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PODCAST | FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Michael Loebenstein, secretary general of FIAF from the 2016 FIAF Congress in Bologna, Italy.

FIAF, the International Federation of Film Archives, brings together the world’s leading institutions in the field of moving picture heritage. They are dedicated to the rescue, collection, preservation and screening of moving images. In our interview with its general secretary, Michael Loebenstein, we discuss its main activities in which it does just that and the impact that it has had so far, also in promoting the idea that “filming patrimony is important,” as Loebenstein. But not only that.

This year, its congress is taking place in Bologna, se we talk about the program of the congress but also the relationship between FIAF and the Cineteca di Bologna beyond the congress itself, and Il Cinema Ritrovato. On top of this, we talk about other activities by FIAF. Among them, its activities with UNESCO, Bologna summer schools, definitive reference works, making its presence felt in in the developing world, especially regarding a recent experience in the Indian Sub -Continent, which is an example that serves to illustrate just how global a heritage film is.

Founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world’s leading film archives whose purpose has always been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. Today, more than 150 archives in over 80 countries collect, restore, and exhibit films and cinema documentation spanning the entire history of film.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Udi Aloni, director of Junction 48 from the 62nd Taormina Film Fest.

Udi Aloni is more than passionate about his movies. This it’s shown in the way he faces all issues: frontally, no hold back, in your face. He is like this in real life too and his political passion and frustration come out pure and direct both from his film and from his thoughts.

JUNCTION 48:  Junction 48 is the love story of two young Palestinian hip-hop artists who use their music to fight against both the external oppression of Israeli society and the internal repression of their own crime-ridden, conservative community. It depicts a new generation of young Arabs who seek normality through their love and music – and against all odds.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Petr Oukropec, director of In Your Dreams from the 62nd Taormina Film Fest

Petr Oukropec talks with us of his film, its infinite tour around Europe and its success in the most unexpected places. We discover the way it was born (when the parkour was not contemplated yet) and how it developed to become he slick beautiful film it is now.

IN YOUR DREAMS: Only a few girls practice the art of parkour – running and somersaulting over rooftops, free-climbing up rusted scaffolding and leaping from one wall to the next. Laura takes it all in her stride. Though as she wildly races through the streets of Prague, her thoughts are running wild too. She has a crush on Luky, but he doesn‘t show much interest in her. Laura‘s parents live apart, and her mother is desperately looking for someone new. Jealousy, misunderstandings with her best friend – Laura‘s life is full of confusion. Sometimes, when she can‘t take it anymore, fantasy worlds evolve. When hope and fear push through the cracks of reality, it gets harder to keep her life in balance.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Igor Lopatonok, director of Ukraine on Fire, presented at the 62nd Taormina Film Fest

Igor Lopatonok is a film producer from Ukraine who moved to Los Angeles in 2008. When the first demonstrations started in his home country he decided to make a film that documented the actual fatcs. He finally directed it himself with an exceptional executive producer, Oliver Stone. The result was Ukraine on Fire. In this interviews, Lopatonok tells the tale of how the movie was made, with some considerations about the Ukraine situation nobody ever talks about.

WINTER ON FIRE: Many of the films on Ukraine depart from the February Revolution of 2014 known as “Euromaiden”, the Lopatonok film, also present him at the festival, strongly supported by Stone albeit from those facts beyond. Oliver Stone, with the pitch and the air of the best surveys, urges his listeners to understand the facts Fund. Through interviews conducted by the Oscar-winning director to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the former president Viktor Yanukovych, the former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko, in Ukraine on Fire talking about the hot topics and turning points of the war, of the Ukrainian crisis, the “behind the scenes” and the current political situation and its potential danger to the world.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Salvador Del Solar, director and screenwriter of Magallanes from the 63rd Sydney Film Festival

Salvador Del Solar talks about his decision to move behind the camera after a successful acting career to portray how Peruvian society struggles to come to terms with Peru’s recent past and the civil conflict that involved Peruvian government, the Quechua indigenous people and the radical organisation Shining Path.

MAGALLANES: Taxi driver Magallanes (Damián Alcázar) struggles to get by, and spends his spare time with his former military superior, a once-feared colonel during the civil conflict, who is now senile. One day Magallanes encounters Celina (Magaly Solier), an Indigenous woman he knew decades before under very different circumstances. He begins following her, eager to help and protect her when he discovers that she is in trouble with nasty loan sharks.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interview Paddy Breathnach, director of Viva from the 63rd Sydney Film Festival.

Paddy Breathnach uncovers authentic Cuba in Viva, a heartbreaking family drama about a troubled drag queen. In this interview, we meet the director, whose film, shortlisted earlier this year for an Academy Award, was presented in the Official Competition of the 62nd Sydney Film Festival to talk about it in more depth.

VIVA: In the vibrant drag community of contemporary Havana, Jesus (Héctor Medina) waits for the courage to steal the spotlight from troublesome local divas. His initial steps towards stardom are complicated by the arrival of his charismatic jailbird father Angel (Jorge Perugorría), who he hasn’t seen since he was a toddler.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interview actor Iain Glen at the 62nd Taormina Film Fest

Coming face to face with Jorah Mormont from the TV series Game of Thrones is certainly less frightening on a terrace in Taormina than it would seem from TV. Also because actor Iain Glen is a nice guys. He is also a serious and professionally trained actor, which makes for a more rewarding conversation on many levels.

Game of Thrones has been a blast these past few years on TV, a consistent blessing for both viewers and the actors playing in it. Even if we did not find out what lies what will find out in the next season, of course, we talked with Iain Glen about the impact of the show and standards that the series has set for all future TV productions of the same genre to come.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews actor Jeremy Renner at the 62nd Taormina Film Fest.

In this interview, Jeremy Renner talks about his passion for acting and the importance of determination in achieving one’s goals. Being an actor is more than physical training and learning your lines. He applied the same intensity of work in his job as a producer, particularly in his search for stories that have yet to be told.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews actress Kathryn Hahn from the 62nd Taormina Film Fest.

Kathryn Hahn is a nice and funny and generous actress . She did television form Crossing Jordan to Transparent and lots of movies from Revolutionary Road to We Are The Millers to She’s Funny That Way (the hilarious clever comeback of Peter Bogdanovch). She is a nice woman to talk with too, and she loves Italy and Campari Spritzes and Bellini. And she is not ashamed of being a Bad Mom (like in her upcoming film).

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