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PODCAST | Anamaria Antoci, one of the participants at the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about Romanian production company 4 Proof Film.

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Anamaria Antoci, producer at 4 Proof Film.

With a professional background in cultural project management, ANAMARIA ANTOCI began working in film production after joining 4 Proof Film in 2012. In 2014, the EAVE graduate produced her first feature, Adrian Sitaru’s Illegitimate, which premiered at the Forum in Berlin this year. Anamaria recently completed Sitaru’s latest feature The Fixer, and has now entered into production on her first documentary project, Planeta Petrila, directed by Andrei Dascalescu.

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

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PODCAST | Aet Laigu, one of the participants of the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about her Estonian production company Meteoriit

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Aet Laigu, founder and manager of Meteoriit.

AET LAIGU worked on the production of several shorts, TV commercials, documentaries and feature films in Estonia before setting up her own company Meteoriit in 2008. These included Kadri Kousaar’s 2007 film Magnus, marking the beginning of a long-standing collaboration with the writer-director and followed by her next two features The Arbiter and Mother. Aet is now developing another two features by Kousaar – Nordic Instinct and Dead Woman – for 2017 and 2018.

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

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PODCAST: Actress Tuva Jagell talks about working on the film Girls Lost, one of the finalists of the 2016 EFA Young Audience Award

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Girls Lost actress Tuva Jagell talks about her first acting experience and working with director Alexandra-Therese Keining. The film, produced in Sweden, is one of the 2016 finalist features for the European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award.

GIRLS LOST (Pojkarna): Three young girls who’s friendship is tested after they have planted a very special flower; the Nectar from the flower is changing their lives- and friendship – forever, as they get a taste of what it’s like growing up as a boy. It’s a story of how we’re creating gender, and how to know who you are when society is telling you who you should be, but also a story about young love and lust.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: The European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award is an award presented in 2016 for the fifth time by the European Film Academy and voted for by young film lovers across Europe. In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences across Europe will elect the winner from the three finalist films on Young Audience Film Day, which will be taking place on the 8th of May 2016.

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PODCAST: The young actress Lena Magnien interviews her own director, Emilie Deleuze, on the film Miss Impossible, one of the finalist films of the EFA Young Audience Award 2016

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The French film Miss Impossible is one of this year’s finalists for the European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award. In this short but sweet podcast, the main actress of Miss Impossible Lena Magnien interviews the director Emilie Deleuze about the idea for the film and how it was to make it. Three smart young actors translate.

MISS IMPOSSIBLE (Jamais contente): They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for their first show. Everyone seems to know what she should do and how she should act. And it’s not like 13-year-old Aurore has any fundamental problem with changing herself either. Who would want to be like this: unhappy, ugly and emotionally withdrawn? But the others don’t seem all that much happier to her either. She definitely doesn’t ever want to be as old, rundown and lonely as her mother. And so she prefers to stay the way she is, to observe and make her biting comments on whatever comes her way.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: The European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award is an award presented in 2016 for the fifth time by the European Film Academy and voted for by young film lovers across Europe. In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences across Europe will elect the winner from the three finalist films on Young Audience Film Day, which will be taking place on the 8th of May 2016.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews cinematographer Stefano Ferrari, who worked on two short films that will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner: Everything Will Be Alright and The Rhythm in Me.

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Stefano Ferrari is a young Italian cinematographer based in New York. He has always been a firm believer in working hard, and working your way from the bottom up. At 16, he started working as an electrician for a major opera and theater production, that travelled all over Europe. Cut to 10 years later. He has now made the transition to cinema, and is a fully formed director of photography. Everyone who has worked with him, knows him as a deeply committed collaborator who brings that extra something to the party (along with his Italian accent) no matter how big or small the budget may be. His imagination and curiosity combined with his technical skills make him a versatile director of photography who truly loves what he does.

Along with talking about what led him to his point; his journey, his dreams and ambitions. His insight in the profession of a cinematographer also leads us to ponder about the importance of cinematography in general. What does it take to become a good director of photography? How important is it to share the director’s vision?

Two films presented and screened at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner – the section of the Marché du Film dedicated to short films – will bear his name in the credits. They are Everything Will Be Alright and The Rhythm in Me. With Cannes fast approaching, he tells us about the films, introducing them to us, and revealing his work on them.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dietrich Brüggemann, director of Heil from the Lecce European Film Festival 2016.

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With his film Heil, director Dietrich Brüggemann has shown people and international audiences that it is possible to portray Neo-Nazis, their misconception and crazy ideas through satire. It is possible to make a political film by not talking politics. With Burn After Reading and the Three Stooges in mind, Bruggemann reveals how satire was the only possible format for him to portray Neo-Nazis life stories of contemporary Germany.

The film was showcased in the new section of Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce: European Comedy.

HEIL: Welcome to Prittwitz. The acclaimed Afro-German author Sebastian Klein is on a reading tour in the East German backwater and is given a fitting welcome by local neo-Nazis: a blow to the head. Sebastian promptly loses his memory and parrots everything people tell him. Nina, Sebastian’s pregnant girlfriend in Berlin, is highly agitated. Without further ado she travels to Prittwitz and teams up with the village policeman Sascha to track down her boyfriend. He is in the hands of the neo-Nazis and their leader Sven and feels right at home among them. Smirking, he appears on talk shows and mouths the slogans that Sven whispers to him. A “blackie” railing against integration – the public goes crazy. And Sven sees himself finally on his way to becoming an opinion leader…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bjuar Alimani, director of the film Chromium, from the 2016 European Film Festival in Lecce

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The director Bujar Alimani presented his film Chromium in Lecce, and reveals to us how he realized that two of the main characters of the film were based on two brothers he knew in his childhood.

With his first feature film Amnesty, Alimani won the Jury prize in Lecce and he couldn’t wait to participate again with a new film. The intent of the film was to portray Albanian society, not the one living in the very European Tirana but the small villages’.

CHROMIUM: After having lost two husbands, a mute woman a mother of two young boys has to survive and support her family by sheer will. Her older boy a 15 year old tries to come onto his own while attending school and illegally finding work at a Chromium mine nearby. A man that finds himself amidst a woman’s love and her young adolescent son’s jealous tantrums. A young female math teacher who loves rock music and has rebelled against her parent’s wishes of following the path of a comfortable life in the capital. She appears as a guardian angel helping and guiding the young 15 year old boy in his journey towards manhood.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stina Werenfels, director of Dora or the Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, from the 2016 Lecce European Film Festival.

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Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Stina Werenfels in Lecce at the European Film Festival – Festival del Cinema Europeo to present her new film Dora or the sexual neuroses of our parents. The film’s intent is to change people’s attitude and beliefs surrounding metal disabilities and idealized motherhood. Everything is up for a discussion in the film: what defines a good mother from a bad one, fertility and genetic tests, idealized motherhood.

It took Stina almost 7 years to make the film and the reason behind all these production difficulties lays mostly in the themes and topics Werenfels treats.

DORA OR THE SEXUAL NEUROSES OF OUR PARENTS: Dora is 18 and bursting with curiosity. Her mother Kristin has recently taken Dora off her sedating medication. The learning disabled young woman throws herself into all that life has to offer – this includes an infatuation with a man. To Kristin’s horror the two have a spontaneous sexual encounter that soon develops into a liaison: the morally dubious man is clearly drawn to Dora’s uninhibited sexuality. While Kristin tries in vain for another child, Dora finds herself pregnant…

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