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Jakub Viktorin – director – Visegrad Film Forum

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Jakub Viktorin of the Visegrad Film Forum, Slovak partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award, an award that will be decided by a young audience aged between 12 to 14 at the end of Young Audience Film Day, an event that takes place simultaneously in 25 different countries.

Aside from talking about this year’s edition of the Young Audience Award and the way things will run on the day in Bratislava, which is where the Slovak screenings will take place, Jakub talks with us about theVisegrad Film Forum, and tells us what it is, what it does and how it promotes cinema to a young audience.

He also talks with us about the various difficulties her believes are encountered by any attempt to promote cinema as something of great cultural importance.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos – general secretary – Hellenic Film Academy

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Giorgos Pyrpasopoulos of the Hellenic Film Academy – Greek partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award that will be assigned by a young audience aged between 12 and 14 on the 3rd of May on Young Audience Film Day.

Giorgos talks with us about the Young Audience Award, but also about the various activities in which the Hellenic Film Academy is involved.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Florence Menard – programme coordinator – Otok, the Institute for the Development of Film Culture

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Florence Menard of OTOK – Institute for the Development of Film Culture, who are Slovenian partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award.

We ask her what will be happening during Young Audience Film Day, which will be taking place on the 3rd of May 2015 and at the end of which a young Slovenian audience aged between 12 and 14 will be picking the winner of the Young Audience Award along with the young audience from 24 different countries.

But we also ask her about OTOK, the Institute for the Development of Film Culture, about what it is and the various activities that it organises and promotes.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Daniel Lundquist – Head of programming & Media Literacy – BUFF Filmfestival

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Daniel Lunquist, head of programming and media literacy at the BUFF Filmfestival, the International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö, who are the Swedish partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award.

Daniel Lundquist speaks with FRED about his involvement with the Young Audience Awards in Mälmo, Sweden, and his work as Media Literacy coordinator at BUFF film festival

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Manon Sandee – senior project leader education – EYE Film Institute Netherlands

FRED’s Matt Micucci talks with the Manon Sandee of EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Dutch partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award, an award that will be decided by a young audience aged between 12 and 14 at the end of the Young Audience Film Day, that will be taking place on the 3rd of May 2015.

Aside from talking about the Young Audience Award, Manon gives us an overview of the various activities organised and promoted by EYE, and tells us why she things film education and the promotion of cinema to a young audience is so important.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD – In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Sanna Lenken – director – My Skinny Sister

Director Sanna Lenken talks about her film My Skinny Sister, which is nominated for this year’s EFA Young Audience Award.

MY SKINNY SISTER: 12-year-old Stella’s big sister Katja (Swedish singer Amy Diamond in her screen debut) is a major figure skating talent. Her parents admire her and Stella looks up to her. But their mother is under a lot of stress and their father is preoccupied. Stella is the only one who really has the time to look close and see the truth; Katja isn’t feeling well. She is practicing too much and she barely eats a thing. Through the eyes of her desperate little sister (wonderfully portrayed by Rebecka Josephson, who is a real find) we follow a painful battle against a horrible illness and a family whose whole existence falls apart.

My Skinny Sister is a powerful and moving family drama about sisterhood and fallen ice princesses, with great acting through and through.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015 on the 3rd of May during Young Audience Film Day.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award

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Beata Marciniak – film education specialist / coordinator – New Horizons Association

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Beata Marciniak, Film Education specialist of the New Horizons Association, Polish partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award.

Aside from talking about all the things that will be taking place during the 3rd of May, Young Audience Film Day, in which the young audience will attend the screenings of the three finalist films and pick out the winner of the award, we talk with Beata about the many other activities promoted by the New Horizons Association aimed at younger audience, including exciting initiatives to promote the making of Polish film productions more aimed at a younger audience.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD – In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award.

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Corinna Downing – programmer – British Film Institute (BFI)

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Corinna Downing of the British Film Institute (BFI), British and Irish partners of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award, that will be decided on the 3rd of May 2015, during Young Audience Film Day.

With the imminent kick off of the 5th edition of the Young Audience Awards, Fred has the chance to talk with one of the festival’s prestigious collaborators: Corinna Downing, BFI programmer and esteemed voice in UK institutions for film literacy.

EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young AudienceAward.

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Annalisa Sandrelli – organizer – 5th International Symposium Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Annalisa Sandrelli, lecturer in English Interpreting at UNINT (University of International Studies in Rome), who will be organising the 5th International Symposium Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility.

FRED Film Radio will be media partners of the event, which will be taking place on the 16th of June 2015. Annalisa talks about the main issues that will be discussed throughout the day and even introduces the topic of respeaking, somewhat unfamiliar to most people, but that is bound to leave a mark in the future of culture accessibility. She also discusses with us the importance of accessibility in culture, and its current state in Europe, giving clear examples of territories in which such practices are utilized extremely well, and other territories in which they are disregarded.

5TH INTERNATIONAL SYNOPSIUM RESPEAKING, LIVE SUBTITLING AND ACCESSIBILITY: The 2015 International Symposium on Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility, will be held on 12 June 2015 at UNINT – Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Italy.

This is the fifth symposium in the series, after Forlì (2006), Barcelona (2009), Antwerp (2011) and Barcelona (2013). These events aim to bring together academic researchers, software developers, broadcasters, consumers and anyone interested in recent developments in media accessibility and applications of speech recognition technology.

In February 2013 the European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education published a Report on the transposition of Directive 2010/13/EU on Audiovisual Media Services in EU countries. The Report found that progress is still slow and uneven throughout the EU and that further developments are needed to ensure wider access to programmes and information for all citizens via audio description, audio/spoken subtitles and sign language. Regarding live subtitling, over the past 10 years respeaking by means of speaker-dependent speech recognition (SR) technology has become the preferred method to provide live subtitles on TV and in live events in many countries.

At the same time, there have been significant improvements in speaker-independent speech recognition technology, with interesting applications in automatic subtitling and automatic speech reporting. Moreover, the deployment of the HbbTV standard in Europe is opening up more opportunities for the delivery of audiovisual content to consumers, ranging from traditional broadcast TV, video on-demand and catch-up TV services, like BBC iPlayer, as well as interactive services and Internet applications.

Clearly, these developments are also creating more demand for accessibility services.

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Marta Bite – producer – National Film Centre of Latvia

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Marta Bite of the National Film Centre of Latvia, Latvian partners of the 4th EFA Young Audience that will be taking place on the 3rd of May – Young Audience Film Day.

As well as talking about the Young Audience Award, Marta discusses with us other film related activities aimed at a young audience promoted by the Film Centre of Latvia, as well as why she thinks it is important to promote the cultural value of the cinematic art.

EFA YOUNG FILM AUDIENCE AWARD – In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-old audiences in Aalborg (Denmark), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Erfurt (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Izola (Slovenia), Kiev (Ukraine), London (UK), Malmö (Sweden), Prizren (Kosovo), Riga (Latvia), Skopje (FYR Macedonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Tallinn (Estonia), Tbilisi (Georgia), Tel Aviv (Israel), Turin (Italy), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Zagreb (Croatia) will elect the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.

Click here to visit the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award

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