FRED Film Radio - English Channel

Michael Radford meets Chiara Nicoletti right after his cinema master class to the audience and students in the Teatro Petruzzelli. The director is in BARI for the 5th edition of Bari International Film Festival to receive the FELLINI AWARD FOR CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE. Radford gives us some insights on his films and his way of directing actors and reveals some anecdotes about the shooting of IL POSTINO with the great Massimo Troisi and THE MERCHANT OF VENICE with his very good friend Al Pacino. We discover more about his two new upcoming projects ELSA & FRED with Shirley Maclaine and Christopher Plummer and un untitled project set at the borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Lech Majewski, Director, Field of Dogs – Onirica.

Festival Section: Panorama Internazionale.

Polish artist,poet, composer, painter, writer, producer and director Lech Majewski, after revolutioning the way Art has been represented through cinema, this time has decided to explore the world of La DIVINA COMMEDIA by Dante Alighieri. In Bari to present the italian release of the fim Majewski tells FRED how he came up with the idea of choosing Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece as the protagonist’s dreamlike, oniric shelter. The parallelism between the personal tragedy in the life of the protagonist and the public tragedy in a Poland giving in to natural catastrophes, flooding and the explosion of the presidential airplane brings the audience into a visionary trip through dreams and realism.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Rani Massalha, Director, Giraffada.

Festival Section: Panorama Internazionale.

Fred meets with Rani Massalha on the occasion of the Italian premiere of his first feature film GIRAFFADA competing in the Panorama Internazionale at the 5th edition of the BIFEST – Bari International Film Festival. Massalha chooses to portray the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by narrating the love story between two giraffes in a Palestinian zoo. However, the film’s main focus is to talk about the father-son relationship, in the film the zoo Veterinarian Yacine and his son Ziad played respectively by Saleh Bakri and Ahmad Batra. The film points out that every kid should have the right to act as a kid and be treated as one whatever the social and political situation in the background is. Ziad, this stubborn and sometimes annoying child, will be the reason why his father will finally find the strength to face adversities and fight the conflict, even if it’s only to save a female giraffe and her family.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Anna Margarita Albelo (Director, co-writer, co-producer and actress), Guinevere Turner (Actress), Who’s Afraid of Vagina Wolf?.

Festival Section: Bodies.

Filmmaker Anna Margarita Albelo and actress Guinevere Turner talk to FRED about the film WHO’S AFRAID OF VAGINA WOLF?, from the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival.

Anna Margarita Albelo (Hooters) returns to our screens with this wonderful semi-autobiographical offering about a filmmaker named Anna who at 40 is still single and living in her friend’s garage. Flanked by best friends (Guinevere Turner and True Blood’s Carrie Preston), Anna is set move on from failing to get film grants and dancing about in a vagina costume. She is finally forced out of her rut when she meets the sexy post-feminist Katia, and offers her the lead in her new movie to impress her, but then has to speed-write a script for her to star in and turns for inspiration to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Funny, brutally honest and fabulously silly.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Constanze Knoche and Leis Bagdach, director and screenwriter – Visitors

Festival section: Generation clash

Family ties in a vivid depiction of contemporary German society

Reporter: Cristiana Palmieri

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Nadeshda Brennicke, Actress, Banklady.

Festival Section: German Currents.

Nadeshda Brennicke graduated from the Zinner Schauspielschule in Munich in the early 1990s. It did not take long before she starring in a range of successful films such as Bob Swaim’s Le Doigt de Dieu (1997) and Dominik Graf’s Hotte Im Paradies (2003). The latter film as well as the production Silikon Walli (2002) gained her Deutscher Fernsehpreis nominations. She was awarded the prestigious Grimme-Preis for her role in Denis Gansel’s The Phantom (2000), and recently received the Silver Hugo for Best Actress in Banklady (2014) at the Chicago International Film Festival. We will be presenting Nadeshda Brennicke’s latest movie Banklady (our Opening Night Film in Sydney and in Melbourne) as well as a retrospective evening with The Phantom and Tattoo.

Reporter: Cristiana Palmieri.

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Shaun Kadlec, Co-director and co-producer, Born This Way.

Festival Section: Minds.

FRED meets filmmaker Shaun Kadlec at the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. Shaun directed and produced the documentary BORN THIS WAY along with Deb Tullmann.

At a time when  rights around the world are being stripped away, it’s more important than ever to highlight stories from places that punish you for being who you are. An excellent documentary about prejudice against the lesbian and gay community in Cameroon, Born this Way does exactly that. Filming with secret cameras and under constant threat of being discovered and deported, Kadlec and Tullmann follow four brave gay and lesbian Cameroonians who discuss candidly the difficulty of being queer in a country where homosexuality is illegal. While the reality of life is bleak, the film shows there is hope for LGBT people, whether it is inside the sanctuary that is ‘Alternatives Cameroun’, the country’s first LGBT centre, or at the hands of the amazing human rights lawyer Alice Nkom who is fighting to protect LGBT rights. A timely and important documentary.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Jen McGowan – Director – Kelly & Cal

Festival section: Narrative Spotlight

Director Jen McGowan talks to FRED about bringing to life Amy Lowe Starbin’s wonderful script for “Kelly and Cal”, a film about a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, who is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he’s been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it’s the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.

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Jonny Weston – Actor – Kelly & Cal

Festival section: Narrative Spotligh

Actor Jonny Weston talks to FRED about his work with the director Jen McGowan and the challenges of playing Cal in the film “Kelly and Cal”.

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Juliette Lewis – Actress – Kelly & Cal

Festival section: Narrative Spotlight

Description: Juliette Lewis talks to FRED about her challenging role in the indie film “Kelly and Cal” as well as composing some of the songs featured in the soundtrack. She also shares her thoughts about her experience working with female directors. And if she hadn’t taken up acting as a career, what would she be do? The answer to this was surprising…

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