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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Marketa Sanctrochova, head of the Czech Film Center, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Czech Republic, along with Slovakia, is one of the two partner countries of CineLink at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival. We meet the head of the Czech Film Center, Marketa Santrochova, at a special press and industry lunch.

We are hence introduced to the activities of the Czech Film Center and the activities that she is involved in at CineLink, which mainly revolve around establishing a good rapport with the Balkan regions, upon which the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival focuses.

The Czech Film Center (CFC) was established to represent, market and promote Czech cinema and film industry and to increase the awareness of Czech film worldwide. CFC is the national partner of important international film festivals and co-production platforms, taking active part in selection and presentation of Czech films and projects. It provides tailor-made consulting, initiates and co-organizes numerous pitching forums and workshops, prepares specialized publications, and networks on international level.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ognjen Svilicic, pitching his TV drama Takeover at CineLink Drama from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

This year CineLink, for the very first time, is dedicating a section to drama series. Ognjen Svilicic is one of the participants. Director and screenwriter of his serial Takeover, which he is currently searching for a producer for, is one of the people taking part in it. Takeover” will tell the story of an “immoral” man taking over a pharmaceutical company.

Despite it coming from Croatia, the series will seek a broad international audience also through the fact that it will be in the English language. In addition to Takeover, we also talk about why Svilicic decided to plan a transition from cinema to TV, and what he hopes to achieve at the Sarajevo Film Festival this year.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Alexandra Strelkova, head of film promotion of the Slovak Film Institute, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Slovakia is one of the partner countries of this year’s CineLink, the co-production market of the Sarajevo Film Festival. We meet the head of film promotion of the Slovak Film Institute, Alexandra Strelkova. We talk about her activities in Sarajevo, but also about the institute’s activities at large. Its archive, storing the film heritage of Slovakia and, among them, gems from the Czechoslovak New Wave, is comprehensive.

Looking after the promotion of such rich heritage, we mention some of the films recently re-released and the ways in which the films are exhibited; one such way is through their own four screen cinema, featuring some very creative and fascinating programming. Besides this, we discuss some of the newer titles the Institute is involved with, such as The Teacher and Eva Nova.

The Slovak Film Institute (SFI) was established on April 1, 1963 in Bratislava . The film archive, then collected in the Film Distribution Center founded by Ivan Rumanovský in 1958, was moved to this new institution. After reopening the Czechoslovak Film Institute in Prague , the Slovak Film Institute was established as its branch office and shortly after that, at the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives ( FIAF ) the status of common archive of CFI and SFI was approved. The SFI became an independent establishment in 1991 and a member of FIAF in 2001 . Ján Komiňár was its first director and he stayed in the office for the longest period so far and was followed by over 20 successors. For the last five years Peter Dubecký has been the General Manager of SFI. In 1968 the institution moved from its very first seat at the Film Club on Rybné Square in Bratislava to Grösslingová Street , where its offices have been located until today. Since then, in addition to the domestic production archiving, SFI preserves also selected films of foreign origin. Since 1969 on, the Institute has initiated a wide range of activities and historical research in the field of Slovak cinematography.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Adina Pintilie, presenting her film Touch Me Not in the Work in Progress section of CineLink at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Filmmaker Adina Pintilie is presenting her film in the work in progress section, a research on intimacy, a lengthy project that started way back in 2010. Six years later, the film is almost ready for release. We talk about her inspiration behind developing a project that examines the theme of intimacy. We also talk about her activities in Sarajevo, mainly revolving around CineLink’s Work in Progress section, and she reveals that she hoped Touch Me Not will have a lengthy festival life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma, mentors of Pack & Pitch at Talents Sarajevo, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma return to Sarajevo as mentors and experts of the Pack & Pitch section of the Talents Sarajevo campus, which takes place during the Sarajevo Film Festival every year. This year, the participants in Pack & Pitch are unusually all female, a fortuitous choice as Brunnenmeyer points out.

Besides talking about how Pack & Pitch operates and what changes have defined it over the course of its existence, we discuss the projects themselves and whether or not, as a group, all have a defining trait beyond their originality.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker and film educator Gyula Gazdag, Talents Sarajevo mentor, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Filmmaker, scriptwriter and film educator Gyula Gazdag is this year’s mentor of the Film Stage Studio program of this year’s edition of Talents Sarajevo. The interdisciplinary hands-on training program aimed at directors and scriptwriters was first introduced at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival and returns this year in a changed format. Gazdag himself, as the new mentor of the program, is one of them. We discuss the fascinating and exciting intensive program with him, what will be taking place during it and its aims and objectives.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dana Linssen, film critic and one of the mentors of Talents Sarajevo, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Film critic Dana Linssen is one of the mentors of the film critics participating in this year’s Talents Sarajevo edition, which takes place during the course of the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival. Aside from her activities as mentor with the talents, we take this opportunity to take a closer look at the world of film criticism, for one of the first times on our radio; especially the way in which it has evolved over the course of the last few years and the way in which it is in today’s modern film industry.

Dana particularly takes the time to talk about what threatens the “independence” of a film critic today. In addition, we talk The Slow Criticism Project, an intriguing project that she founded.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yoana Pavlova, film critic and Talent Sarajevo mentor, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival

Yoana Pavlova, among other things, is the founder of Festivalists and one of this year’s mentors to the film critics of Talents Sarajevo. After a detailed descriptions of her activities with the talents of this year’s talents at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, we talk about other things, including the ways in which film criticism has evolved over the years and what impact social media has on film criticism as well as film journalism.

Yoana will also be hosting an event during the course of “VR Days” at the festival, focusing on VR; therefore we talk about this current “hot” topic in the world of media and whether or not she sees it as a completely new media or an evolution of the cinematic art itself.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amra Baksic Camo, head of CineLink at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

As every year, we catch up with the head of CineLink, the co-production market of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Amra Baksic Camo. After an overview of the market, which also illustrates how it has successfully evolved over the years, we talk about two new things it will feature in its 2016 edition; a section dedicated to TV dramas from the Southwestern European region and one called True Stories market.

This interview, and days after a CineLink alumni has been awarded the highest prize at the Locarno Film Festival, Godless, further revealing the successes of CineLink‘s ventures.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jovan Marjanović, head of Industry at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section is certainly one of the best in Europe. Its evolution has been ongoing and relentless and this year too offers an exciting program that especially tends to the future of the industry, and beyond – as the space assigned to the budding VR industry shows.

What better way to illustrate the admirable work that takes place in Sarajevo annually than by talking with the head of the industry himself, Jovan Marjanovic; an annual guest on FRED Film Radio. Jovan Marjanović takes some time to chat with FRED about this year’s program, despite his busy schedule.

Going over some of the events, panels and markets, we get a feeling of the atmosphere in Sarajevo, which as he points out, will welcome an estimated number of about 1000 film professionals.

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