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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jan Komasa, director of the film Corpus Christi. 

Director Jan Komasa talks about his film, Corpus Christi, presented in the Giornate degli Autori strand of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. The director talks to us about the themes of religion and coming-of-age that are featured in the film. He tells us a little about the Bartosz Bielenia, the lead actor of the film, as the juvie-rebel-turned preacher by chance.

Corpus Christi is the story of 20-year-old Daniel, who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Grear Patterson and Olmo Schnabel, director and producer of the film Giants Being Lonely. 

Director Grear Patterson and producer Otto Schnabel presented their film, Giants Being Lonely in the Orizzonti section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. The film talks about the drama of adolescence at a specific point of their lives; the moment before prom. In this interview, they share their thought about the sense of timelessness of the movie, the cast and the specifically American vibes of the film.

Giants Being Lonely: In semi-rural Hillsborough, North Carolina, high school seniors Adam, Bobby, and Caroline navigate their final year through the ups and downs of sex, loneliness, murder, and baseball. A tale told by the one who survived.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, directors of the film Woman.

Directors Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand talk about their latest work together Woman, having its official premiere here in Venezia 76. Based on first-person encounters, the project deals with topics such as motherhood, education, marriage or financial independence but also menstruations or sexuality. The public discovers the voices of women as you have never heard them before.

Woman is a worldwide project giving a voice to 2000 women across 50 different countries. Despite its very large scale, the film offers an intimate portrait of those who constitute half of the humanity. It is an opportunity to shed light on the injustices women are subjected to all over the world, but what the film would like to underline most is the inner strength of women and their capacity to change the world despite all the difficulties they are facing.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Olivier Assayas, director of the film Wasp Network. 

Olivier Assayas talks to FRED about how he convinced the Cuban government to allow the shooting in the island and how he worked with the actors in order to get a regular Cuban accent from them.

Wasp Network is the story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder. Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez, as leading actors, play a couple separated by exile, although a very different motive is revealed throughout the film.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jared P. Scott, director of the film The Great Green Wall. 

Amy Rose and May Abdalla conceived, created and produced The Collider. This immersive VR experience is intense and deep, makes you think and analyse yourself profoundly and it is also a magical and sensorial experience. Amy and May tell us more about it.

The Great Green Wall: The Collider is an immersive virtual and theatrical experience exploring power and dependency. The viewer is invited to enter a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. It operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of atoms, it hurls people against each other. Its mission: to identify and understand the invisible material that passes between people—the corrosive, delightful, and mysterious matter that keeps us together and pulls us apart. The experience guides the viewer along a journey, creating a moving choreography that becomes its own private spectacle within the heart of the machine.

To learn more about The Great Green Wall, click here and here the festival page.

Here Twitter and Facebook pages of the film. Here Jared P. Scott Twitter profile.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Amy Rose and May Abdalla, directors of the VR experience The Collider. 

Amy Rose and May Abdalla conceived, created and produced The Collider. This immersive VR experience is intense and deep, makes you think and analyse yourself profoundly and it is also a magical and sensorial experience. Amy and May tell us more about it.

The Collider: The Collider is an immersive virtual and theatrical experience exploring power and dependency. The viewer is invited to enter a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. It operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of atoms, it hurls people against each other. Its mission: to identify and understand the invisible material that passes between people—the corrosive, delightful, and mysterious matter that keeps us together and pulls us apart. The experience guides the viewer along a journey, creating a moving choreography that becomes its own private spectacle within the heart of the machine.

To learn more about the film The Collider, click here.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Chiara Nicoletti and Matt Micucci.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti come to you with the final daily report from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Aside from talking about this year’s closing film, Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy (starring, among others, legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger), Matt and Chiara discuss some of the minor prizes already announced and predict winners ahead of the award ceremony.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amjad Abu Alala, director of the filmYou Will Die at 20. 

Director Amjad Abu Alala talks to us about his latest feature film, You Will Die at 20, presented in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, which FRED Film Radio is media partner of. Abu Alala grew up in Dubai but went back for a lengthy production process in Sudan to make this movie, and he explains why in this interview. He also talks about some of the significance of You Will Die at 20, as well as its tone of hopefulness and whether he things about death, one of the central themes implied in the title, often.

You Will Die at 20: Sudan, province of Aljazira, the present. Shortly after Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the holy man of the village predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil’s father cannot stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yonfan, director of the film No. 7 Cherry Lane. 

Yonfan presented his latest film, No. 7 Cherry Lane, in the main competition of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. This film also feels historic because it is the first Hong Kong production to compete for the main prize at the Venice festival in nearly a decade, the first film directed by Yonfan in about a decade and his first work of animation – though he likes to define it a “motion picture,” and he tells us why here. Also in this interview, the director talks about the sexuality expressed in this movie and what it is that makes it a love letter to Hong Kong and cinema.

No. 7 Cherry Lane: During the rise of the materialistic comfort of life in the 1960s, there emerges an undercurrent of danger in Hong Kong. Ji yuan tai qi hao tells the tale of Ziming, a Hong Kong University undergraduate, entangled between his amorous feelings for Mrs Yu, a self-exiled mother from Taiwan in the White Terror period, and her beautiful daughter Meiling. He takes them to different movies and through a series of magical moments on the big screen, forbidden passions are revealed. The era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

Here the film website.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Karim Aïnouz, director and president of the jury for Giornate degli Autori.

Karin Aïnouz has been the president of the jury for Giornate Degli Autori. We talk about the film that won, of course, but mostly we discuss his way of making films, his aesthetic signature and what it is needed to make a good book adaptation.

For more information about Giornate degli Autori, click here.

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