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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Erin Richards actress of the TV serie Gotham.

Erin Richards is one of the main guests of the 2nd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival where she presents episode 7 of Gotham‘s Season 5. The actress who plays Barbara Kean in the TV series based on the DC comic books, has already directed some episodes of the series and is now embarking on a new project, her directorial debut on a film that takes inspiration from horror films such as The Babadook. Erin Richards explains her choice of debuting with a genre film as sometimes fantasy and genre are strong devices to talk about the present, even strongest than more “neo-realistic” films. As she started working in TV when Netflix, Amazon and other platforms were still not as huge as they are today, the actress and director comments on the positive and negative sides of the infinite possibilities that streaming and TV series can offer.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actress Patricia Arquette at Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

At the Filming Italy Sardegna Award Oscar winner Patricia Arquette has been awarded with the Filming Italy TV Award. She recently took part on the Hulu miniseries The Act based on a true story of an abusive mother: Gypsy Blanchard (Joey King), a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette). Her quest for independence opens a Pandora’s box of secrets, one that ultimately leads to murder. Patricia Arquette is not only on TV but also about to be the voice of a new character in the upcoming Disney’s Toy Story 4. She comments on what makes Toy Story so special for people and grown ups around the world. Patricia Arquette was also among the first artists who started the whole conversation on gender equality and equal pay in the cinema industry and in very other working field, as she made it the topic of her 2015 Oscar’s acceptance speech. After the #MeToo movement, the actress comments on the results and the improvements for women in cinema.

To watch the trailer of The Act, click here.

To learn more about The Act – miniserie, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actress Eva Longoria at Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

I don’t know how she does it was the title of a 2000’s film with Sarah Jessica Parker playing a multitasking woman and mom. Eva Longoria reminds us so much of that character and she is proving, with her constant activity as activist, caring mom, producer, actress and director, that women can really do it all and do it well. At the 2nd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival in Italy where she’s receiving the Humanitarian Award, the latina actress discusses the Time’s Up movement that she co-founded in Hollywood and the gender gap that needs to be challenged more and more every day as there’s still a long way to go till reaching gender equality. Eva Longoria is about to start shooting her directorial debut, 24/7 and she’s also focusing on her activity as producer. “Women are natural producers” she declares.

In August, she will be in cinemas with Dora and the Lost City of Gold, the live action of Dora the Explorer, where Eva Longoria plays Dora’s mum, Elena. The actress and producer reveals that through this experience she found out that Dora is not only an hispanic icon but she is known and loved internationally.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Drago Sholev, director of the film The Pig.

Drago Sholev sits down with us and talks about his latest feature, The Pig, here in Lecce competing for the Golden Olive Tree award. The Pig is a simple yet powerful film that keeps – and holds down – the audience inside the psychological and physical struggles of being bullied, just because of any slight difference to conformity.

The Pig: Pig is a quite overweight boy of 13, who suffers every day the bully of his classmates. One day he becomes a victim of another mockery attack by a new boy, Martin, and, in his attempt to get free from the scuffle, Pig instinctively fights back with just one, but probably lethal strike…

To learn more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews the costume designer Oana Paunescu.

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Oana Paunescu is the most prolific and celebrated Romanian costume designer in cinema, and this year, the Transilvania International Film Festival decided to honor her with a Lifetime Achievement Award. We met her in Cluj to talk about her earliest memories of cinema, and some of the landmark moments of her career up to now. She reveals to us that she never really imagined herself having a career in cinema, but that cinema work suited her for a number of different reasons. Paunescu also talks with us about other things, such as the influence of dreams on her work, and what it was like to work on What Happened to Monday. Tommy Wirkola’s film, one of the most recent films that Paunescu has worked on, was in fact screened at the festival on the occasion of her award.

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PODCAST | Marta Balaga interviews Corneliu Porumboiu, director of the film The Whistlers.

Acclaimed Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu kicks off with Iggy Pop’s The Passenger and ends up in the Canary Islands, where his latest feature takes place.

The Whistlers: In The Whistlers, Corneliu Porumboiu focuses on shady police officer from Bucharest trying to free an even shadier businessman from prison with the help of a stunning woman and secret whistling language. A rather unconventional method of communication known as El Silbo Gomero.

To learn more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nicolas Winding Refn, Miles Teller, director and actor of the film Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell.

Nicolas Winding Refn is back at the Festival De Cannes, at the 72nd edition to present, out of competition, his new and first series, distributed by Amazon: Too old to die young – North of Hollywood, West of hell. Accompanied by his protagonist Miles Teller who plays Martin, a dark and ambiguous cop, Refn makes a distinction between TV and streaming by declaring that the former is dead while the streaming offers infinite possibilities in terms of creativity and its rules as a director has no limits ( besides money) when it comes to length, style, running time of each episode and plot. To play with this “infinite” theory, Refn has chosen to show Cannes’ audience the 4th and 5th episode to stimulate everybody’s imagination and obviously mess with people’s minds. Miles Teller reveals the reasons why he chose to work with Nick Refn and describes how he learned to follow Refn’s stream of consciousness as the script of every episode was being written while shooting.

Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell: Groundbreaking filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn expands his boundary-pushing approach to storytelling with the 10-part limited series Too Old to Die Young. As the lives of a young police officer and the heir to a Mexican drug cartel collide, their parallel journeys through the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles guarantee a catastrophic confrontation. Martin (Miles Teller), a cop on a career fast-track, and Jesus (Augusto Aguilera), a budding drug kingpin, are both operating on the seedier side of the San Fernando Valley when a violent act of revenge ties their fates together inextricably. Under the tutelage of ex-FBI agent turned vigilante Viggo (John Hawkes), Martin attempts to atone for his role in the death of a fellow officer by assassinating the most depraved criminals he can find, while Jesus steps up to lead the Los Angeles branch of his family’s crime empire, as inevitable tragedy envelops them both. By the series midpoint, the stage is set for Martin’s rebirth, transforming him from crooked cop into unrelenting hunter, stalking the city and beyond for loathsome predators. Starting with a pair of degenerate siblings whose stock-in-trade is violent, degrading pornography, Martin exacts his own brand of justice on a world that will soon demand vengeance of its own. In Refn’s stylized world, infused with poetic mayhem, Martin and Jesus cross paths with a hedge-fund billionaire, a precocious 17-year-old girl, a victim’s rights advocate turned avenging angel and the self-proclaimed high priestess of death, as they unknowingly hurtle toward disaster. Brilliant colors, pulsating music and unadulterated violence alternate with eerie silence and deceptive stillness as Refn deftly navigates operatic plot twists on the way to an explosive conclusion.

If you want to learn more about the serie, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the producer Effie Brown.

Effie Brown talks with FRED about her career, her call to be a producer and the bumpy road to get where she is. The secret is finding a good story and being true to yourself and to your ideas. A refreshing and honest chat about the importance that films have in culture and in society. And some good lines, too .

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Gary Lucas, guitarist and composer of the film The Goddess.

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Guitar virtuoso Gary Lucas performed his original score for the Chinese 1934 silent masterpiece, The Goddess, directed by Wu Yonggang in 1934 in the midst of the period known as the Golden Age of Chinese Cinematography, at the 2019 Transilvania International Film Festival. In our conversation with Lucas, he tells us about how he got to composing and performing music for silent films, and all the influences of his score for The Goddess, including that of the underrated genre of ’30s Shanghai Pop, with a fascinating history that he fills us in on.

The Goddess: The Goddess is a celebrated 1934 silent classic directed by Wu Yonggang, now seen as a major title of the golden age of Chinese cinema. The protagonist, played by Ruan Lingyu, is a mother forced into prostitution in order to support her son’s education – a daring subject for the time. In composing the live score for the film, Lucas drew on his vast knowledge of 1930s Shanghai pop, thus re-creating the atmosphere of the era while rendering the emotional charge of the story.

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