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Massimo Saidel, Coordinator, The Business Street – Rome Intenational Film Market – 17/21 October 2014.

Fred meets with Massimo Saidel who is in charge of coordinating Rome International Film Market – The Business Street for the second year with Francesca Palleschi and Markus Duffner. The International participation (including buyers, world sales agents and producers) to this 9th edition of TBS has already increased by a record +25% . The Market will take place  from October 17th to 21st 2014 at its tradition venue the Hotel Bernini Bristol in Via Veneto while the market screenings will be at the Multisala Barberini theatre, and the digital Video Library. Panels, workshop and conferences will take place at La Casa del Cinema. The Business Street will pay particular attention to cinematography, and to the film industries of Argentina and Brazil, the guest Countries of an Industry Focus that will bring to Rome a prestigious delegation of authors, producers, distributors and institutional representatives from the two countries, professionals who will present their most recent productions in screenings at the Film Market in Rome, thanks to the the support of ANCINE (Agência Nacional do Cinema – Brazil), APEX (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency)  Cinema do Brasil for Brazil, the INCAA (Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales) for Argentina and in collaboration with MiBACT and ICE-Agenzia. For the second year, the dialogue with China continues and gives life to China Day – act two, one of the activities featured in the “China Project”, organized by ANICA for MiBACT and MiSE as part of the “ANICA-Agenzia Internationalization Project”. This edition of TBS will also introduce a new inititative this year, Italian Film Boutique by Movie UP – Roma/Lazio Cinema Days for International Buyers’ since The Business Street is the ideal place to organize specifically dedicated screenings of the most recent Italian films open exclusively to international buyers.Another successful initiative started last year REMAKE IT

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Eskil Vogt, Director, Blind.

Festival Section: Dare.

Fred meets with veteran script writer Eskil Vogt, however here in London with his directorial debut BLIND, a film defying genres and narratives, starring  Ellen Dorrit Petersen.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Afia Nathaniel, Director, Dukhtar.

Festival Section: Journey.

Fred meets with Afia Nathaniel, here at London Film Festival with her debut feature, Dukhtar.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Rebecca Johnson, Writer/Director, Honeytrap

Festival section: Dare

Layla (Jessica Sula) is 15 and has been living in Trinidad. Returned to her estranged mother in Brixton, she is faced with settling into a new home and a new city with a fresh set of rules and codes. Unsupported by her mother and spitefully rejected by her female peers, she is drawn to the brooding Troy, who marks her as his ‘Trini princess’. When that fails, she takes solace in the friendship of Shaun, another admirer, but her desperate need for acceptance leads to a tragic betrayal of his kindness. Director Rebecca Johnson was inspired by real life cases and explores gang culture from a girl’s perspective. Moving beyond the headlines, Johnson gives us an intricately layered and rarely seen perspective – firmly located in the domain of a young girl becoming a woman in a hyper-masculine world. Sula’s performance here is flawless, perfectly capturing the agonising contradiction of Layla’s choice.

Reporter: Adam Farrell

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Ty Johnson, Producer, Austin To Boston

Festival section: Sonic

London’s Communion is a flourishing artist-led community of musicians and creatives who provide a platform for the most vibrant new songwriting talent through gigs, club nights, a record label and publishing. In spring of 2012, Communion gathered a collection of its artists and embarked upon a gloriously backwards tour which covers three thousand miles in two weeks, powered entirely by five old VW camper vans. The adventure starts after a final night at Austin’s SXSW Music Festival where the bands, Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff and Bear’s Den, pile into their rides and head northeast. They play everywhere, packing out tiny venues and wowing crowds with their delicate, haunting, rousing folk-tinged songs. But heavy rainstorms, multiple breakdowns, and cramped conditions remind them that to push through sometimes you need to pull together. Beautifully captured by director James Marcus Haney, featuring Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett with narration by Gill Landry this documentary is about a modern tour, done the old fashioned way.

Reporter: Adam Farrell

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Cutter Hodierne – Filmmaker – Fishing Without Nets

FRED’s Matt Micucci talks to filmmaker Cutter Hodierne about his film FISHING WITHOUT NETS, presented in the Debate section of the 58th BFI London Film Festival. He talks about telling the story of piracy from the point of view of the pirates, the dangers of filming on location in Somalia and why the whole production of this film and the short documentary he made that came before it was quite an adventurous experience.

FISHING WITHOUT NETS is a tense, muscular filmmaking that tells the gripping story of a young Somali fisherman reluctantly caught up in piracy.

Festival section: Debate

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Andy Seige, Writer/Director, Pascal Dawson, Producer/Actor, Beti And Amare

Festival section: Dare

Beti and Amare is an audacious, lower-than-micro-budget feature that blends romance, war, sci-fi and revenge film elements with a glorious level of invention. Set during the 1936 war between Italy and Ethiopia, the film sees Beti, a beautiful young woman, evade Mussolini’s advancing troops by travelling to the home of her elderly uncle, who lives alone in a cabin in the midst of a vast, barren landscape. The two settle down to a quiet existence together, but the menace of the war and local thugs are only just held at bay. When three men turn up at the property, hell bent on raping Beti, she is saved by an otherworldly presence, whom she names Amare. Reportedly delivered on a budget of under $7,000, Beti and Amare is a hugely impressive debut by Andy Siege and features a standout performance by Hiwot Asres as Beti. Quite simply, you won’t have seen anything quite like this.

Reporter: Adam Farrell

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Julius Avery, Writer/Director, Son of a Gun.

Festival Section: Official Competition.

From prison yard to gold mine, Son of a Gun is a heist thriller that swaggers and shines in the Australian sun, announcing director Julius Avery as a breakthrough talent with a knack for muscular action. The character of the young inmate ingénue has provided a rich seam in recent cinema, and fresh-faced JR (Thwaites) cuts a sympathetic figure as a rookie whose lack of guile, paired with a razor-sharp survival instinct, sees him drawn towards Brendan (McGregor) a father-figure whose paternal instincts have a poisonous edge. Out of the slammer and into the fire, JR is soon seduced by the spoils of mobster living, all fast cars and firearms, where thugs play chess and double-crosses are par for the course. Here he meets feisty Tasha, played by rising star Alicia Vikander (a century and hemisphere away from her other LFF role in Testament of Youth, p11), a street savvy beauty who has grown weary of being kept caged. Ewan McGregor positively scorches in a shark-like

Reporter: Adam Farrel.

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Alexia De Vito – NCN New Cinema Network

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Alexia De Vito who is in charge of coordinating Rome International Co-production Market NEW CINEMA NETWORK with Camilla Donghi and Annalisa Donnarumma. The Co-production market  along with Rome International Film Market THE BUSINESS STREET will take place this year from the 17th to the 21st of October during the 9th edition of Rome International Film Festival. 27 projects have been selected to be presented  and pitched to potential co-producers, distributors and world sales agent accredited at the Film Market. For the 5th year in a row, Eurimages Fund confirms its presence by assigning the EURIMAGES CO-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT AWARD and new awards have been introduced in this 2014 edition such as UNICEF Special mention to the Italian project that best represents children’s lives,dreams and stories. To the best emerging European producer will go the CUBIX AWARD presented by Cubix International. A new sub-section will be launched, its name is THE GREAT BEAUTIES – Le GRANDI BELLEZZE and it was Artistic Director Marco Mueller’s idea. Le Grandi Bellezze will be a showcase for film projects that promote Italy as a partner of Excellence and it includes 8 projects from 6 Countries: Brazil, China, Egypt, Italy, Luxembourg, USA.

Festival section: The Business Street – Rome International Film Market

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti

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Tetsuya Nakashima – Filmmaker – The World of Kanako (Kawaki)

FRED’s Matt Micucci talks to filmmaker Tetsuya Nakashima about his latest film THE WORLD OF KANAKO, presented in the Dare section of the 58th BFI London Film Festival. Tetsuya Nakashima talks to us about creating a film made of contrast, the use of humour in his unique hyper stylised and violent vision and the impact which it can have on a story, and he also tells us how his method of working with actors has changed with this production.

THE WORLD OF KANAKO is the story of a former detective Akikazu, who searches for his missing estranged daughter, Kanako, and soon learns that she has a mysterious secret life.

Festival section: Dare

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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