed You: A story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat in a world of zero-hour contracts and gig work.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Delphine Lehericey, director of the film Beyond The Horizon.

The director tells FRED how her life as a woman is very similar to the transition depicted in the movie. The conversation revolves around the situation of women and how she built the project of the film. Also about the casting of Laetitia Casta.

Beyond The Horizon: Summer 76′, there’s a heatwave and the Swiss countryside is drying out at top speed. In this stifling environment, Gus who is thirteen years old and son of a farmer, sees both his family environment and his innocence relentlessly breaking. He’s living the end of a world. Second feature film by its director.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Raffey Cassidy, actress of the film The Other Lamb.

Cassidy describe her relationship to Polish female director Malgorzata Szumowska and how tough was it to shoot The Other Lamb under the rain. She refers to the situation of women regarding the plot of the film

The Other Lamb: The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as Shepherd. Selah, a daughter who is on the cusp of teenage-hood, is given the great honor of participating in the sacred ritual of the birthing of the lambs – upon which they depend for survival – where she has a shocking and otherworldly experience. She begins to have strange visions that make her question her own reality, and everything the Shepherd has taught her and her sisters.

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