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Eve Ringuette – actress – Le Dep

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Eve Ringuette, the leading actress in the film LE DEP by director Sonia Bonspille Boileau, which was presented in the Forum of Independents Competition of the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

We ask her about the collaboration with the filmmaker, and she reveals that the character she plays was written for and inspired by her. We also ask her about how she was able to share such intimate and powerful chemistry with co-star Charles Buckell-Robertson, with whom she dominates the narrative and on screen actor.

She also tells us about certain responsibilities of playing a character from the Innu community – a rare feat in cinema – and reveals to us her pet goals and aspirations of becoming a representative of strong aboriginal women in her acting profession.

LE DEP: One night Lydia is attacked as she’s preparing to close her father’s store, and in the next few hours she is forced to make a number of life-altering decisions. In her powerful psychological drama, the director demonstrates her sensitivity in depicting the world of the Innu community as well as the inner emotions of the young protagonist.

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Barbara Adler – subject of documentary – Amerika

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Barbara Adler, musician and subject of the documentary AMERIKA directed by Jan Foukal, which was presented in the documentary competition of the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Czech-Canadian Barbara Adler talks to us about the culture of tramping, what it is and what it means to her. She also reveals how it allowed her to discover the country of the Czech Republic, from which she originated and which she knew very little about, as well as the many encounters and awakenings she experienced as a central part of the documentary.

AMERIKA: The story of an unusual journey or a staged piece of contemplation? However we perceive this tale of a couple wandering through the Czech countryside, we can best experience it by yielding to the calm tempo of their journey through the shady woods. Amerika isn’t a portrait of specific individuals but rather a probe into the Czech phenomenon of “tramping.”

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Jan Foukal – director – Amerika

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Jan Foukal, director and one of the leading subjects of the doucmentary AMERIKA, which had its world premiere in the documentary competition of the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Jan Foukal talks to us about how the project began and gives us an in depth about ‘tramping’, a characteristic Czech movement which sees long trips of discovery in the countryside. He also talks with us about the other main theme of the film, from which it borrows its title – America as a concept much more than the geographical place.

We also ask him about the challenges of directing the film and appearing in front of it and ask him how the collaboration with Barbara Adler, the co-lead subject of the documentary, began.

AMERIKA: The story of an unusual journey or a staged piece of contemplation? However we perceive this tale of a couple wandering through the Czech countryside, we can best experience it by yielding to the calm tempo of their journey through the shady woods. Amerika isn’t a portrait of specific individuals but rather a probe into the Czech phenomenon of “tramping.”

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Paz Fábrega – filmmaker – Viaje

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Paz Fábrega, director of the film VIAJE, which had its European premiere at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Paz talks with us about the journey that was the making of this film, which was made with portable equipment and shot intuitively and impulsively with plenty of room for improvisation and a very lengthy post production process.

She also talks about her own interest in experimenting with different forms of filmmaking and her lenience towards telling stories that somehow fit in with particular events that take place in her life at the time.

VIAJE: San Jose, Costa Rica, the present. Pedro (30) and Luciana (29) meet at a party. Although there’s no fatal attraction, there’s a hint that something is happening between them. What follows is an impulsive decision to travel together to the base of the Rincon de la vieja volcano in the northwest of the country. Forget about past traumas, this unassuming romance focuses on the importance and singularity of the here and now.

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Patrick Zabaealscoa – principal Lecturer in Translation Studies – Pompeu Fabra University

Dr Zabalbeascoa is a principal Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He is an expert in translation theory, didactics of translation and audiovisual screen translation, mostly from English into Spanish and Catalan.

Dr Zabalbeascoa reflects on key pedagogical concepts and terms designed for a multilingual, multimodal, foreign language learning platform such as Clipflair.

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Kieran Donaghy – expert – Using film to Teach Languages in a World of Screens

Dr Kieran Donaghy has a Ma in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and Business Communication. He has focused his career in creating resources for the use of film in the classroom, which he shares through his blog http://film-english.com.

In 2013, FilmEnglish obtained the ELTons Award (sponsored by the British Council and Cambridge ESOL) for Innovation in Teacher Resources and a Medea Award (sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme) for the User-Generated content.

Dr Donaghy talks about the potential of using films (also with older learners) and especially shorts videos to teach a foreign language.

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Isabelle Vanderschelden – Senior Lecturer and French section leader in the Department of Languages, Information and Communication – Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden is Senior Lecturer and French section leader in the Department of Languages, Information and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also a core member Flame Reasearch Centre and Filta

As her colleague Dr Carmen Herrero, Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden describes her experience as a teacher (of French as a foreign language) and the research studies realized for the the groups FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) and FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association) at Manchester Metropolitan University

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Ilaria Brancatelli – expert on film and media in the classroom as accelerated language learning experience

Dr Ilaria Brancatelli gained a BA/MA Social and Political/Historical Sciences at the University of Turin. She is specialized in the engagement in Social Science research with focus on Ethnography, Ethnographic research emanating mainly from psychological, sociological and anthropological perspectives and Linguistics and cultural studies.

Film and media as a possible tool for the implementation of accelerated learning in language teaching practice, with particular focus on learning styles and inclusive learning. Accelerated learning, as a concept, is synonymous with a more efficient and enjoyable learning experience. The matching of the way learners are taught to the way they prefer to learn is the essence of the driving force that seeks to identify a personalised learning style. Dr Brancatelli’s research explores the possibility that the use of film and media offers a range of valuable tools to facilitating and enhancing such more natural and satisfying learning outcomes.

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Jennifer Lertola, Noa Talaván – collaborators – ClipFlair

Dr Jennifer Lertola is an E-tutor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her main research interests include teaching Italian as a foreign language, second language acquisition, audiovisual translation and online education. She has been a member of EU-funded Clipfair project.

Dr Noa Talaván holds a senior lecturer position in the Foreign Languages Dept. of the Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Her main fields of research are audiovisual translation, mobile learning and foreign language education. She is currently taking part in two different projects: the above mentioned Clipflair and “SO CALLED ME” on Mobile Learning Applications in Language Learning (as part of a group called ATLAS).

Dr Lertola and Talaván presented the results of their e-learning project through Clipflair, an online platform meant to enable foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioting of clips.

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Carmen Herrero – Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish – Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Carmen Herrero is the Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish at Manchester metropolitan University. She teaches Hispanic cinema and culture. Dr Her and corero is a core member of the FLAME research Centre (Film, Languages and Media in Education) and also a co-director and co-founder of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association.

FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) is a new and pioneering Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University dedicated to the development and dissemination of innovative research and current findings in the areas of pedagogy, languages, media and film. FLAME is a sort of follow up to the work of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association), a worlwide association founded by the core member of FLAME, which has now over 2.500 members from 90 different countries and continues to grow.

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