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Riccardo Costantini – Coordinator of Cinemazero and Luca Giuliani – Curator of the restoration – The Merchant of Venice

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Riccardo Costantini. coordinator of Cinemazero and Luca Giuliani, curator of the restoration of THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by Orson Welles, which was presented at a very special event at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, in the Venice Classics section – the section dedicated to restored works and retrospectives. The year 2015 mark the 100th anniversary of Orson Welles’ death. The occasion has been celebrated in many ways at many festivals, but this is arguably the greatest treat any fan of cinema and Welles himself could hope for – the frequently cited as an unfinished film, though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film negatives, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and the fascinating, meticulous work that was done in order to bring this unseen masterpiece back to life. Riccardo and Luca tell us about this story, which in itself tells us about the importance of film restoration in the promotion of cinematic culture the world o ver, as this film’s future screenings in various parts of the world also stand to represent further.

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Piotr Chrzan – Filmmaker – Klezmer

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews director Piotr Chrzan, who presented his first fiction feature film KLEMZER at the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

He talks to us about the historical side of the film, and his own personal motivation with such delicate events that took place in Poland during World War Two in Poland. He also tells us about the contrast between the theatrical and cinematic in his feature, presented by the fact that despite the story being very much dialogue and character driven it takes place wholly outdoors in the distinctive forests of Poland.

On top of this Piotr also talks to us about the challenges he encountered in bringing his first feature to the big screen, and finished off by revealing that he indeed has a few ideas in his head that he would love to see materialize in the future.

KLEMZER: It is a sunny summer day in 1943. Poland is under German occupation. A group of young people, inhabitants of a nearby village, goes to the forest to gather fir cones and brushwood to use as firewood. They talk, flirt and make plans for the future. However this outing has an unexpected outcome: a certain event that is new to them will change their lives and the lives of other people who appear as the story develops.

“One day, I was playing with other children in the yard behind a big, old house in which we lived with a few other families. We were running around, when suddenly our nanny yelled: ‘Don’t go running there, it’s where they buried the Jew!’ We sat down next to her on the grass and she told us about the only Jew that lived in our village before the war. He was shot dead on a summer day during the war by another villager, a General Government Polish policeman. These strange facts, fascinating for a child, stuck in my mind. Years later, from these memories, coupled with what I had read about the Holocaust, Klezmer was born.”

TRANSLATION OF THE INTERVIEW BY: Marina Fabbri

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Aleksandra Zakrzewska – Producer – Klezmer 

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Aleksandra Zakrzewska, producer of the film KLEZMER by Piotr Chrzan, which was presented in the Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) programme of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

She tells us a little bit about the story of the film and the delicate historical topic it deals with. She also reveals what she thinks might be the reaction to the film, from both the international audience and a Polish one. Aleksandra also tells us about the challenges she was met with in making this film, and a little bit about her background – having made her feature film debut as a producer.

KLEZMER: It is a sunny summer day in 1943. Poland is under German occupation. A group of young people, inhabitants of a nearby village, goes to the forest to gather fir cones and brushwood to use as firewood. They talk, flirt and make plans for the future. However this outing has an unexpected outcome: a certain event that is new to them will change their lives and the lives of other people who appear as the story develops.

“One day, I was playing with other children in the yard behind a big, old house in which we lived with a few other families. We were running around, when suddenly our nanny yelled: ‘Don’t go running there, it’s where they buried the Jew!’ We sat down next to her on the grass and she told us about the only Jew that lived in our village before the war. He was shot dead on a summer day during the war by another villager, a General Government Polish policeman. These strange facts, fascinating for a child, stuck in my mind. Years later, from these memories, coupled with what I had read about the Holocaust, Klezmer was born.”

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Pascal Diot – director – Venice Film Market

With around of 1.200 accredited professionals and a couple af specific panel events on gap financing and third world film funding, the Venice Film Market in its foruth year of life shows to be the right place to start the professional year. the market director tell us more .

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Alexandria Bombach – director – Frame By Frame

Alexandria Bombach shares with FRED her amazing experience in Afghanistan while shooting Frame by Frame, a documentary about free press in a country where until not long ago taking a photo was a crime.

FRAME BY FRAME: Set in a modern Afghanistan, Frame By Frame follows four Afghan photojournalists as they navigate an emerging and dangerous media landscape. Through intimate interviews, powerful photojournalism, and never-before-seen archival footage shot in secret during the Taliban regime, the film connects audiences with four humans in the pursuit of the truth.

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Amin Palangi – director – Persian International Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)

Amin Palangi talks about a festival that brings together screen stories of diverse global Persian communities to celebrate their similarities, diversities and complexities through cinema.

The 4th Persian Film Festival is on from 03 to 06 September at Palace Norton Street Cinemas, showcasing the best of Iranian cinema and the Persian speaking world. Over four days the festival offers its viewers a great line-up of 22 films including features, documentaries, short films and animations, and Q&A sessions with filmmakers from Iran, USA and Australia.

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Gergana Doncheva – Film Critic – Film Stage Studio.

Gergana Doncheva from Bulgaria, one of the film critics who participated in the 2015 Talents Sarajevo platform, made a report for FRED Film Radio from Film Stage Studio – a cross-disciplinary training for a selected number of all participating talent professions by Gyula Gazdag and Mirjana Karanovic, which had its inaugural edition at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

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Ana Sturm – Film Critic – Film Stage Studio.

Ana Sturm from Slovenia, one of the film critics who participated in the 2015 Talents Sarajevo platform, made a report for FRED Film Radio from Film Stage Studio – a cross-disciplinary training for a selected number of all participating talent professions by Gyula Gazdag and Mirjana Karanovic, which had its inaugural edition at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

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The 2015 Talents Sarajevo film critics share their views and opinions on Son of Saul by Laszlo Nemes, one of the films featured in the programme of the 21st Sarajevo film festival.

Plot: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

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Stratis Chatzielenoudas – Director – Haunted by city lights

Under the guidance of FRED’s Matt Micucci, one of the film critics who participated in this year’s edition of Talents Sarajevo, Miro Frakic (Croatia), interviews Stratis Chatzielenoudas, director from Greece who participated in the Pack&Pitch workshop with his project “Haunted by City Lights”. He talks to us about his project and how far in the production he currently is as well as what he learnt from taking part in the workshop.

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