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Colm McAuliffe, Senior programmer and live music curator, Cork Film Festival.

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets COLM McAULIFFE, senior programmer and curator of the 59th Cork Film Festival who tells us about the short films programme at this year’s edition of the festival and also gives us an overview of the priceless opportunities the film festival offers filmmakers presenting their works here, not just with screenings but through industry and networking events. On top of that, he also tells us about a very special music event taking place at the festival that ambitiously attempts to re-imagine Jodorowski’s DUNE, re-imagines the startling imagery, ambition and sheer cinematic psychedelia of the great director’s doomed attempts to bring Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel to life with live accompaniment from Europe’s premier purveyors of sonic devilment Gnod.

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Frauke Finsterwalder, Filmmaker, Finsterworld.

FRED’s Matt Micucci chats with filmmaker Frauke Finsterwalder on her narrative feature film debut FINSTERWORLD, which is screening at the 59th Cork Film Festival. She talks to us about how for this film she built a whole microcosm, how she was influenced by fairytales and her use of dark comedy to deal with some dark and intense themes and issues.

This is the story of a number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.

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Partick Ryan, Filmmaker – Emma Eliza Regan and Emma Willis, Actresses – Darkness On the Edge of Town

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Patrick Ryan and actresses Emma Eliza Regan and Emma Willis to talk about their feature DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, moments after its screening at the 59th Cork Film Festival.

They talk about shooting a modern western in County Kerry with an extremely limited budget, the Shakespearean influences, and how working with a small crew turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

DARKNESS OF THE EDGE OF TOWN is the story of a troubled teenage sharpshooter Cleo (Emma Eliza Regan), who strives to avenge the death of her estranged elder sister after she is found murdered in a public bathroom. However, unknown to Cleo, the culprit is her best friend – and one and only friend – Robin (Emma Willis). Patrick Ryan’s film is quite unlike other Irish productions – independent and mainstream – and even dares to place female characters as the leading characters in a usually masculine narrative genre to great effect.

Festival section: 59th Cork Film Festival – Features

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Celyn Jones – Actor and co-writer – Set Fire to the Stars

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets CELYN JONES, actor and co-writer of the film SET FIRE TO THE STARS, in which he performs the role of the great poet Dylan Thomas, that had its Irish premiere at the 58th Cork Film Festival. Celyn tells us about how the process of painting a more human picture of Dylan Thomas, how the collaboration with director Andy Goddard began, how he was able to share such great chemistry on screen with co-star Elijah Wood and even shares his views on the need for the film industry to be a collaborative one.

Festival section: 59th Cork Film Festival – Features

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Ana Ularu, Simon Merrells, Actors, Index Zero.

Festival Section: Prospettive Italia.

FRED meets actors Ana Ularu and Simon Merrells who are in Rome for the film premiere of INDEX ZERO at the 9th edition of Rome International Film Festival in the Prospettive Italia Section. The film which is the first feature film by italian director Lorenzo Sportiello, is the first italian sci-fi film to be made after 17 years and it stars Ana and Simon as a couple struggling to get into the “United States of Europe” where the sustainability index is deciding whether a person can fit the standards of the nation productivity and can therefore survive or be expelled and abandoned to die in the abandoned lands of a sort of distopic world.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Darya Ekamasova, Actress, Angels of Revolution.

Festival Section: Cinema D’oggi.

On the occasion of her film ANGELS OF REVOLUTION premiering at the 9th edition of Rome International Film Festival in the Cinema D’oggi Section, actress DARYA EKAMASOVA talks about her experience on the set with director Aleksej Fedorchenko in her third film with him and she tells FRED about the unique style Director Fedorchenko has in directing and guiding his actors.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Mads Mikkelsen – Programmer – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

Description: FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews MADS MIKKELSEN, programmer of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, which this year will be hitting its 11th edition. Mads talks to us about the greater vision of the festival and how it represents this exciting and constantly innovative form of filmmaking. He also tells us what films he is particularly excited about having as part of this year’s programme and about the industry activities that will be taking place at it. The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival runs from the 6th to the 16th of November.

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Eddie Tamir, Festival Director, Sydney Jewish Film Festival.

The cream of the new crop of Israeli and Jewish-themed films.

Reporter: Cristiana Palmieri.

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Diamara Parodi Delfino, Project manager, SHORT FOOD MOVIE project for EXPO MILANO 2015.

On Friday October 17th Rome International Film Festival dedicated a special event tot he project SHORT FOOD MOVIE – Feed your mind Film Your Planet, promoted by the  Fondazione Cinema per Roma and by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia for Expo Milano 2015. Chiara Nicoletti meets project manager Diamara Parodi Delfino to talk about the project in depth.

The goal of Short Food Movie is to use the tools offered by new technologies to create social awareness on the themes explored by the Universal Exposition in Milan in 2015. Authors and videomakers from around the world can participate in the project and submit thier short films until March 10, 2015 by visiting www.shortfoodmovie.expo2015.org

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Anton Corbijn and Willem Dafoe – Director and Actor – A Most Wanted Man

A Most Wanted Man has been the last film SPECIAL EVENT to be screened at the 9° edition of Rome International Film Festival as an Homage to Philip Seymour Hoffman. Chiara Nicoletti met Director Anton Corbijn and actor Willem Dafoe. A MOST WANTED MAN  is the last film Philip Seymour Hoffman worked on and its screening was highly expected by the Roma FF audience. Based on the novel of the same name by Jon Le Carré, the film is both a spy story and a political action thriller played by an amazing and incredible cast that includes, besides Hoffman and Dafoe,  Rachel McAdams, Daniel Bruhl and Nina Hoss.

Festival section: Special Event

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti

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