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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Florian Eichinger, director of Hands of a mother from the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

Hands of a mother won two awards at the Munich Film Fest before landing at the European Film Festival in Lecce in competition. The film deals with the bitter story of a man whose family and life is shaken as he is reminded, all of a sudden, of all the violent acts he was victim of as a child by the only person who should have protected him the most, his mother. The title highlights how violence can become even more scary when it comes from the unexpected. Even visually, everything in the film is set to let the audience understand how many horrific things can hide behind normality. The idea of the film comes from a story Eichinger read in a newspaper and that he developed to shoot the film, the closing part of his trilogy on domestic abuse.

Hands of a mother: at a family reunion on a boat, engineer Markus remembers something dreadful about his childhood after an incident involving his mother and his four-year old son. As the memories, more and more invasive, eventually threaten to destroy his marriage, Markus needs to confront his family, his mother and most of all himself, to overcome the shadows of the past.

For the official page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stephen Frears, director who received the Career Award from the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

Director Stephen Frears has arrived in Lecce straight from London where he is currently in post-production phase of his net film, Victoria and Abdul, a film based on the true story of the peculiar relationship between Queen Victoria and her indian muslim servant Abdul Karim. The protagonists are Dame Judi Dench and the famous indian actor Ali Fazal. At the European Film Festival Frears receives the Career Award, a path he has carried on with curiosity, political commitment and self-criticism. To recall the most important moments of his filmography, from the beginning in the early 80’s, through films like Dangerous Liaisons and High Fidelity till reaching Philomena and Florence Foster Jenkins, the Festival organized a retrospective of ten of his films as an homage. Through cinema, Frears has always participated in the political debate inspiring and influencing his audience towards tolerance and respect for civil rights.

Stephen Frears at the 18th edition of European Film Festival (Lecce, 3 rd – 8 th April) directed by Alberto La Monica and Cristina Soldano. The filmmaker will attend the Festival on its closing day, April 8th. Born in 1941, Frears is known by critics and audiences for the cynical and irreverent style characterizing most of his films. After a series of movie hits filmed in his homeland – including My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988) with Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer – 1990’s The Grifters was the first American work by the director from Leicester, strongly wanted and produced by Martin Scorsese and boasting an exceptional cast: John Cusack, Annette Bening and Anjelica Huston. The film earned him a nomination to the Academy Award for Best Director. It was followed by many other successful films such as Hero (1992), High Fidelity (2000), Dirty Pretty Things (2002). 2006 was the year of The Queen with an amazing Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for Best Actress and the Coppa Volpi Award at Venice Film Festival. With the dramatic film Philomena (2013), starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, Frears received awards around the world, including Best Screenplay (to Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope) at Venice in 2013 and at the BAFTA Awards in 2014 and the David di Donatello for Best European Film, in addition to numerous nominations at the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. In 2015 he directed The Program, about the story of cyclist Lance Armstrong (Ben Foster), and in 2016 Florence starring Meryl Streep. With the same talent and effectiveness, Frears has also made many TV films during his career. Frears is currently in post-production on his new film Victoria and Abdul, starring once again Judi Dench in the role of Queen Victoria, together with Ali Fazalas, who plays Abdul Karim, and Michael Gambon.

For the official page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Teresa Kotyk, director of Home Is Here from the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

After presenting it at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival, Teresa Kotyk brought her feature directorial debut Home Is Here in Lecce for the annual European Film Festival, where it was featured in the main competition.

Home is Here makes a peculiar connection: a link between two lonely people, two lonely souls, both looking for a place, a real home, and stronger concrete feelings. The two protagonists of the film never meet. Kotyk plays with the paradox of connections and relationships that grow out of little rituals, such as the exchange of little and few but significant messages. Although the title could partially give away the intent of the film, Home Is Here elaborates on what “home” means and how it is more of a place inside ourselves, a place where we may discover who we really are.

HOME IS HERE. Young Hannah is temporarily living with her mother and her little brother in the Olympic Village at Innsbruck. One day she breaks in at Max’s, who lives alone in a modern villa. Time and again Hannah secretly explores his seemingly austere house, until Max begins to notice subtle changes. He lets himself into a playful form of communication with Hannah that ultimately moves them both to see life is not about searching for a particular place or relationship, but instead that you can only find home in yourself: HOME IS HERE.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mehmet Can Mertoglu, director of Album from the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

Mehmet Can Metroglu represents Turkish cinema in the main competition of the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy. The young director was present at the celebration of European cinema with Album, his first feature film, which premiered at last year’s Critics’ Week in Cannes.

Album examines how adoption is a practice that Turkish society has difficulties accepting.

Despite the prominence of Turkish directors in world cinema, including Nuri Bilge Ceylan who is one of the protagonists of this year’s edition of the festival, Mertoglu reveals to us that his cinematic references and influences are more from contemporary Romanian cinema and such directors as Cristi Puiu and Corneliu Porumboiu.

ALBUM. A childless couple prepares a photo album of a fake pregnancy period – at the beach, at work, lounging at home. This way, their adopted child will eventually be able to recognize them as loving biological parents. And of course, they’ll have real documentation to share with friends and co-workers. Bahar and Cuneyt are an average middle-class couple with beliefs, dreams and preoccupations of their provincial urban environment. A child would complete their perfect lifestyle image, but adoption can be a long bureaucratic process, especially for picky parents. However, persistence and the right connections pay off. The proud couple goes all the way with the family history façade by staging snapshots in the hospital with their adopted baby boy. The earnest couple’s next step is to start a new life with their new baby. History teacher Cuneyt’s requested reassignment to a faraway city comes in quickly with his bureaucratic influence. But the couple panics when they discover…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marion Döring, EFA director and president of the jury of the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

FRED Film Radio meets Marion Döring once again. We caught up with the director of the European Film Academy (EFA) in Lecce, Italy at the European Film Festival, where she served as president of the jury of the main competition.

As a representative of EFA, Döring fully supports the cause of director Oleg Sentsov and, along with filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, accompanied Askold Kurov, the director of the documentary The Trial: The State of Russia Vs. Oleg Sentsov, in his presentation of the film to the Italian audiences.

Döring analyzes the role of filmmakers and in general of European cinema to build consciences, to generate awareness on the social and political situation surrounding us all. As the Young Audience Awards ‘ ceremony is approaching, Döring also talks about how important it is to educate, form and develop an audience for European films starting from young students who are ready and prepared to watch independent films.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, who received a career award at the Lecce European Film Festival 2017.

Having met her earlier this year at the Berlinale 2017, filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is back on FRED Film Radio. This time, we met her at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy, where she presented her new film Spoor to the Italian audience and was the first “Protagonist of European Cinema” of this year’s edition – being the subject of a special retrospective put together by the festival.

The Polish director of such works as Europa, Europa also received a Career Award, the Ulivo d’Oro, after a masterclass that took place at Lecce’s Cinema Massimo, chaired by film critic and curator Massimo Causo.

As chairwoman f the European Film Academy (EFA), Holland accompanied Askold Kurov along with Marion Doring, director of the EFA, to introduce to Italian audiences in attendance in Lecce the new documentary The Trial – The State of Russia Vs. Oleg Sentsov. She strongly supports, along with the EFA, Sentsov’s cause and they are all fighting and hoping for his release from prison.

AGNIESZKA HOLLAND. The recipient of two Academy Award nominations (in 1985 for Best Foreign Language Film with Angry Harvest and in 1990 for Best Adapted Screenplay with Europa Europa (1990), winner of the  Golden Globe), Agnieszka Holland began her career in Poland as an assistant for Krzysztof Zanussi and later worked with Andrzej Wajda. Provincial Actors, one of the key films of the so-called “cinema of moral anxiety”, received the critics’ award at Cannes in 1980. In 1981 the director moved to France.

Holland has also worked on many TV productions, including well-known TV series such as House of Cards, The Wire, Cold Case, and Treme. The European Film Festival will present a selection of her films, chosen together with the director herself, including Spoor (Pokot), which screened at the last edition of the Berlinale to great critical acclaim.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Esmeralda Azkarate-Gaztelu Carro, from the Aptent Soluciones SL and Teatro Accesible.

Esmeralda Azkarate-Gaztelu Carro is currently the Director of Accesibility and Translation contents at Teatro Accesible (Aptent Soluciones). She also teaches theatre audio description at the MA in Audiovisual Translation, Localisation, Subtitling and Dubbing from the Universidad de Cádiz (Spain). At ARSAD 2017 she presented her Teatro Accesible, a project that has been running for over 5 years now, providing accessibility services in different theatres, festivals and cities throughout Spain. On FRED she describes her first steps in accessibility and how difficult, challenging but rewarding it is to audiodescribe a theatre play.

Since its beginning in 2007, the international seminar on audio description ARSAD has been a meeting point for all key agents interested in both research and practice in audio description. Its sixth edition, to be held in Barcelona on March 16th (all day) and 17th (morning) 2017, aims to take stock of recent advances while looking at the future of the field. ARSAD 2017 would like to engage practitioners, researchers, trainers, trainees, regulators, broadcasters, users, social activists, cultural managers, and anyone interested in audio description in a fruitful discussion on the past, present and future of audio description.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Natalia Kiser, from the University of Warsaw about the Live audio description to the 2017 Samba Carnival Parade in Florianópolis, Brazil

Natalia Kiser is a PhD student at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at University of Warsaw. At ARSAD 2017 she presents her experience in audio describing the 2017 Samba Carnival Parade in Florianópolis, Brazil. On FRED she reveals how she ended up in Brazil after studying in Warsaw and how she approached this particular work at the Accessibility Centre at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.

Since its beginning in 2007, the international seminar on audio description ARSAD has been a meeting point for all key agents interested in both research and practice in audio description. Its sixth edition, to be held in Barcelona on March 16th (all day) and 17th (morning) 2017, aims to take stock of recent advances while looking at the future of the field. ARSAD 2017 would like to engage practitioners, researchers, trainers, trainees, regulators, broadcasters, users, social activists, cultural managers, and anyone interested in audio description in a fruitful discussion on the past, present and future of audio description.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Elisa Perego, from the University of Trieste for the AD-LAB PRO Project

Elisa Perego is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Trieste (Italy), in the Department of Language, Translation and Interpreting Studies. She is also the coordinator of the European project ADLAB PRO (2016-2019) which she presented at ARSAD 2017 and on FRED. ADLAB PRO is a three year project financed by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships. Despite the incessant advocacy of an inclusive society and the growing need for accessible audiovisual products, the professional figures working in the field of AD are still few, often untrained and not well defined. Furthermore, the provision of AD is uneven across Europe. ADLAB PRO aims to fill this gap and it will define a curriculum for ensuring professional Europe-wide AD implementation in all cultural and media sectors through the creation of training materials to develop the new AD professional profile.

Since its beginning in 2007, the international seminar on audio description ARSAD has been a meeting point for all key agents interested in both research and practice in audio description. Its sixth edition, to be held in Barcelona on March 16th (all day) and 17th (morning) 2017, aims to take stock of recent advances while looking at the future of the field. ARSAD 2017 would like to engage practitioners, researchers, trainers, trainees, regulators, broadcasters, users, social activists, cultural managers, and anyone interested in audio description in a fruitful discussion on the past, present and future of audio description.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews David Vialard, from the Texas State University and the Illinois State University.

David Vialard is a PhD candidate in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University and he is also an Instructional Assistant Professor in the English Department at Illinois State University. At Arsad 2017, he presented his research and study on “Audio description as a pedagogical tool in composition and writing”. On FRED, he reveals how he started to look at Audio description in a different light and how he decided to use it in other ways. In his presentation, Vialard explores the many ways in which AD can pedagogically add to English Literature, Theatre, and Technical Writing courses through practical means of teaching analysis and discursive means of examining the roles language and social practice play in constructing social models of disability and access.

Since its beginning in 2007, the international seminar on audio description ARSAD has been a meeting point for all key agents interested in both research and practice in audio description. Its sixth edition, to be held in Barcelona on March 16th (all day) and 17th (morning) 2017, aims to take stock of recent advances while looking at the future of the field. ARSAD 2017 would like to engage practitioners, researchers, trainers, trainees, regulators, broadcasters, users, social activists, cultural managers, and anyone interested in audio description in a fruitful discussion on the past, present and future of audio description.

To follow the program click here.

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