FRED Film Radio - English Channel

Aditya Vikram Sengupta, Director, Labour of Love

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta who talks about LABOUR OF LOVE from the Venice Days section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. This is a film that tells a love story in the midst of recessionary times. What makes the feature particularly interesting is that it virtually has no dialogue and is able to become an interactive and meditative experience through its use of visuals sound and music that capture a wonderfully captivating essence of the everyday life.

Festival Section: Venice Days

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Timm Kröger, Director, Zerrumpelt Herz (The Council of Birds).

Festival Section: Venice Critics Week

Fred meets with Timm Kröger, director of the lyrical Zerrumpelt Herz (The Council of Birds), here in Venice with the International Critics’ Week selection.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti

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Chaitanya Tamhane, Writer/Director, Court.

Festival Section: Horizons

Chaitanya Tamhane’s first feature film COURT is in competition in the Horizons/Orizzonti section of this year’s 71st Venice Film Festival.

Set in Mumbai, the film challenges both the ideologies and absurdities of the judicial system. This year, the festival is live streaming the film after its premiere on sala web so if the interview peaks your interest, you can find the details for watching the movie here: https://boxoffice.festivalscope.com/focus/court

FRED’s Amanny Mohamed caught up with the writer/director to get his take on being selected for the Venice film festival and find out more about his first movie.

Reporter:  Amanny Mohamed

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Duane Hopkins, Writer/Director, Bypass.

Festival Section: Horizons

Brit Writer/Director Duane Hopkins brings us his second feature BYPASS selected in competiton in the Horizons section of this year’s Venice film festival.

George McKay plays the troubled “Tim” who’s essentially a good kid but needs to delve into the darker side of society to survive and look after his younger sister.

FRED’s Amanny Mohamed caught up with Duane Hopkins to talk about McKay’s incredible performance and the unique style of the movie.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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Alessandra Speciale, Consultant for Arab & African for Venice film programming committee, Final Cut initiative.

Alessandra Speciale takes time out of her busy schedule to talk to FRED about scouting for Arabic and African films to present to the Venice film selection committee. She is also managing THE FINAL CUT initiative whereby work-in-progress films are selected to showcase at the film market to help obtain the funds necessary to complete the process of post-production.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Guillermo Arriaga (Directors), Bahman Ghobadi (Directors), Mira Nair (Directors), Alex de la Iglesia(Directors) , Lukas Akoskin (Producers), Alex Garcia, (Producers), Words with God.

Festival Section: Out of competition.

Fred meets with some of the minds behind the collective film Words with Gods, an introspective study about faith, religion and mankind today.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Kase Ryo, Kim Eiusung, Actors, Hill of Freedom.

Festival Section: Orizzonti.

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Kase Ryo and Kim Eiusung, actors in the film HILL OF FREEDOM by Hong Sangsoo presented in the Orizzonti section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. They talk about the original approach that was used in making the film, what it was like to work with Sangsoo and also how they connected on a personal level with the feature but also with their own individual character.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Lucas Rosant, Consultant, European Gap Financing.

Here’s a man “in-the-know” – Lucas Rosant is part of a new initiative in European Gap financing which helps productions raise the last 30% of their budget.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Kathryn Reed Altman (Wife of director Robert Altman), Michael Murphy (Actor), Altman.

Festival Section: Venice Classics

ALTMAN is a charming and wonderfully crafted documentary by Ron Mann detailing the professional and personal life of one of America’s greatest auteurs, Robert Altman. FRED’s Amanny Mohamed caught up with the charismatic wife of Robert Altman, Kathryn Reed Altman, and one of Altman’s most prolific actors and good friend Michael Murphy.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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One of ‘the’ most important people at the festival joins FRED and chats to Amanny Mohamed about being president of the Venice Days jury and watching films at this year’s festival.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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