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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sean Baker, director of the film The Florida Project.

After the success at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival of his last film Tangerine, shot entirely with an iphone, for his new film The Florida Project Sean Baker tells FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti about the decision of shooting in 35mm. The film was presented in the Quinzaine des Realizateurs at the Festival de Cannes and revolves around the life of a very young single mother (Bria Vinaite) and her 8 years old daughter living in motel in the neglected areas close to Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida. On FRED Baker reveals why he decided to use the children’s point of view in the story and why he focused on a single mother instead of a different kind of family.

The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around

For the film page on the festival website, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bria Vinaite, actress of the film The Florida Project.

Bria Vinaite is the main actress in The Florida Project by Sean Baker, the only remarkable adult actor in the film beside Willem Defoe who’s always impeccable. The actress was born in Lithuania and moved to Brooklyn when she was 6 years old. She started as a clothes designer with her company ‘ChroniCal NYC’. On FRED she reveals that Sean Baker found her on Instagram and contacted her through the social network to get her to audition for the role of Halley.

The Florida Project tells the story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around

For the film page on the festival website, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Siddharth Dhananjay, actor of the film Patti Cake$.

Sid plays Jherico in the funny and moving Closing Film of the Directors Forthnight Patti Cake$. he is a natural in this and he lended the perfect first role in his carreer. Let’s hear from his voice how all of this happened and how he is managing this impromptu new life.

Patti Cake$ introduces Australian native Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role, as aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where her life is falling apart, Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother and only friends, Jheri and Basterd, Patti also shoulders her mother’s heartaches and misfortunes.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Takuya Kimura, Hana Sugisaki, actors of the film Blade of the Immortal.

Japanese star Takuya Kimura and actress Hana Sugisaki talk about their experience on set with Takashi Miike for Blade of the Immortal, screening at the 70th Festival de Cannes out of competition. They both describe working with Miike as a big honor and tell their first impression of the Festival de Cannes’ atmosphere and red carpet.

Blade of the Immortal: Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine… The 100th film by Japanese master director Takashi Miike!

For the official website of the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amos Gitai, director of the film West of the Jordan River.

Amos Gitai presents West of the Jordan River at the Quinzaine Des realizateurs at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The filmmakers returns to shoot in the West End 35 years after he made Field Diary. On FRED Gitai describes the reason why he decided to go back to those places, what he was expecting to find and how he structured the documentary. What’s the role of filmmakers in politics? Gitai talks about the importance of individual action in every attempt of changing the course of political events.

West of the Jordan River: Amos Gitai (Rabin, Free Zone) returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. West of the Jordan River describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

For the official website of the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jerome Paillard, director of the Cannes Film Market.

Jerome Paillard, the historical director of the Cannes Film Market, talks with us about numbers and achievements of this year’s edition, with an eye to the new needs of the film industry and the potential new developments ( Netflix and vod platform in general included) that the market will have to face in the future.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sharunas Bartas, director of the film Frost.

The trip of a young couple with a humanitarian help van from Lithuania to Ukraine turns out to be more intense and dangerous than imagined.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michel Franco, director of the film Las hijas de Abril.

After getting inspired by real facts he experienced in his own life, with April’s Daughter – Las Hijas de Abril, Mexican director Michel Franco decided to analyze motherhood and what it means to become a mother, especially at a young age as his protagonist in the film. After Chronic which was in competition, Franco is back in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. The film counts on the participation, in the role of April, of spanish actress Emma Suarez, who was Pedro Almodovar’s main actress in Julieta, at the Festival de Cannes last year.

Las hijas de Abril: Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half-sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to help her daughters, but soon it will be clear why Valeria had kept her away.

For the official page of the film on the festival website, click here.

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews György Kristóf, director of the film Out.

Slovaquian director György Kristóf, who has previously collaborated with such directors as Kevin Macdonald, Mark Herman, and the latest Berlin Golden Bear winner, Ildikó Enyedi, explains why he chose, in this debut film, to follow a character who belongs to the generation of his parents. He describes Agoston’s journey further and further ‘out” as a journey of self-discovery but also of personal enjoyment, and unveils a few sources of inspiration for the many odd but endearing characters Agoston meets, as well as for the magnificent cinematography (esp. in the industrial scenes), and the recurrent rabbit motif in this absurd, very entertaining existential tale, fruit of a rather challenging multilingual Eastern European shoot.

Out: after Agoston, a Slovaquian naval plant worker in his 5Os, is amongst the unlucky ones in a wave of redundancies, he sets off on his first trip abroad, to Latvia and the Baltic Sea, to try and find work, and himself. On this journey, he meets a series of absurd, colourful characters. With this debut feature combining poetic humour and a truly superb cinematography, György Kristóf is amongst the contenders for the prestigious Caméra d’or.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Eugene Jarecki, director of Promised Land.

As a special event, the 70th Cannes Film Festival presents Promised Land, a documentary by Eugene Jarecki . On FRED the director describes the genesis of the film and its being more about American history narrated through the representative of the American dream: Elvis Presley. A nostalgic but rational road-trip through America to talk about how people have changed since then and how American society became what it is today.

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