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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Daniel Sivan, director of the film Dirty Tricks.

A conversation with Daniel Sivan, director of Dirty Tricks, a new documentary that premiered at this year’s Docaviv. The documentary explores a recent huge scandal in the world of competitive bridge. Here, Sivan talks about how he came across his story, as well as what it is that fascinated him about the world of competitive bridge, once it opened its doors to him, and why working on this project was so refreshing for him on a personal and artistic level.

Dirty Tricks: Bridge is the most popular card game in history, enjoyed by millions of senior citizens all around the world. It is also a world of cutthroat competition, with elite players sponsored by billionaires who go toe-to-toe in ruthless high stakes tournaments. The world’s best player is Lotan Fisher, who by the age of 26 became “The Michael Jordan of Bridge”. He was unstoppable, until his archnemesis, Boye Brogeland accused him of cheating, throughout his whole career. Lotan vehemently denies the accusation, which quickly spirals in a massive controversy threatening to bring down the entire competitive Bridge world. With millions of dollars and their lucrative careers at stake, the truth behind one of the world’s most bizarre blood feuds will be revealed in a true-crime comedy documentary.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Peter Schernhuber, co-artistic director of the Diagonale.

The Diagonale, the annual showcase of Austrian cinema, returned in Graz this year and we talked about it with its co-artistic director Peter Schernhuber. In this interview, we bit about this year’s program, some of its main winners and dedicated strands, including one spotlighting the works of Jessica Hausner. We also discuss some of the defining traits of Austrian cinema at large and what makes Graz such a great place for a festival like the Diagonale.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sara Mesfer, director of the film The Girls Who Burned the Night.

Director Sara Mesfer talks about The Girls Who Burned the Night, which has been presented at various film festivals and is also screening at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. She talks about its store, the challenge of casting the role and the importance of the specific location in which it is set. The conversation also touches on the current cinematic movement of Saudi Arabia and her personal motivations in making movies.

The Girls Who Burned the Night : traces two sisters, Salsabeel and Wassan on an engagement night, after one of them was denied to go to the nearby grocery store. The narrative follows the post-rejection agony of the two sisters, as they are pushed to discover themselves and each other in order to survive some unexpected and harsh realities.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Rocío Bernabé Caro, Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany).

Respeakers, velotypists, live captioners and real-time subtitlers, speech-to-text reporters and interpreters, and all related professionals are invited to this one-day event on real-time intralingual subtitling. Live Text Access (LTA) is an EU funded project that tackles the current need of an open-source certified training program with harmonised competence-based modules and quantified credits for higher educational (ECTS) and vocational (ECVETS) training.At this last event, LTA partners will report about the final stage of the project and give an overview about the achievements so far. They will present the elaborated materials, and outline the importance of the quality assessment. The LTA certificate will be explained and an overview of the developments in the field will be provided. Furthermore, a live speech-to-text competition will be part of the event. The program also includes speeches that will approach the view of the end-users of speech-to-text-services. And during the networking sessions, participants will have the opportunity to exchange their views and ideas on current developments. A live speech-to-text competition will take place too!

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Rocío Bernabé Caro:  MA in Translation (UGR) and MA in Accessible Technologies (UNIR), deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany) and tenured lecturer at the SDI University of Applied Languages. She has worked as a specialized staff translator for almost twenty years and has ten years of teaching experience. As former Head of Quality Management and of the Lecturer Training Program at SDI, she implemented a Learner Centred Quality Management System (LQW) as well as a training program for lecturers. Furthermore, she was various years in charge of the didactic support and lecturer’s training of the Moodle-E-Learning-Platform of the SDI München. Her interest on accessibility and technology motivated her to pursue a MA degree in Accessible Technologies, where she dedicated her thesis to studying the User Centred Design approach of Easy-to-Read digital projects. An article on this topic will be published in December in La Revista Española de Discapacidad. Currently, her work is focused on accessibility in the field of translation. She is also a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jonathan Rosen, visual artist and creative director.

A chat with New York City-based visual artist and creative director Jonathan Rosen about his NFT debut with back-to-back exhibitions in London and New York City. Rosen talks about how with this project, he sought to bring the digital space, represented by NFTs, into our physical world. He also talks about exploring the theme of fame and the interactive nature of his artworks. In addition, to commemorate pride, Rosen has collaborated with Nasdaq’s Purpose Initiative and Broadway Cares for a charity auction, which you can find out more about here. 

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Carolina Martins, assistant producer of the 4th International Conference  4th on Stereo & Immersive Media.

A conversation with Carolina Martins, S&I Media Assistant Producer, about the 4th International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media in Lisbon, Portugal, taking place on June 11-12 and June 18-19 online this year. The conference aims to bring together the research fields of photography, sound and cinema, considering their historical and current relationships with expanded and immersive environments. In this interview, Martins talks about this year’s program, the biggest in the conference’s history, and some of its keynote speakers.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Bettina Kinski, Festival Curator of German Film Festival in Sydney.

The Festival curator Bettina Kinski explores the line-up of this year’s festival, with 27 Australian premieres, box office hits and award-winning dramas straight from this year’s Berlinale. A celebration of German culture and filmmaking, it includes productions from neighbouring Austria, showcasing the creativity and diversity of the German language cinema.

From thrillers and documentaries, to feel-good comedies, this year’s films will amuse, inspire and entertain.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Kateryna Gornostai, director of the film Stop-Zemlia.

A conversation with Kateryna Gornostai, director of Stop-Zemlia, the Crystal Bear-winning film from this year’s Generation 14plus strand at the Berlinale. The film depicts the lives of a class of adolescents in contemporary-times Ukraine. In this film, Gornostai shares the interesting process that helped the film come to like and her documentary roots, which contributed to the shaping of Stop-Zemlia, among other things.

Stop-Zemlia: It‘s Masha, Yana and Senia‘s last but one year of high school. Among the thriving pot plants in the classroom and to the sound effects of a Biology lesson about physical signs of stress, the young protagonists grapple with themselves and with one another. 16-year-old Masha is the quiet center of Kateryna Gornostai’s feature debut. Steering clear of both simplified narratives and overly simplistic psychology, the film depicts her as introverted, sensitive and in love with Sasha, another classmate whose aloofness and passivity she finds a perpetual challenge. When Masha is dancing alone in her room at night, high above the rooftops of a city somewhere in the Ukraine, nothing about it feels staged. Rather, it is an invocation of the moment, of genuine emotion – and of pain.

To discover more about the 71st edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Olamide Ojegbenro, director of the Chroma International Film Festival.

A conversation with Olamide Ojegbenro, director of the Chroma International Film Festival, set to run this September in Dublin, Ireland. This is the first international BIPOC film festival in Ireland, dedicated to celebrating and amplifying the voices of both emerging and established filmmakers from diverse backgrounds. Ojegbenro talks about the significance of running a festival like this in Ireland and shares details on how films can be submitted for its inaugural edition.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Leena Pasanen, director of the Biografilm Festival.

A conversation with Leena Pasanen, director of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy. This is an annual showcase of biographical films from different parts of the world. This year, the Biografilm Festival will run for the 17th time on June 4-14. As well as speaking about this year’s edition and some of its highlights, we also take this opportunity to ask Pasanen how last year’s edition went, as the Biografilm Festival became the first film festival in Italy to move entirely online in response to te coronavirus pandemic.

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