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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maria Schrader, director of the film She Said.

At the 40th Torino Film Festival, Maria Schrader presents She Said, the film starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, about the New York Times investigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who, on Oct. 5, 2017 broke a page-one story that shook the entertainment industry and reverberated throughout the country: “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” Maria Schrader confirms that the main drive of the film has always been to make it about the journalists and and all the women who stood up to tell their stories.

She Said:  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. A testament to the incalculable importance of investigative journalism, She Said details the journey of reporters and editors engaged in the unrelenting pursuit of the truth and highlights the courage of survivors and witnesses who chose to come forward to stop an accused serial predator from committing further harm. Together, their commitment and fortitude sparked a global conversation, helped propel the #MeToo movement, and fueled a reckoning of the system that had enabled him. At its heart, She Said is an inspiring true story about people, many of them women, many of them mothers, who summoned the courage to speak out and seek justice, not just for themselves but for those in the future, both in the U.S. and around the globe. The film is a compelling, moving reminder of the power of individual people, armed with determination and grit, to, together, change the world.

The film costars Oscar ® nominee PATRICIA CLARKSON (Shutter Island, Pieces of April) as New York Times then assistant managing editor Rebecca Corbett, Emmy winner ANDRE BRAUGHER (Homicide: Life on the Street, Thief) as New York Times then executive editor Dean Baquet, Tony winner JENNIFER EHLE (Zero Dark Thirty, Pride and Prejudice) as former Miramax employee Laura Madden, with Academy Award ® nominee SAMANTHA MORTON (Minority Report, In America) as former Miramax employee Zelda Perkins and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee ASHLEY JUDD (Double Jeopardy, Bug) as herself.

She Said is directed by Emmy winner MARIA SCHRADER (I’m Your Man, Unorthodox limited series) from a screenplay by REBECCA LENKIEWICZ, screenwriter of the Oscar ® winning film Ida. The film is produced by Academy Award ® winners DEDE GARDNER and JEREMY KLEINER for Plan B Entertainment and is executive produced by Oscar ® winner.

She Said Production Information: BRAD PITT and LILA YACOUB and by Oscar ® nominee MEGAN ELLISON and SUE NAEGLE for Annapurna Pictures. The film’s artistic team includes director of photography NATASHA BRAIER (The Neon Demon), production designer MEREDITH LIPPINCOTT (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and costume designer BRITTANY LOAR (A Quiet Place Part II). The film is edited by HANSJÖRG WEIßBRICH (I’m Your Man) and the music is by three-time Oscar ® nominee and frequent Plan B collaborator NICHOLAS BRITELL (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Don’t Look Up).

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cyril Schäublin, director of the film Unrest.

After premiering at Berlinale last february, Unrest by Cyril Schäublin finally lands at the Turin Film Festival in Italy, the 40th edition, in the city where the director participated to the Torino Film Lab. Schäublin confirms the film to be a tale about anarchy and describe the genesis of it, starting from his family and grandma.

Unrest: New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest balance wheel swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch, getting exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Don Hall, Qui Nguyen and Roy Conli, director and producer of the film Strange World.

Academy Award director Don Hall along with co-director Qui Nguyen and producer Roy Conli is in Rome to present Strange World, a an ecologist fairytale about a three generations of men meeting halfway: a grandfather, a father and a son fighting to save their marvellous and living strange world.

Strange World: The feature film introduces a legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall, “‘Strange World’ is an original animated adventure/comedy about three generations of the Clade family who overcome their differences while exploring a strange, wondrous and oftentimes hostile world.” The voice cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal as Searcher Clade, a family man who finds himself out of his element on an unpredictable mission; Dennis Quaid as Searcher’s larger-than-life explorer father, Jaeger; Jaboukie Young-White as Searcher’s 16-year-old son, Ethan, who longs for adventure; Gabrielle Union as Meridian Clade, an accomplished pilot and Searcher’s partner in all things; and Lucy Liu as Callisto Mal, Avalonia’s fearless leader who spearheads the exploration into the strange world. “Strange World” is helmed by Don Hall (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Raya and the Last Dragon”) and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen (co-writer “Raya and the Last Dragon”), and produced by Roy Conli (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Tangled”).

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Andriy Khalpakhchi, general director of the Molodist International Film Festival.

Andriy Khalpakhchi, juror of the Official Competition at the Lecce European Film Festival, is the general director of the Molodist International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Ukraine. We met him right at the European Film Festival in Lecce after a meeting dedicated to Ukrainian cinema. We talked to him about the new edition of Molodist, which will be held in December, about the importance of film festivals in supporting the cinematography of countries affected by the war, the age-old question of the distribution of foreign films in Ukraine and some advice for discovering Ukrainian cinema and culture.

Andriy Khalpakhchi has been the head of the Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist” for many years. He was born on 4th March 1950, has a degree in bridge engineering and a PhD in technical sciences. Since 1989 he has dedicated his work to film, including the promotion of Ukrainian cinema internationally. He has been a member of numerous juries at international film festivals in Berlin, Moscow, Lagow, Oberhausen, Sochi, Bratislava, HantyMansiysk, Ischia, Karlovy Vary, Lecce and more. He is a member of the EFA and of the Ukrainian Film Academy. He was appointed a Cavalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), was awarded the Golden Cross of Hungary, he’s a member of the Order of the Italian Republic and of the Order “For achievements” (Ukraine). He is also author of many articles about cinema.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Eddie Tamir, artistic director of the Jewish International Film Festival.

This year’s program includes 52 features films, documentaries, and series. All of them, with just one exception, are Australian premieres and many are coming from international film festivals. Eddie delves into some highlights of the program and talks about JIFF and its capacity to connect past and present, and very distant geographic locations thanks to its universal stories that feel personal and relatable.

JIFF is running nationally in Australia in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, and it will close in Perth on 7 December.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Verena Paravel, director of the film The Fabric of the Human Body.

In the interview with Verena Paravel director with Lucien Castaing-Taylor of The Fabric Of The Human Body at Festival dei Popoli we talked about a place that experiences daily confrontation with pain, illness, death, the extreme experiences of the human condition. Gradually overcoming all limits, without ever losing its compositional and rhythmic rigor, we talked about the fact that the film shows us how human flesh can become an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of the other.

The Fabric Of The Human Body: A portrait of five hospitals in the northern districts of Paris, told through innovative medical imaging technologies, a means of creating a multifaceted portrait of the human body, the medical profession and the French capital. The room travels with an almost “Wisemanian” attitude moving through the corridors, passing from the clinics to the operating theaters to the morgue but then accompanies the probes, the scalpels, enters directly into the flesh, forces the eye to participate actively and extremely in the surgical operations and to overcome the limits of the visible and the bearable.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Jennifer Baichwal, director of the film Into The Weeds.

In the interview with Jennifer Baichwal director of Into The Weeds at Festival dei Popoli we talked about the climate emergency, uncontrolled urbanisation, air and sea pollution, an apocalypse that seems distant in time and space but which concerns us closely.

Into The Weeds: The film by Canadian giant Jennifer Baichwal – director of Watermark (2013) and Anthropocene (2018) – follows former caretaker Lewayne “Lee” Johnson and his fight against Monsanto, an agrochemical multinational acquired by the German pharmaceutical company Bayer in 2018: the man was the first to go to trial in a series of lawsuits involving the thousands of plaintiffs who argue that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide (and other diphosate-based herbicide Ranger Pro) caused them bad lymphomas. By gaining access to the pharmaceutical company’s internal digital correspondence, the long investigation for the trial that ended in 2018 demonstrated the illness of its executives who, although aware of the risks associated with the use of glyphosate, have always minimized its impact.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Jason Loftus, director of the film Eternal Spring.

In the Interview with Jason Loftus, director of Eternal Spring at Festival dei Popoli, we talked about a hilarious story of determination to speak out for political and religious freedoms, whatever the cost.

Eternal Spring: A breathtaking sequence shot shows a police round-up in a Chinese city. It is the incipit of the film, made through the 3D animation of the drawings by Daxiong, a Chinese artist drawn to the USA: it is the operation carried out in 2002 and aimed at arresting the followers of the Falun Gong religious movement. Shortly before, the group had managed to hack Chinese state television, broadcasting a message against the government’s persecution of members of the movement. Some will be arrested and die in prison, others will be able to escape and leave the country. Reconstructing the facts, alternating interviews and animation, Eternal Spring relies on Daxiong as an intercessor character who travels in search of survivors, to give shape and what has no visible evidence, but only memories that come to life through drawing and animation. A film that investigates the limits of representation, and the need for testimony in the face of any event of censorship and violence. Oscar nominated for Canada, a work that opens up new dimensions for the story of reality in its freest, most responsible and imaginative form.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Denis Dobrovoda, director of the film The Cathedral.

In the interview with Denis Dobrovoda director of The Cathedral at Festival dei Popoli we talked about the process of shooting and also about our search for the truth.

The Cathedral: Moved by an all-encompassing religious sentiment, Justo Gallego has dedicated 60 years of his life to a crazy and ambitious project: the construction of a cathedral in his town, Mejorada del Campo. Without any architectural training and without authorizations, almost always working alone with recycled materials, over the years he has built a grandiose and chaotic structure. Considered by his fellow citizens a madman and an exalted one, the former monk worked with self-denial on the project investing all his resources until, starting from the 2000s, the cathedral was recognized and appreciated by the art world, eventually becoming a ‘tourist attraction. The film uses materials made over several decades to tell the incredible story of Justo and the uncertainties about the future of the cathedral after his death.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Alice Lucy, leading actress of the film Mad Heidi.

In the interview with Alice Lucy, leading actress of Mad Heidi at Trieste Science and Fiction Film Festival we talked about the idea behind the movie and her challenges during the shooting.

Mad Heidi: From the producer of Iron Sky, an action adventure horror comedy and the first Swissploitation film ever made. In a dystopian Switzerland under the rule of a fascist cheese magnate, Heidi lives a simple life in the mountains protected by her grandfather. Soon her longing for personal freedom sparks a revolution after abduction by brutal government storm troopers. Escaping prison, and the roving eyes of muscle bound inmates, the naïve Alpine girl must face lactose intolerance, mutilation by Toblerone, Swiss Army knives out, fondue torture and cuckoo clock death traps, battling a human cheese-fuelled machinery of hate.

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