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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Benjamin Hessler and Stefan Brunner, creators of Netflix tv series Freud.

At the 70th Berlinale, in the Series section, we meet the creators of Freud, the Netflix series about Austria’s most popular figure: Doctor Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Benjamin Hessler and Stefan Brunner reveal the genesis of the project and then proceed to explain the difficulties of writing something new and creative out of a figure who has almost a whole vocabulary after his name. How much freedom can a writer have when creating a series about a person we all technically know?

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.

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

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews the editor Niki Mossböck.

Austrian film editor Niki Mossböck was one of the experts present at the 2020 East Doc Platform in Prague, Czech Republic. As part of her activities at EDP as a mentor, she delivered a discussion on the importance of the initial moments of a film, supported by examples, which she talks about here. In this interview, she also talks about her other activities at EDP collaborating with the participants of its Ex Oriente program, plus shares with us her personal definition of the art of film editing.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amy Shepherd, Global Impact Director at Think-Film Impact Production and juror for the International Competition.

An interview with Amy Shepherd, Global Impact Director at Think-Film Impact Production. The interview was recorded at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. Shepherd talks to us about Think-Film, some of the works that it does and examples of recent films that it has worked on. Besides this, she also shared with us her thoughts on her experience at One World and points out some of the ways in which Coronavirus will pose challenges to the sector.

THINK-FILM IMPACT PRODUCTION (TFIP) is a European-based film impact consultancy that harnesses the power of visual storytelling to drive forward political and social change.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jerry Rothwell, director of the documentary The Reason I Jump.

An interview with director Jerry Rothwell, who presented his latest documentary, The Reason I Jump, in the international competition in 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film translates a book of the same name that had been written by Japanese author Naoki Higashida as a child, and illustrates his life and experience of living with autism. In this interview, Rothwell talks about the challenge of translating this book into the film and how meeting the author influenced his work. He also talks about the important sensory dimension of the film, his knowledge on the subject matter before he began working on the project and more.

The Reason I Jump: How do children and adolescents with autistic spectrum disorders experience the world? An illustrative example is provided in a book by Japanese author Naoki Higashida, whose reflections on his own experience with autism led to the making of a film of the same name.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jan Grarup, director of the documentary Photographer of War.

An interview with acclaimed Danish war photographer Jan Grarup from the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. Grarup attended the festival to present an exhibition of a selection of his own photos as well as the documentary, Photographer of War, which he is the protagonist of and was directed by Boris Benjamin Bertram. In this interview, Grarup talks about how he became a war photographer, the importance of discourse around the films he shoots and whether he ever feels in danger. He also talks about opening up so much of his intimate life on Photographer of War, how difficult it was, and more.

Photographer of War: An intimate portrait of a man who has been photographing war for 25 years but suddenly faces an entirely new challenge. Life has opened a different battleground for him.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Espen Wallin, co-director of the documentary Self Portrait.

An interview with director Espen Wallin, who co-directed the documentary Self Portrait with Margreth Olin and Katja Høgseth, and presented the film in the International Competition of the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. The documentary is about Lene Marie Fossen, the late photo artist who also lived with anorexia from the age of ten. Wallin talks about the origins of the project and about Fossen herself, as well as the desire to highlight her work as an artist. He also talks about Fossen’s relationship with her anorexia, whether she was comfortable during the making of the movie and more.

Self Portrait: She is fascinated by human faces – but she hid her own for a long time. In an effort to stop time, Lene became enchanted by photography, but also the desire never to grow up and to have total control over her own body.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Iryna Tsilyk, director of the documentary The Earth Is Blue as an Orange.

An interview with Iryna Tsilyk, director of The Earth Is Blue As an Orange, presented in the International Competition of the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film portrays the every day life of a family in a war-torn region. Specifically, it is a film depicting a family living in Donbass, Ukrain, with the peculiar hobby of making films together. Tsilyk talks with us about meeting the family and her intentions of making a film about the war that was not depressing but rather positive, uplifting and full of warmth. She also talks about her familiarity with the region and the experience of working on her debut feature documentary – as well as the challenges that this experience posed.

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange: For one mother and her children, making a film together is a way of coming to terms with the trauma of war in Donbass, Ukraine.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Haytham Chamass, founder of Art Factory 961.

An interview with Haytham Chamass, Lebanese documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and founder of Art Factory 961. The interview was recorded at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, where he was part of the jury for the Czech Competition. On our chat, Chamass talks about the power of documentary and Art Factory 961 – a Beirut-based non-profit NGO, that focuses on advocating human rights by using arts – and its Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival, which takes place in July and regularly met with silent opposition from the Lebanese government.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andrea Culková, director of the film Grief.

An interview with filmmaker Andrea Culková, who presented her latest film Grief at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film follows a group of female environmental activists and also talks a lot about the introduction of emotions in environmental discourse. In this chat, Culková tells us more about the grief of the movie (the title translates from Czech as “The Grief of Women”), about climate change and other plagues of our planet, the film’s structure and concludes with some thoughts on the current Coronavirus outbreak.

Grief: GRIEF. The heroines of the film are seriously concerned about the future of humanity and the planet. They organise activist events within the Czech branch of the Extinction Rebellion movement, which raises awareness about the impacts of the global environmental crisis.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Riccardo Scamarcio, actor of the film If Only.

We sit down with Riccardo Scamarcio to discuss his two very differing father figure roles in films If Only and Stolen days, both presented at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London. If Only is the feature debut of film producer Ginevra Elkann and Scamarcio shared his experience of working with her on her first and very personal film alongside child actors also performing in their first film. He also spoke about the contrasting father role he played as a bona fide criminal in noir Stolen Days.

If Only:  Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, three tight-knit siblings live in Paris in the safe, albeit bizarre, bourgeois world of their Russian-Orthodox mother. One day they are suddenly packed and sent off into the arms of their absent, unconventional and completely broke Italian father Carlo, who has no idea how to look after himself, let alone his kids. Despite the daily challenges and tensions, the children can’t help but hope for the family to be reunited. “Captivating drama of a connected family that is a partly autobiographical and impressive debut from noted producer Ginevra Elkann” – Adrian Wootton, curator of Cinema Made in Italy, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

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