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Alex Traila – Transilvania International Film Festival / Steppenwolf Film

Alex Traila, one of the members of the managing team on “First Cut Lab” from When East Meets West, tells us all about this new tool, which aims to help selected projects optimize in order to give their film a stronger and longer lasting impact on their audience.

“First Cut Lab” is a programme designed for long feature films in editing phase from Eastern Europe and Italy. Selected producer/director teams will receive expert feedback from top festival programmers, sales agents, creative producers and tailor-made advice from a consulting editor. The main goal is to foster the artistic potential of the selected rough cuts and, at the same time, to increase the sales, festival and circulation potential of the compteled films.

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Alessandro Gropplero – Head of When East Meets West co-production market

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti talks to Alessandro Gropplero, head of When East meets West, the co-production market taking place in Trieste from January 18th to the 20th, 2015.

After a first focus on the French film industry in 2011, the Nordic countries in 2012, the German speaking countries in 2013 and Benelux in 2014, the 5th upcoming edition will focus on the English speaking countries UK, Ireland and North America and so it will expand beyond the European borders. 22 projects have been selected to be pitched and presented to an audience of industry professionals, potential co-producers, distributors, sales agents and decision makers. 30 different countries, 150 international decision makers, more than 300 registered participants: these are the figures of the fifth edition of When East Meets West, the co-production forum for Eastern and Western Europe starting on Monday 19th of January in Trieste. Along with 22 projects in development selected for the pitching, out of the record number of 285 submissions, When East Meets West launches two new initiatives dedicated to film in post-production stage.

Last Stop Trieste (LST) is a work in progress section for creative documentaries organized in collaboration with the Trieste Film Festival. 4 selected rough cuts will be screened to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors and will compete for the HBO Europe Award, prize of the value of 1.000 EUR delivered by an international jury composed by Catherine Le Clef (CAT&Docs), Leena Pasanen (Dok Liepzig) and Claudia Schreiner (MDR) First Cut Lab (FCL) is a programme designed for long feature fiction films in editing phase.

3 selected producer/director teams will receive expert feedback from 10 international experts and tailor-made advice from a consulting editor. The main goal is to foster the artistic, sales and festival potential of the completed films. FCL is coordinated by Matthieu Darras (TorinoFilmLab) and Alex Traila (Transilvania IFF), and for this pilot edition has team up with Flow Post Production, Belgian based one-stop-shop facility that will award a free DCP to all selected projects. The two day event will include panels, case studies, meetings and, for the first time, the live stream event If you don’t put your film on the internet, someone else will, organized thanks to cooperation between EAVE and WEMW.

WEMW is organized by Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund together with the Trieste Film Festival, in collaboration with EAVE, Maia workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy MEDIA, Eurimages and with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, Direzione Generale per il Cinema – MiBACT, CEI (Central European Initiative), Confartigianato Udine and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

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Marit van den Elshout – Director – CineMart

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Marit van den Elshout, in preperation for a new intense and riveting edition of the CineMart. We talk with her about the history of the market at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, which in this edition of the festival reaches its 32nd year. We also talk the identity of this co-production market, which was originally the first of its kind, and what it offers filmmakers and industry representatives. We talk about the selection process and the award that the titles selected qualify for.

The first co-production market of its kind, CineMart offers filmmakers the opportunity to launch their ideas to the international film industry and to find the right connections to get their projects financed. Launching about 25 new projects in need of additional financing each year, CineMart also heralds an important start of the ‘film year’. The 32nd edition of CineMart will take place from 25 January till 28 January 2015.

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Kaveh Daneshmand – Artistic Director – Festival of Iranian Films, Prague

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Kaveh Daneshmand, artistic director of the 4th edition of the Festival of Iranian Films in Prague, Czech Republic. This year, the festival centered its program around the theme of “rebels of Iranian cinema”, and aimed to show a variety of Iranian cinema full of ambitious whether in exploring daring themes or in being aware of cinema and taking risks in their form of filmmaking.

Kaveh tells us more about the chosen theme, and tells us a little bit more about some of the titles that were presented in the program. He also tells us about his opinions on the issues with censorship and how it affects filmmaking from Iran and gives us a clear sign that this festival is only destined to grow with its future editions.

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Rutger Wolfson – Festival Director – International Film Festival Rotterdam

As we approach a new edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, arguably the year’s first important film festival in Europe, we chat with its festival Rutger Wolfson who talks with us about what we can expect from this year’s IFFR, which will be the 44th in its history and also his last as its festival director.

He tells us about the emphasis placed on helping filmmakers finding an audience through fascinating industry events, the new thematic programmes that will make up the bulk of the programming but also reflects upon the different ways in which the festival has innovated and renovated itself throughout the years and more specifically throughout the years in which he filled the role of its director.

One of the largest public film events in the world, IFFR actively supports independent filmmaking from around the globe and is a recognized platform in Europe for launching new films and talent.

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Ali Mosaffa – Filmmaker and actor – The Last Step

Iranian filmmaker Ali Mosaffa returned behind the camera in his first directorial feature after his 2005 debut “Portrait of a Lady Far Away” with his latest film “The Last Step” – which after an award winning run in the festival circuit – was shown at the 4th edition of the Festival of Iranian Film in Prague.

We chat with Ali about his influences from James Joyce’s story “The Dead” and Leo Tolstoy and his story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” in his own narrative. We also ask him about the casting about his real life wife and Iranian acting superstar Leila Hatami – who is superb in the film – and how their real life relationship affected the film. On top of that, we ask him whether being an actor of international fame helped him bring the film to the screen and get his project financed.

A poet meditation of love and death in contemporary Tehran, “The Last Step” is a compelling tale of an Iranian couple before, during and after the husband’s death. Drifting through space and time and living the peculiar moments of his married life once again, the dead husband becomes the deceitful narrator and the disappointed witness to an old love triangle.

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This year’s recipient of Courmayeur Noir in Festival’s Raymond Chandler Award – Jeffery Deaver talks to Chiara Nicoletti about FEAR and how it changes with time and age. As announced during his meeting with the Noir Fest audience, Deaver remarks on the fact that he wouldn’t want to get involved in the scriptwriting process, not even when it would be working on the adaptation of his books to the big screen. When asked about what characteristics make a serial killer a remarkable one, Deaver reveals and introduces us to a difference between the Serial Killer and the Multiple offender. The film format is not something Jeffery Deaver is interested in contributing at but, when it comes to TV Series, his interest in writing, participating and seeing his books turned into a TV show, is alive and vivid. The author has presented to the italian audience his new book THE SKIN COLLECTOR.

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On Wednesday at noon President Schulz announced the winner of the European Parliament’s 2014 LUX Prize for cinema at a ceremony in the Chamber.

Source: European Parliament/News.

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Igor Marković – Organizer Human Rights Film Festival – All things ablaze / The Look of Silence / Tigers

Igor Mrković explains how films are chosen in this 12th edition of the HRFF and suggests his personal top three: All things ablaze, The Look of Silence, Tigers. He also speaks about the influence of the festival on the Croatian society and the reactions of the public.

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Dennis Kelly – Scriptwriter – Black sea

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Dennis Kelly, scriptwriter of the new film by Kevin MacDonald BLACK SEA which is in competition at the 24th edition of Courmayeur Noir in Festival and will be distributed in Italy by Notorius Pictures. After writing a musical (Matilda The Musical), writing for television (Pulling, UTOPIA) and theatre, Kelly fulfilled MacDonald’s desire of setting a story in a submarine by writing an intense, tense and rich adventure thriller that sees Jude Law starring as a submarine captain searching for gold in the depths of the Black Sea.

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