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PODCAST: Audio clip by Konaté Abdoul Karim (Cote d’Ivoire), one of the actors taking part in the Berlinale Talents 2016 edition.

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Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

Click here to visit Konaté Abdoul Karim’s page on the Berlinale Talents website

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Elisa Alvares, head of Media Finance at Bank Leumi UK

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Industry professionals gather together every year at the European Film Market (EFM), that takes place during the Berlinale. FRED is right there with them, to give you the insight on its various activities.

Elisa Alvares, head of Media Finance at Bank Leumi, will be one of its participants. Bank Leumi has a long history of supporting the global entertainment industry, and the Berlinale is only the first film market of the year where the company promoted its activities, initiatives and projects. Alvares shares some of them with us in this interview.

Founded more than 110 years ago, Bank Leumi has established a reputation as one of the leading foreign-owned banks in London. Their media finance team has extensive experience in financing: Production and distribution of feature films Theatrical exhibition Production and distribution of television productions Music publishing Video game production The Leumi Media and Entertainment Finance Team operates globally, with head offices in London and Los Angeles. Each office operates independently when required, or in tandem when it best suits the interests of our clients. Beyond the UK and Europe, they also enjoy excellent relationships with the US filmed entertainment industry, as well as companies in India, Australia and Canada.

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PODCAST: Interview with Jacopo Chessa, managing director of the Italian Short Film Center (Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio)

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This year’s edition of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, the most important short film festival and market in the world, will be housing an Italian focus with an event hosted by the Italian Short Film Center, along with Short Circuit – the European Network of Short Film and Video Art Distributors.

The managing director of the Italian Short Film Center, Jacopo Chessa, joins us on FRED once again to talk about this event, which represents an prestigious and important initiative for the Italian short film industry.

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As of 2016, the Italian Short Film Center, founding member of Short Circuit, will take part in the European Project “Short Film Pool”. In order to shine a light on this important initiative and in addition to the launch of numerous projects in support of Italian short films, the Italian Short Film Center, along with Short Circuit, will host an event that puts the spotlight on Italy, to explain, show and discuss the role of short films in Italy today.

The program includes:

A book presentation of The Italian short film Industry. 2014 Report (bilingual Italian/English edition) published by Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo, edited by Jacopo Chessa.

The Italian film commissions from the regions of Basilicata, Piedmont and Sardinia will each give a presentation discussing their funds for short films, shorts they have subsidized and their future prospects. In collaboration with Italian Film Commissions.

Italy and TV Paola Ruggeri from Mediaset Premium, the main Italian channel for short acquisitions, will discuss the channel’s criteria of selection, their editorial line and their upcoming projects involving short films.

Mauro Gervasini, head programmer at Venice Film Festival, will discuss the panorama of Italian film festivals with regard to short films starting with Venice, the most important Italian film festival.

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PODCAST: Giovanni Aloi (Italy) – director / editor – 2016 Berlinale Talents

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Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

Click here to visit Giovanni Aloi’s page on the Berlinale Talents website

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PODCAST: Rasha Hosny Khalel Ebrahim (Egypt) – film critic / journalist – 2016 Berlinale Talents

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Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

Click here to visit Rasha Hosny Khalel Ebrahim’s page on the Berlinale Talents website

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PODCAST: FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews with Florian Weghorn, director of programmer of Berlinale Talents.

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The Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

We join its programme manager Florian Weghorn to talk about this year’s edition, that is particularly defined by its theme titled “The Nature of Relations”. On top of introducing some of the highlights and new features of the 2016 Berlinale Talents, that will be welcoming 300 participants from different countries and different fields of the film and TV industry, Weghorn talks about its history, the way in which it has evolved over the years and reveals how the selection process for the talents works.

The Berlinale Talents offers a priceless opportunity for anyone wanting to flourish in the film and TV industry, and a further testimony of its importance is that this year, more than 100 talents alumni will be presenting films at the festival.

“Berlinale Talents is an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, a business division of the Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin GmbH, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, in cooperation with Creative Europe MEDIA, a programme of the European Union, the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.

It was initiated in 2003. In addition to the extensive summit programme of master classes and panel discussions with top-notch experts, Berlinale Talents offers a range of Project Labs in which you can further develop and present your own project.

Berlinale Talents also provides Studio programmes and workshops for specific groups of film professionals. As an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival, the entire event is closely linked with the programmes of the festival sections and the European Film Market.

While the roots of Berlinale Talents are firmly planted in Berlin new shoots of the initiative have been sprouting internationally. These Talents International editions, Talents Beirut in Lebanon, Talents Buenos Aires in Argentina, Talents Guadalajara in Mexico, Talents Durban in South Africa, Talents Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Talents Tokyo in Japan have the familiar structure and purpose of their German counterpart; all the while retaining a regional perspective and finding support and the necessary amenities in a locally based international film festival.

Talents initiatives are supported by local partners as well as by the Goethe-Institut.” (Description in italics taken from the official website of the Berlinale Talents.)

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Matthjis Wouter Knol director of the European Film Market (EFM) on its 2016 edition.

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As its official website reminds us, “The meetings, the handshake, the new film year, European Film Market – it all starts here”. The European Film Market (EFM) kicks off the film industry year, and it is Matthjis Wouter Knol‘s responsability at his second year as its director to capture the new market trends to guide industry professionals coming to Berlin from all over the world.

As the new edition of the EFM is approaching (Feb 11-19), Wouter Knol elaborates on the successful initiatives that were introduced at the market last year, such as The Drama Series, the EFM Start Ups and the CoPro Series in the Berlinale Co-production Market.

The EFM Industry Debates will revolve around a number of interesting topics. Considering the large scale presence of representatives and industry professionals from Asia, one of them will focus on Korean cinema. Another will pay great attention to producers, who ae in charge of many delicate and challenging tasks in the film industry, and is entitled “Producers and Entrepeneurs”.

In collaboration with the Berlinale Talents, the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series, and thanks to the Berlinale Talents Market Hub, 40 film projects have been selected to be presented and pitched to EFM projects.

“Harnessing the energy of Berlin and the passion for film, the European Film Market is the business epicentre of one of the most important international film festivals in the world, the Berlinale.

Every February the EFM opens the grand doors to the Martin-Gropius-Bau and welcomes over 8,400 producers, buyers, sales agents, distributors, exhibitors and financiers to the first major film market of the year. It’s the first date in the industry’s calendar and regarded as an early indicator for the new film year. Our trusted organization and commitment to quality content from around the world brings together the right people at the right place and time, inspiring the conversations and connections that are the cornerstone of the business.” (text taken from the official website of the European Film Market)

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PODCAST : Actor Michael Keaton and the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Walter Robinson talk about the film Spotlight.

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To mark the occasion of the Italian release of Spotlight by director Tom McCarthy, FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti is joined by actor Michael Keaton and the real life man whom he portrays in the film, the Pulitzer Prize winning Boston Globe editor, Walter Robinson.

The film is currently up for six Academy Awards, including one for Best Motion Picture of the Year, and Best Achievement in Directing for Tom McCarthy.

We talk with them about the importance of making films like Spotlight, that have the power to shake people up. We also ask Keaton about how he prepared for the role, and he tells us about the interesting process, as he had the chance to literally “study” Robinson, talking to him and absorbing his way of doing things: “it was a lot like having the answers to the test.”

SPOTLIGHT tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

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