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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Leyna Bloom, actress of the film Port Authority.

Leyna Bloom, lead character in Port Authority, where she plays a trans dancer who falls in love with a guy who has to deal with his preconceptions for love, is a powerful personality with a clear mind. We talked about the project, her casting and the role of trans actors in a gender-aware world as the film industry.

Port Authority: On the steps outside New York City’s dizzying central bus station, Port Authority, a girl named Wye vogues with her siblings. Paul, a young drifter, watches her, transfixed by her beauty. After he seeks her out, an intense love soon blossoms. Wye introduces him to the ballroom community, an underground LGBTQ subculture, and to her house, a self-selected chosen family. But when Paul realizes Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his feelings for her and the social forces that seek to rupture their bond.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Osnat Bukofzer, head of the International Relation Rabinovich Fund.

Osnat Bukofzer talks about the activities of the Rabinovich Fund connected with the coproduction agreement with Italy, that will be implemented and reveived through separate agreements and new actions. Plus, the new development fund created with Roma Lazio Film Commission will fuel new projects between the two countries.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sarah Calderon from The Film Agency.

Sarah Calderon, from The Film Agency, tells us about the audience study they did in these past years to come to a list of typologies of audience, useful for both distributors and producers, to better target their films and optimize the work done to create and produce a movie.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sarah Calderon, head of Le Balon Rouge.

Sarah Calderon created with other two friends, both working mothers from the film industry, the first in-house nursery in a film festival ever. The project has been a success in Cannes and it is ready to be exported in all major European festivals. She tells us how the project started and how it works.

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PODCAST| Sabina Prestipino interviews Bill Emmott, founder of the  Wake Up Foundation.

“These are troubling times, when the open society is under threat, when some of the basic tenets of democracy are being challenged, when my own country, Britain, is going through a nervous breakdown, and when a coscienza Europea is needed more than ever before. That is why, just ahead of these vital European elections, our festival of reflection and engagement promises to be so important and exciting”. (Bill Emmott)

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PODCAST| Sabina Prestipino interviews Nuno Escudeiro, director of the The Law and The Valley.

Nuno Escudeiro documents the personal stories of common women and men who are struggling to keep a sense of morality and who have become engaged in reshaping their own nation’s laws by engaging in civil disobedience.

The Law and The Valley: High in the French Alps, on the border between Italy and France, migrants fleeing war, political persecution and poverty risk their lives in the hope of a better life crossing dangerous mountain routes. Witnessing the migrants’ suffering and dismay, the local population of the Roya Valley has taken action to provide them with shelter, food and legal counselling. Nonetheless, in France, the transporting or hosting of undocumented migrants is a criminal offense, and the population has soon found itself on the wrong side of the law. So far, nine people from Roya are facing criminal charges, but with the support of lawyers they discovered that the local authorities were in fact violating their own laws. So they started to provide minors and refugees with legal support and to document the numerous human rights’ violations committed by the State.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nevina Satta, director of the Sardegna Film Commission.

Nevina Satta talks with us about the meeting in Cannes on green films policy, sustainable film sets in Italy and Europe, the growing sensibility about this key issue and the steps to be done in the near future.

This interview was recorded during the Marché du Film 2019 in Cannes, in partnership with the Sardegna Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST| Sabina Prestipino interviews Annalisa Piras, artistic director of the Wake Up Europe! Festival.

Annalisa Piras is a London-based Italian journalist and film director. She is currently the Wake Up Europe! Festival’S artistic director (Turin, 16-19 May). As Piras’ latest film, Europe at Sea (2017), a feature-length documentary, that looks at Europe’s role on the global stage in light of today’s transnational security challenges and the shifting sands of geopolitics, Wake Up Europe! wants to create an “agorà”, where people can talk about issues and challenges of Europe. She was a former London correspondent for L’Espresso magazine and La7 Tv. She founded with Bill Emmott the Wake Up Foundation, an educational charity that aims to raise public awareness of the dangerous trends currently under way in Western societies.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Monia Chokri, director of the film A Brother’s Love.

She has been a veteran of Cannes Film Festival thanks to her work as an actress directed by Xavier Dolan. At the 2019 Festival de Cannes, Monia Chokri presents her debut film as a director: A Brother’s Love – La femme de mon frere. With a self-fiction inspiration in depicting a very strong relationship between the protagonist, Sophia, and her brother Karim, Monia Chokri manages to take a look at all the struggles women have to face nowadays, like stereotypes on what it means to be a successful person and woman. Since this year’s Festival de Cannes is discussing gender equality and pink quotas, as one of the female directors of the Un Certain Regard, Chokri gives her opinion on the matter.

A Brother’s Love: After failing to secure a faculty position in the Philosophy department, 35-year-old Sophia is forced to “temporarily” move in with her older brother Karim. Given their close relationship, he’s more than happy to share his place with his little sister. Their unbreakable bond will be put to the test when, for the first time in his life, Karim falls head over heels in love. Feeling abandoned, Sophia is forced to question her real purpose in life and make choices that will allow her to finally become an adult.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Laurie Anderson, director of the film Go Where You Look.

Go Where You Look is a series of three VR films made by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang, where you can fly on the moon and beyond. Laurie Anderson tells us about her insecurity about VR and the epiphany she experienced once introduced in this world by Huang, and how she adapted her artistic expression to the new media.

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