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Film: Akadimia Platonos (2009)

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Elena Anaya – actress – They Are All Dead (Todos Estan Muertos)

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri interviews actress Elena Anaya, who is features in her most recent role as Lupe in Beatriz Sanchis’s They Are All Dead (Todos estan muertos). Elena also tells us about her successful career and her friendship with Pedro Almodovar as well as the many projects she has been working on recently.

THEY ARE ALL DEAD: The beautiful and radiant Spanish actress Elena Anaya (Best Actress Goya-winner for her role in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In) plays Lupe, an agoraphobic Spanish/Mexican former poprocker whose days of being wild are long behind her. Yet she’s trapped by memories of her youth, and especially by the death of her band mate and brother Diego, for which she blames herself. Worst of all, she has no connection to her teenage son, who in turn despises her. When her mother, stoic Paquita (Angélica Aragón) discovers she is dying, she determines to set things to right between her isolated daughter and grandson.

On the Day of the Dead, she asks for her departed son Diego’s help…and he responds. With a leap into the comic joys of magic realism, this debut from director Beatriz Sanchís wraps the everyday tragedy of death with charming humour in this exhilarating drama about evoking the dead and re-discovering love.

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Natalie Cristiani – director – Nicola Costantino: The Artefacta

Some weeks before her participation to the 2015 edition of HOT DOCS in Toronto, FRED meets Natalie Cristiani, who will be in Toronto for the first time as the Director of her first documentary NICOLA COSTANTINO: THE ARTEFACTA, after many years working as editor in documentaries and fiction films , both in Italy,where she was born, and Argentina, the country she is based in and chose to live her life.

Natalie Cristiani chooses not to to tell the life story of Nicola Costantino in a classic documentary form but as it was a diary, with Nicola’s voice to guide the audience through this tale in which reality and fiction merge.

NICOLA COSTANTINO: THE ARTEFACTA – Nicola Costantino is one of Latin America’s most controversial and admired visual artists. With often macabre imagery rooted in a violence that pervades the history of Argentina, she is known for provocative works, such as lifelike casts of animals, soap constructed out of fat liposuctioned from her own body and clothes and accessories made of male nipple casts.

Filmmaker Natalie Cristiani makes her directorial debut with this gorgeous cinematic tribute to Costantino, drawing audiences into her dark and mysterious work and the rigorous process of preparing to exhibit her latest work at the 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

As much as this film is a portrait of Costantino, it also uniquely pulls us into her art, making viewers into participants.

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Gabriele Salvatores – director – The Invisible Boy

Director Gabriele Salvatores talks about his film “The Invisible Boy”, one of the films nominated for the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award.

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 2015 during the Young Audience Film Day.

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

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Mark Noonan – filmmaker – You’re Ugly Too

Filmmaker Mark Noonan talks about his film “You’re Ugly Too”, which is nominated for this year’s EFA Young Audience Award.

You’re Ugly Too is the story of Stacey, a young girl who has lost both parents. Her uncle Will has been released from prison ahead of time so that he can look after her. He is her closest relative. Stacey regards Will with a great deal of scepticism – particularly since he refuses to tell her why he went to prison. The duo find a new home in a trailer park. But life is far from easy for those who live here.

Stacey also has a habit of suddenly falling asleep due to the narcolepsy from which she has recently begun to suffer. Will tries hard to be a good father to the unapproachable girl; it is imperative that he finds a job and prove himself in the world out there otherwise he will wind up in prison again. But his new situation places too many demands upon him; in a bid to dull his senses he hits the beer – and even Stacey’s medication. Stacey keeps on asking her uncle the same question, but Will cannot bring himself to give her an answer. When she finally discovers the truth, it comes as a big shock.

Laced with typically Irish humour, Mark Noonan’s feature debut takes a laconic look at how this uncle-and-niece duo gradually begin to grow on each other – and also demonstrates how honesty and trust go hand in hand.

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.

Go to the official website of the EFA Young Audience Award

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Keld Mathiesen – consultant – University College Northern Jutland

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Keld Mathiesen, consultant at the University College North Jutland – the Danish partner of the 2015 EFA Young Audience Award.

This is the second year that Denmark takes part in the Young Audience Award, and Young Audience Film Day – which will be on the 3rd ofn May 2015 – will be taking place in the city of Aalborg.

Keld Mathiesen talks with us about the importance of the promotion of more challenging cinema to a young audience and on top of talking about the Young Audience Award, we also discuss other different activities of film literacy and education promoted and run by the University College North Jutland.

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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Marion Döring – director – Young Audience Award

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Marion Döring, director of the Young Audience Award. Marion tells us exactly what the audience award is and how it works. On top of that, she discusses the importance of film literacy and the benefits of presenting a more challenging type of cinema to a young audience.

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 Young Audience Award website for more information.

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Jürgen Biesinger – producer – Young Audience Award

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Jürgen Biesinger, producer of the Young Audience Award. He tells us exactly what the Young Audience Award, how it works and how its has evolved throughout the year. We also discuss the importance of presenting a more challenging type of cinema and just how much technological advancements have facilitated the existence of the Young Audience Award.

The Young Audience Award is a new award presented for the fourth time in 2015. On 3 May – Young Audience Film Day – the three nominated films MY SKINNY SISTER, THE INVISIBLE BOY and YOU’RE UGLY TOO will be screened to 12-14-year-old audiences in the following cities: 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.

The young audience will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on on this website. Don’t miss it!

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

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Eat, Sleep, Die (originally, Äta sova dö) is the first feature film directed, in 2012, by Gabriela Pichler, a Swedish director born in 1980 to Bosnian and Austrian parents.

The film is a low-budget production, shot entirely with non-professional actors and in places in the real life of the director, including her home. The film had a sensational reception from the critics and the Swedish public. On the occasion of the Guldbaggen 2012, the Swedish national film awards, the film won four of the most important categories: best film, best director, best leading actress and best original screenplay. Due to the merit of its content and the issue dealt with, the film was even shown at a special session of the Swedish parliament. In contention for Critics’ Week at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, it won the audience award.  Sweden chose it as a candidate for the Oscars in the best foreign film category, although it did not reach the top five shortlist.

Gabriela Pichler is very familiar with the settings and the life stories described in her film. After a childhood and adolescence spent in a suburb of Stockholm, in 2003 she decided to leave her full-time job in a biscuit factory and enrolled at the Film School in Gothenburg. There, she made various short films: The most important was the one with which she graduated in 2008, Skrapsär (Scratches), the story of teenagers who venture into a derelict industrial area, perhaps to live or just to pass the time, always in search of love but, at he same time, without wanting to show their emotions too much, out of fear of being vulnerable. In 2009, the film won the Guldbaggen for the short film category and, in 2010, the Watch Audience Award at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, and was sent to various international festivals.

Presenting her film, Pichler explained what her creative intentions were: “To make a film about a part of society I have always loved but to which, sometimes, I am ashamed to belong. Sweden does not have an easy relationship with its image when dealing with the issue of immigration and political asylum. I want to be part of a process of redefining the national Swedish identity. The story of the leading character has very much to do with her identity and the way in which people see her, but it also shows the experience of so many young people in this period of economic crisis in Europe, where unemployment is very high and the internal contradictions of society are growing. Equally important is the fact that I also wanted to tackle a personal issue and show a type of relationship between father and daughter that I never saw on the screen when I was a girl.”

Due to her style of directing, many critics have compared Pichler to the Dardenne brothers, something that makes the Swedish director very proud since she considers them to be her inspiration. Among the other directors who have captivated and influenced her the most are Claire Denis, Wong Kar-Wai and Milos Forman.

Michele Marangi

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Film: Akadimia Platonos (2009)

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