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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews producer and transmedia expert Frédéric Dubois.

An interview with Frédéric Dubois, producer and transmedia expert, and one of the mentors and experts of the 2019 East Doc Platform in Prague, Czech Republic. As an expert, we ask Dubois to help us decipher the meaning behind the terms interactive documentary and transmedia. Another term that he helps us reflect upon is “impact,” a word that is thrown around a lot in the industry but can mean many things to different people. In this interview, Dubois also takes the time to talk about a new project of his that he is currently post-producing – Field Trip, an open source doc about the Tempelhof Field in Berlin.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews producer Torstein Parelius.

An interview with Norwegian producer Torstein Parelius, one of the mentors at the Ex-Oriente workshops and an expert at the 2019 East Doc Platform in Prague, Czech Republic. Among the topics discussed on this interview is one that is rarely talked about: in an age of excess, how do you present a film that apparently deals with a topic that has been explored by other films as an original story? Parelius gives an example from projects that he has worked on himself, before a discussion, as an example, of the theme of migration in documentary filmmaking as such a theme, one that is important but risks being overlooked by the mass audience as a result of excess. Besides this, Parelius also talks about his role as a mentor of the Ex Oriente workshops and what his role as an outreach producer entails.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Reinhold Bidner and Karl Zechenter, artists and members of the Austrian artistic group Gold Extra.

An interview with Reinhold Bidner and Karl Zechenter, artists and members of the Austrian artistic group Gold Extra, who were among the experts and mentors at the 2019 East Doc Platform in Prague, Czech Republic. Gold Extra produces artworks in and in-between fine arts, performance, music and hybrid media. In this interview, Bidner and Zechenter talk about the possibilities of the medium of digital games and virtual reality, introducing Gold Extra’s approach to documentary games and non-fiction storytelling by using the example of some of their works.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews director Steven Simpson.

Steven Simpson talked at the Sofia Meetings about his case of self distributing world wide his last film, avoiding general distribution and the classic mechanisms that most of the times are non profitable for small films and independent producers. A hard and intense ride that made him completely rethink and bend the distribution options that the market offer.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies.

Debra Zimmerman entered the organization Women Make Movies as an intern in the late 70’s. Her work there has been intense, fundamental and life changing both for her and for the women directors who, through the organization, managed to have their film made and distributed in the world. In our chat, we face the issues of a male dominated world such as the one of movie business and the big steps done so far, and of course the biggest yet to be done. Because the guard has to be always high…

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Tonislav Hristov, director of the film The Magic Life of V.

Tonislav Hristov won the Best Documentary Award at the Sofia International Film Festival. We talk with him about his winning film The Magic Life Of V, and also about his previous works especially The Good Postman, who was an international hit, which Tonislav have some interesting news about, to reveal.

The Magic Life of V: While trying to become more independent and to help her mentally disabled brother through live-role-playing, a young woman haunted by her childhood traumas learns how to face her own past.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews producer Nik Powell.

Nik Powell was friend and business partner of Virgin Records, then founder with Stephen Woolley of Palace Productions (for films such as In Company of Wolves, Mona Lisa, The Crying Game), then CEO of Scala Productions, head of the National Film and Television School in London. He shares with us a little of his past successes and some pieces of experience.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Mira Staleva, director of the 2019 Sofia Meetings.

Mira Staleva is the director of Sofia Meetings, the most important co-production market of Eastern Europe. We talk with her about the mission of the Meetings, the next potential developments and the philosophy behind it.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Kamen Balkanski from Media Desk Bulgaria.

Kamen Balkanski, from Media Desk Bulgaria, talks with FRED about the importance of this market and the participation of his office to it. We talk also about the importance of the Media Program especially in the eastern regions, its recent issues and the potential upgrades.

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PODCAST| Francesca Raffi interviews Joel Snyder, President of Audio Description Associates and Director of the Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind.

Dr Joel Snyder talks about his professional experience as audio describer, audio description trainer, President of Audio Description Associates and Director of the Audio Description Project of the American Council of the Blind. Then, he tells us more about his book entitled The visual made verbal, A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description, which offers an overview of the field, including its history, application to a range of genres, description of training techniques and much more. The book confirms that high-quality AD but, accessibility in general, crosses many domains and in his book, Dr Joel Snyder described the four Fundamentals of Audio Description that he had established: Observation, Editing, Language, and Vocal Skills. At ARSAD 2019, Dr Joel Snyder will present, together with his wife, Esther Geiger (LIMS Maryland Modular Certification Program, WACMA, USA), Audio description: Listening to Movement.

Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates, American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project, USA) & Esther Geiger (LIMS Maryland Modular Certification Program, WACMA, USA) “Audio description: Listening to movement”: in his introduction to the second edition of The Mastery of Movement, Rudolph Laban wrote: “What really happens in the theatre does not occur only on the stage or in the audience, but within the magnetic current between both these poles.” He suggests that the performers on stage form the “active pole of this magnetic circuit [and] are responsible for the integrity of purpose” in the performance that determines the quality of the “exciting current between stage and audience.” Laban’s focus here is on the skill of the performer in communicating with the audience. It is assumed that the audience is able to fully perceive that skill and experience that communication. But what if the exchange is interrupted, not by lack of clarity on stage, but rather by an audience member’s lack of access to that full perception. How, for example, can a blind person “see” a dance performance? This paper/presentation will discuss how audio description, enhanced by Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) fundamentals, provides access to the arts for people who are blind or have low vision. Describers observe, select, and then succinctly and vividly use language to convey the visual image that is not fully accessible to a segment of the population—new estimates by the American Foundation for the Blind now put that number at over 21 million Americans alone who are blind or have difficulty seeing even with correction. In the United States, the principal constituency for audio description has an unemployment rate of about 70%. With greater access to our culture and its resources, people become more informed, more engaged with society and more engaging individuals—more employable.

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