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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Benjamin Zeccola, CEO Palace Enterprises.

In this exclusive interview for FRED, Benjamin Zeccola talks about how one of the biggest national cinema’s networks in Australia managed the Covid crisis, keeping patrons safe and the business running.

Benjamin explains the popularity of European cinema in Australia and the success of more than 50 film festivals that take place in Australia every year.

To discover more about Palace Enterprises, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Neasa Hardiman, director of the film Sea Fever.

A conversation with Neasa Hardiman, director of Sea Fever, featured in this year’s edition of the European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film, presented in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. In this interview, Hardiman talks about the theme of responsibility that is explored within her film, her admiration for the communicative power of genre films, the challenge of shooting a feature almost entirely set on open water and more.

This interview was recorded for the Big FRED Tuesday.

Sea Fever: The crew of an Irish fishing trawler fall prey to a deadly sea creature in this gripping sci-fi thriller.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Małgorzata Goliszewska and Katarzyna Mateja, directors of the film Lessons of Love.

A conversation with Małgorzata Goliszewska and Katarzyna Mateja, directors of Lessons of Love. The film was selected as part of this year’s European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. This is a documentary about a woman who, in the last quarter of her life, decides to start life anew and leave her abusive husband.

This interview was recorded for the Big FRED Tuesday.

Lessons of Love:Charismatic and optimistic Jola is on the lookout for romance in her native Poland, but just how hard will it be to surrender to love for the first time at age 69?

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sandra Beerends, director of the film They Call Me Babu.

A conversation with Sandra Beerends, director of They Call Me Babu, selected for this year’s edition of the European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. In this interview, we talk about the “Babus,” little-known Indonesian nannies during Dutch colonial rule. We also talk about how Beerends constructed a narrative for this film based on her extensive research, and also how she used a tresure trove of archive material, a lot of which came from home movies shot at the time and stored at the EYE Film Museum in Amsterdam.

This interview was recorded for the Big FRED Tuesday.

They Call Me Babu: An Indonesian nanny tells her remarkable life story, which plays out against the backdrop of World War II and her country’s struggle for independence, in this ingenious archival documentary.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Marta Pulk, director of the film A Year Full of Drama.

Marta Pulk delves into the making of A year full of drama, exploring how being immersed in the arts and exposed to the fruition of the arts can immensely expand the world surrounding you or change your perspective of what you believe you can achieve.

A Year Full of Drama: The successful candidate is a small-town girl from a Russian-speaking family (a fact that puts her on the periphery of Estonian society). Alissija hasn’t been to the theatre since she was a small child, so she’s about to immerse herself in and document a world she knows nothing about. It’s not just the performing arts that are new to Alissija; she’ll also be moving to Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, and living away from family. As the months pass, she experiences everything from farce to the classics, and ends up questioning theatre’s place in the world, as well as her unique role. Alissija’s curious and courageous theatrical journey – 224 shows in 365 days (matinees included) – turns out to be a life-changing and true coming-of-age story.

To discover more about the fil A Year Full of Drama, click here.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Elli Toivoniemi, director and screenwriter of the film Force of Habit.

Director Elli Toivoniemi talks about the project that brought about Force of Habit, and the collaboration of seven women directors who wanted to focus on the often-invisible structural forces affecting men and women when it comes to gender equality and sexual harassment. The intention was to put the viewer in the shoes of sexually harassed women, to explore how it feels to live through those moments of harassment because that’s something that film can do: it can go to emotion rather than just observing.

Force of Habit: Force of Habit follows the stories of six different women at various stages of life, in both private and public spaces. From casual sexual harassment by strangers in restaurants; sinister workplace practices; inadequacies of the legal system; and to troublesome behaviour in the supposedly more progressive world of the arts, the film matter-of-factly catalogues habitual acts of discrimination. Sometimes, these incidents appear to be minor or commonplace. Sometimes devastating. They all convey how society appears to have gotten used to gender disparity. The overall effect of these women’s stories is powerfully indelible.

To discover more about the film Force of Habit, click here.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Barbara Ott, director and screenwriter of the film Kids run.

Director Barbara Ott takes us through the making of Kids run, exploring how she built the main character based on her childhood memories. She talks about the experience of casting and working with children and the pivotal role of gloomy locations in telling a very compelling story about a young father who frequently makes bad decisions but wants nothing more than a decent life for his family.

Kids run: Andi, a father of three young children, is always strapped for cash and ekes out a living as a  labourer. Facing eviction, Andi turns to his ex-girlfriend Sonja – the mother of his youngest child – and borrows a large sum of money to avert his eviction. When he loses his construction job, Andi is unable to pay back the loan, and Sonja insists that he pays up or she will stop him seeing his child. Desperate, Andi decides that an amateur boxing competition, and its cash prize, is his only salvation. Kinetically directed by Barbara Ott, Jannis Niewöhner is tremendously good as the aggressive, moody and impulsive Andi.

To discover more about the film Kids run, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Antoneta Kastrati, directors of the film Zana.

A conversation with Antoneta Kastrati, director of Zana, selected for the European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. Zana explores motherhood, the power of dreams and the horrors of war. It is also based on Kastrati’s own experiences as a war survivor – as the film takes place in Kosovo and revisits wartime trauma – and her work and research on the time. In this interview, we also talk about how her background in documentary filmmaking and journalism informs her approach in filmmaking, as well as the themes of the film, including tradition and superstition and how it shapes the role of women within society in Kosovo.

Zana: Mysticism and modernity clash in this tense family drama about a Kosovar Albanian woman’s struggles to overcome wartime trauma and conceive a child.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, directors of the film My Little Sister.

A conversation with Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat, whose film My Little Sister was selected for this year’s European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. The film revolves around twins — Lisa, a brilliant playwright who has given up writing and her actor brother, who is terminally ill. In this interview, Reymond and Chuat talk about various elements in the film, including that of the theatre, and their own experiences that helped shaped the movie. They also talk about their longstanding collaboration and how their own friendship is reflected in My Little Sister.

This interview was recorded for the Big FRED Tuesday.

My Little Sister: Two of Germany’s finest actors, Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger star as inseparable twins in this intricate family drama set in Berlin’s elite theatrical circles.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, Managing Director of the TorinoFilmLab.

A conversation with Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, managing director of the TorinoFilmLab. The TorinoFilmLab is a year-round, international film laboratory that supports talents from all over the world through training, development, production & distribution funding activities. In this interview, she talks about all of these various activities, including the new initiative supporting audience development. She also talk about how the TorinoFilmLab has been impacted by the current global pandemic and urged them to make a wider use of new technologies.

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