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Robin Ribback – CIO – VerbaVoice

Deaf people encounter barriers in all areas of their lives. VerbaVoice offers services that help removing these barriers for Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened people.  CIO Robin Ribbak explains the company’s new projects and how they managed to integrate disabled people in the process.

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Gion Linder – head of access services – Swiss TXT

FRED’s Antonio Back interviews Gion Linder, head of access services of Swiss TXT, from the 5th International Symposium on Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility, which was held in Rome on the 12th of June 2015.

SWISS TXT provides high-quality marketing and engineering services  and manages the Swiss Broadcasting Company cross-media teletext. Head of Access Services Gion Linder discusses possible measures to improve quality of TV live subtitling.

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Agnieszka Szarkowska / Łukasz Dutka – head of one of the first  respeaking projects in Poland / researcher in the project

Interpreters have a number of skills that might be useful in respeaking. That is the assumption of the research carried out by Agnieszka Szarkowska, Łukasz Dutka. The researchers explain what kind of tests they conducted and share some of their expectations on the results.

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Amela Odobasic – head of public affairs- Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

FRED’s Antonio Back interviews Amela Odobasic, head of public affairs of the Communications Regulatory Agency, at the 5th International Symposium on Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility which took place in Rome, Italy on the 12th of June 2015.

Amela Odobasic, from the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia Erzegovina. discusses her collaboration with ITU to implement ICT accessibility in developing countries, including Bosnia Erzegovina.

The Communication Regulatory Agency, in charge of regulating the communications sector, was originally established in March 2001 by the decision of the High Representative, combining the competencies of the Independent Media Commission (originally responsible for regulating broadcasting) and the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (in charge of telecommunications).

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Rakhshan Bani-Etemad – filmmaker – Tales

Rakhshan Bani-Etemad talks about her outlook on Iranian’s society, her main source of inspiration to write the stories she tells. She also talks about the process of creating a feature film from a series of shorts to bypass government’s restriction on film making in Iran.

TALES: The film is made up of several loosely connected episodes, depicting people from many backgrounds at the margins of Teheran’s society: a taxi driver who tries to help a drug-addicted sex worker, a group of unemployed factory workers confronting government bureaucracy, a social worker running from the husband who disfigured her, and a documentary filmmaker are among those whose lives intersect. The brilliant dialogue strikes the perfect balance between drama and comedy, combining fascinating stories of loss and love.

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Sophia Turkiewicz – director – Once My Mother

Director Sophia Turkiewicz explains how her mother’s story is deeply connected to Poland’s untold history during World War II.

ONCE MY MOTHER: When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.

With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?

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Sepideh Farsi – director and co-screenwriter – Red Rose

Director Sepiedh Farsi engages us in a absorbing conversation about making difficult decisions and difficult films, Iranian politics and society and political activism that requires an high price to be paid.

RED ROSE: Seamlessly shifting between real footage and scripted scenes, the film follows the development of a relationship between a middle-aged man and an inspired young activist during Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

Red Rose is a drama that explores violence, sexuality and the state of Iran, all intertwined in a captivating narrative.

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RED ROSE is dedicated to the Iranian youth and women.

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فیلم گل سرخ به زنان و جوانان ایران تقدیم شده است

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RED ROSE est dédié aux femmes et à la jeunesse d’Iran.

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Francesco Munzi – director – Black Souls (Anime Nere)

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri interviews Francesco Munzi, director of the film Black Souls (Anime Nere), featured in the official competition of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival. Director Francesco Munzi talks about Black Souls, a contemporary drama that ticks all the boxes of the Greek tragedy and its archetypes.

BLACK SOULS (ANIME NERE): Black Souls follows three brothers from a Calabrese crime family faced with a crisis and no easy resolution. Calabria’s mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, is on the background of this powerful tale of morality and the challenges of breaking cycles of crime and violence.

Evocatively capturing both the moral and physical decay of Calabria, Black Souls is an intelligent and bracing crime film.

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Robert Gordon – director – Best of Enemies

FRED’s Antonio Back intervies Robert Gordon, director of the documentary Best of Enemies from the Contemporary Lives section of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy.

In this interview, you can listen to Robert Gordon talk about the incident in US television history which changed television into a sensation-seeking medium.

BEST OF ENEMIES: Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God and sex.

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Terezie Krizkovska – co-founder – NaFilm: National Film Museum

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Terezie Krizkovska, one of the creators and founders of NaFilm – National Film Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.

NaFilm is a project which was started by a group of students, with the aim to raise awareness of Czech cinema among a wider public, and give the Czech Republic its first true National Film Museum.

The exhibition that is running at the moment, from June to October, at the Museum Montanelli is – as Terezie tells us – just the start, a trailer, a teaser, a testing ground. Through this exhibition, she says, their intention is not only to achieve a solid level of education and entertainment on Czech cinema and filmmaking in general, but also to understand what they need to have in the resulting museum and film centre from the feedback they will be receiving to the visiting public.

Terezie also tells us about the long and hard journey to get the project off the ground. How it started out of an idea and a passion, and how they were able to raise awareness and gather enough funds to get it all going. She also shares with us her opinion and ideas on film education, and about whether or not film belongs in a museum as much as it does in the cinema.

NAFILM – NÁRODNÍ FILMOVÉ MUZEUM – NATIONAL FILM MUSEUM: Why doesn’t Czech cinema have its own museum? Hasn’t Czech film heritage been hidden in archives and depositories for too long? What if we finally – after over hundred years – present it to public?

NaFilM was founded to answer all these questions.

The founders of the NaFilM (National Film Museum) project are students from the Film Studies department at Charles University, Prague. They endeavor to establish a unique institution whose purpose is to examine, re-evaluate and publicly present the importance of the Czech Republic’s national film heritage not only to the Czech people but also to visitors from all around the world.

The intended institution should become an engaging place to experience film open to both the general public and to experts and film professionals. Students and academics from the Film Studies department have been in dialogue with theorists, experts and curators to work on the concept of a National Film Museum for the past two years.

The elaborated film museum concept and its architectural design along with selected sections of future museum exhibitions will be showcased at a special exhibition held in Prague in June 2015. This exhibition will present not only our significant cinematographic heritage, but also possible curatorial approaches to exhibiting the film medium and its history.

The accompanying program of the exhibition will consist of various workshops, screenings and discussions, including a series of lectures called ‘How to present film or Why doesn’t Prague have a film museum?’ that will offer a unique opportunity to participate in the process of establishing the National Film Museum.

Click here to visit the official website of NaFilm – National Film Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

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