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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Beatrix Dalsass, from the IDM Südtirol Alto Adige Film Commission. 

Beatrix Dalsass from the IDM Südtirol Alto Adige Film Commission talks with Angelo Acerbi at Focus London about the brand new fund for Short Films, with a consistent budget and some other adjustments on procedures that will make the mechanism of funding faster and lighter.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the IDM Südtirol Alto Adige Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Grace Glowicki, director of the film Tito.

Grace Glowicki stars and directs Tito, an obsessive and captivating film about a young man terrified by the outside world. She plays the lead male character, a brave choice she explains in this talk, together with the idea backing this small and strangely fascinating film.

Tito: Paralyzed by fear of the outside world, a traumatized man seeks refuge in an abandoned house until the arrival of a cheerfully intrusive neighbour.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Emma Barboni, from the Emilia Romagna Film Commission. 

Emma Barboni from Emilia Romagna Film Commission presents at Focus London 2019 the new programs for funding and helping national and international film and tv productions that decide to shoot in Emilia Romagna.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Emilia Romagna Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Enrico De Lotto, Head of Production Office at Film Commission Torino Piemonte.

Enrico De Lotto is the Head of Production Office of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte. We talked with him about his role, the activities he follows and fosters and the general activity of one of the oldest and largest film commissions in Italy.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Luca Ferrario from the Trentino Film Fund and Commission.

Green Filming is a reality: the protocols for a nature friendly way of shooting a film, with the minor possible impact in terms of pollution is being applied all over Europe, in different ways. Angelo Acerbi talked about it with Luca Ferrario, one of the first film commissioners on Italy to take this matter seriously and to develop it sistematically.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Trentino Film Fund and Commission, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Raffaella Delvecchio, international production manager of the Apulia Film Commission.

Raffaella Delvecchio, international production manager for the Apulia Film Commission talks with Angelo Acerbi at Focus London about the films that were shot in Apulia which are going to be released in the next months: big international productions with high standards and complicated requests. A bumpy ride for the film commission but with great satisfaction, in the end.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Apulia Film Commisison, click here.

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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Marco Bellocchio, director of the film The Traitor.

Marco Bellocchio – whose debut film Fists in the Pocket premiered at the 3rd New York Film Festival (1965) – and star Pierfrancesco Favino brought their unconventional mob drama “The Traitor” to the festival. We met Marco Belloccio during the festival and with the help of his interpreter Michael Moore we talked about the movie Italy’s Oscar entry will open on January 31st 2020 at Film at Lincoln Center, New York.

The Traitor: Pierfrancesco Favino commands the screen throughout this decades-spanning true-life narrative as Tommaso Buscetta, the mafia boss turned informant who helped take down a large swath of organized crime leaders in Sicily in the eighties. In one fully realized, impressively staged scene after another, including the notorious Maxi Trial, overseen by Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi), Bellocchio interrogates received ideas about loyalty that so many other movies of this genre use to romanticize their characters. This is a very different kind of mafia drama, one that has the structure of a procedural but coasts on the waves of psychological portraiture. A Sony Pictures Classics release.

To discover more about the film, click here on the Film Festival website.

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Once again, Film at Lincoln Center has welcomed Pietro Marcello’s movies with great enthusiasm. This year it was Martin Eden which was selected for Main Slate at New York Film Festival and we met Pietro during the festival and with the help of his interpreter Lilia Pino Blouin we talked about the movie and how it resonated with the complex and diverse tastes of the New York audience.

Martin Eden: When unskilled laborer Martin Eden meets Elena, the daughter of a wealthy industrial family, it’s love at first sight. The well-educated, refined young woman soon becomes an obsession for Martin who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his humble origins to be able to marry Elena. With determination and at the cost of great hardship, Martin sets out to get the education that his class has never allowed him to receive. Finding support in an older friend, left-wing intellectual Russ Brissenden, Martin soon gets involved in socialist circles, leading not only to political reawakening and destructive anxiety, but also to a conflict with Elena and her bourgeois world.

To discover more about the film, click here on the Film Festival website.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Amin Palangi, Artistic Director of the Persian International Film Festival.

Amin Palangi talks about the festival program that reflects the diversity of the Persian speaking communities spread around the world. He is very proud that the festival this year has a specific focus on women filmmakers and many of the stories told in the films revolve around strong and compelling female characters.

The Persian International Film Festival showcases the best of Iranian cinema and the Persian speaking world in Australia. Founded in 2011, it is a one of a kind festival that showcases films by Persian-speaking filmmakers of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and through screenings, master classes and cultural events it celebrates this rich cinematic culture in and with Australian communities. The festival also aims to be a leader in shifting views and misconceptions in Australia by creating spaces for new and alternative voices of Persian-Australians and by being a forum for dialogue between and amongst diverse communities.

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Teona Strugar Mitevska, winner of the LUX Prize for her film God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya.

While at the 37th Torino Film Festival as a juror of the official competition, Teona Strugar Mitevska has received the news that her latest film, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, just won the European Parliament Lux Prize. The director comments on the award and her visit to the European Parliament where she felt the will and energy Europe is investing to really change things.

The LUX Prize goes to God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya. The feminist satire by Teona Strugar Mitevska has been voted the winner of the prize by the Members of the European Parliament. The European Parliament has just announced the winner of the 2019 LUX Prize. During the award ceremony held in Strasbourg, the feminist satire God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya by North Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska triumphed over its competitors, Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger and The Realm by Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Since 11 November, Members of the European Parliament had had the chance to vote for their favourite film from among the LUX Official Competition titles, which this year stood out on account of the wide range of styles and genres represented by the three finalists (a documentary, a social comedy-drama and a political thriller). President of the European Parliament David Maria Sassoli, who handed out the award, said: “Cinema is key. It opens the doors for us all to better understand the reality we live in and who we are. Directors need to have the courage to address difficult problems, and the European Parliament has always been committed to the protection of their rights. We believe in freedom of expression. Long live European cinema.” Vice-president Klára Dobrev and Sabine Verheyen, chair of the CULT Committee, presented the prizes to the runners-up. Director Teona Mitevska collected the prize, stating, “Petrunya is defiant. It is her resistance, her courage and her quest for justice that touches us deeply and profoundly. I’m always criticised because my films are too political, and it is true. I think it is my duty to raise my voice to speak about problems that nobody else dares to speak about. How can we build a better future if we don’t dare to speak about the problems? We must be given the chance to air our opinions freely.” She also referred to the imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker and former political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, who yesterday addressed the plenary chamber in Strasbourg. “Oleg Sentsov spent five years in prison. Something like this can never happen again. This must be our common fight as creators, artists and politicians, to express ourselves freely and without fear. I’m a woman, I’m Macedonian and I’m European, and I truly believe that the future of Europe means solidarity and inclusion.” Teona Mitevska was accompanied by actress-producer Labina Mitevska and the film’s protagonist, Zorica Nusheva. The film, based on true events, is a satirical drama about a woman who opposes religious traditions and gender stereotypes in a small town in North Macedonia. It is a co-production between Macedonia’s Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup, Slovenia’s Vertigo, Croatia’s Spiritus Movens, and France’s Deuxième Ligne Films and EZ Films, with Pyramide International managing its international rights. The film had its world premiere this year in the main competition of the 69th Berlinale, and since then, it has won various awards at different international film festivals. The three 2019 LUX Prize Competition titles will keep travelling across Europe thanks to the LUX Film Days, a series of special screenings organised in collaboration with several festivals and venues in different countries.

To discover more about the LUX Prize, click here.

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