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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jason Segel, director, actor and producer of new Amazon Prime Video series Dispatches from Elsewhere.

It reminds us the atmosphere of the Wizard of Oz, a modern journey through a magical world within ours, Dispatches from Elsewhere, the anthology series written, directed, produced and starred by Jason Segel, presented at the latest Berlinale 2020 and now finally on Amazon Prime Video in UK and Italy. Four characters guided by the face and voice of Richard E-Grant introducing them to the possibility of a change from what has been missing in their lives. Jason Segel describes wanting to make something of his own, exploring different creative opportunities after the fortunate decade in company of How I Met your Mother success and the romantic comedies that followed. Turning forty meant a creative challenge, creating a series that talks magically to its audience and take its hand through an unexpected journey.

Dispatches From Elsewhere is available on Amazon Prime Video from June 15th.

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Dispatches From Elsewhere is an enthralling new anthology series centered around four ordinary people who feel there’s something missing in their lives, but they can’t quite put their finger on what it is. This diverse foursome is brought together by chance – or perhaps it’s by design – when they stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. As they begin to accept the mysterious ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ challenges, they come to find that the mystery winds deeper than they imagined, and their eyes are opened to a world of possibility and magic.

To discover more about Dispatches From Elsewhere, click here.

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

A conversation with Leena Pasanen, director of Bologna’s Biografilm Festival, which runs on June 5-15. This year marks the first year of Pasanen at the helm of the annual event. And she has had her hands full, making sure everything runs smoothly as Biografilm pioneers its first digital edition, in response to the current global pandemic. In this interview, we ask her how it will function and some of the challenges they were faced with in setting it up. Also, we ask her about some of the films in the selection, and to highlight a few titles from the program.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jay Weissberg, director of Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival.

Jay Weissberg – film critic for Variety and director of Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival – talks about the silent film festival’s decision to go online later this year in response to the current global pandemic. The festival will run on October 3-10, Weissberg talks about whether this was a difficult decision to take, as well as whether he believes this will somehow benefit a the global discourse on film preservation. In the first part of our chat, he also shares his thoughts with us on the current situation and how cinema has been impacted in several ways.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Christoph Schwarz, director of the film The Best City Is No City at All.

A conversation with director Christoph Schwarz, whose short film The Best City Is No City at All won Best Austrian Film at this year’s Vienna Shorts. In this interview, Schwarz talks about his motivation for making this film – a 15-minute essay movie about an urban expansion area.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jerome Paillard, director of Cannes Film Market.

Jerome Paillard talks with Angelo Acerbi about the new unedited and original edition on line of the Cannes Film Market 2020: its purposes and goals, the technical aspects, the attractiveness to potential new attendees and the issue of time zones. A new exciting experience and a challenging one as well.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Nashen Moodley, director of the Sydney Film Festival.

Australia’s premier international film festival returns this year – virtually. “Since the 66th Sydney Film Festival in 2019, everything and nothing has changed. We aren’t together in a dark cinema sharing new ideas and worlds – but film is still where we look for them. So, Sydney Film Festival is back this year with a virtual program available to all homes across Australia.” (Nashen Moodley, Director)

Nashen Moodley talks about the difficult decision he took in March when the pandemic crisis hit to cancel the festival and why he revisited that decision in May and launched the 67th virtual edition of the Sydney Film Festival. Nashen also talks about the Sydney Film Festival partnership with Australia’s most distinctive streaming service SBS On Demand to present Sydney Film Festival Selects, a collection of 40 Sydney Film Festival titles to binge for free, from 10 June to 10 July. Nashen explores why going virtual is the best way to support the filmmaking industry and film festival audiences in these disruptive times. In fact, the Festival is also part of We Are One: A Global Film Festival, a free, global, online film festival, opening 29 May for audiences everywhere. This first-ever collaboration of the world’s greatest film festivals presents selections from each of the festivals involved. The Sydney Film Festival’s contribution is two ground-breaking Australian films from First Nations directors: Mabo (Rachel Perkins), and Mystery Road (Ivan Sen).

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amandla Stenberg and André Holland, actors of Netflix tv series The Eddy.

It doesn’t follow the rules of modern TV series, The Eddy, the new work by director Damien Chazelle, that comes from the collaboration between him and Alan Poul, BAFTA Award winner Jack Thorne (National Treasure) and six-time Grammy Award® winner Glen Ballard. The Eddy was presented at the 70th Berlinale in the Series section and it stars Amandla Stenberg and André Holland. The series is set in modern day Paris in a jazz bar among jazz musicians and despite real musicians and original music, is not a musical but a drama with a touch of thriller-noir. Stenberg and Holland reveal how they worked according to the series pace that it follows Jazz rules more than Tv series’s ones.

The Eddy: Directed by Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy Award® winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laïla Marrakchi (Le Bureau des Légendes), the Netflix original series The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.

The Eddy is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from May 8th.

To discover more about the tv series, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joanna Kulig, actress of Netflix tv series The Eddy.

When people watched Cold War by Pawel Pawlikoski at the Festival de Cannes in 2018, they all said it was a polish black and white version of La La Land. Cold War‘s star, Joanna Kulig, who is also a singer, is among the protagonists of Damien Chazelle’s first series, The Eddy, where she gets to sing and so, combine her two passions, film and music. It’s a dream come true for Joanna Kulig who describes how her character is unusual in the TV series panorama and how the atmosphere on set was as perfect as she could imagine it would be. Every episode focuses on a character and episode 5 is the one dedicated to Maja, Kulig’s role.

The Eddy: Directed by Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy Award® winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laïla Marrakchi (Le Bureau des Légendes), the Netflix original series The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.

The Eddy is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from May 8th.

To discover more about the tv series, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marvin Kren, director of Netflix tv series Freud.

Marvin Kren is a director known to be a master of horror films in his country, Austria. When receiving the proposal of directing a TV series for Netflix on the most famous Austrian person who ever lived, FREUD, it was his idea to give the series a dark and twisted accent, turning it into a horror-thriller experience. Marvin Kren describes his approach to the Freudian world and reveals he went through hypnosis to better understand what it means to be faced with the darkest side of your own mind.

Freud: Eager to make his name in 19th-century Vienna, a hungry young Sigmund Freud joins a psychic and an inspector to solve a string of bloody mysteries.

Freud is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from March 23rd.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ella Rumpf and Robert Finster, director of Netflix tv series Freud.

Robert Finster and Ella Rumpf are the protagonists of Freud, the new Netflix series on famous doctor Sigmund Freud, which has been presented at the 70th Berlinale in the Berlinale series section. The actors describe their facing all the history and stereotypes behind Doctor Freud’s figure and comment on their characters’ first encounter as the moment in which the series take its dark turn.

Freud: In 1886 Vienna, the revolutionary theories of young Sigmund Freud (Robert Finster) face heavy opposition – and gain the interest of famous psychic medium Fleur Salomé (Ella Rumpf) and Alfred Kiss (Georg Friedrich), war veteran and police officer. With them at his side, Freud soon finds himself in the midst of a murderous conspiracy that kept Austria in suspense.

To find out more, listen to this interview and watch Freud on Netflix from march 23rd.

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