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PODCAST | Elena Di Giovanni interviews Enrico Pigliacampo about the Live Text Access (LTA), project for real-time subtitling through respeaking and velotiping.

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Enrico Pigliacampo talks about Live Text Access (LTA), project co-funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the EU. LTA is a strategic partnership addressing inclusion and innovation in higher education with a focus on three European priorities: development of curricula to meet labour market and societal needs, open education in the digital era and social inclusion.

Real-time subtitles enable live access to audiovisual content and in situations where support for communication is required. The need for real-time subtitles has risen since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) by the European Accessibility Act and the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. They urge service providers to ensure access to people with a visual or hearing disability.

The project has a balanced participation of three universities SDI, UAB and SSML, two accessibility service providers Sub-Ti Access and Velotype, one production company ZDF Digital, one certification association ECQA and one end user associations EFHOH.

For more information about Live Text Access (LTA) project, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Giuseppe Capotondi, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki, director and actors of the film The Burnt Orange Heresy. 

An interview with director Giuseppe Capotondi, whose latest feature, The Burnt Orange Heresy, closed the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Joining him on this chat are the two lead actors of the film: Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki. In this interview, Capotondi talks about what it was that interested him about the original source novel (Charles Willeford’s book of the same name), while Bang and Debicki talk about how it was they were able to get into their wonderfully enigmatic roles.

The Burnt Orange Heresy: The art world and the underworld collide in this elegant and erotic neo-noir thriller. Set in present day Italy, irresistibly charismatic art critic James Figueras hooks up with provocative and alluring American, Berenice Hollis. He’s a classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his ambition, whilst she’s an innocent touring Europe, enjoying the freedom of being whoever she wishes. The new lovers travel to the lavish and opulent Lake Como estate of powerful art collector, Joseph Cassidy. Their host reveals he is the patron of Jerome Debney the reclusive J.D. Salinger of the art world, and he has a simple request: for James to steal a Debney masterpiece from the artist’s studio, whatever the cost. As the couple spends time with the legendary Debney, they start to realise that nothing about the artist nor their mission is what it seems. But James is a man of deep, lurking ambition and he will do anything, from arson and burglary to murder, in order to further his career.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Tiago Guedes, director of the film A Herdade.

Thiago Guedes talks to FRED about his contribution to the script, portraying the rise of women during the 20th century and competing in a festival like Venice.

A Herdade: The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. A herdade delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940s, through the Carnation revolution to these days.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ciro Guerra, Mark Rylance and Gana Bayarsaikhan, director and actors of the film Waiting For Barbarians.

In his first english language film, Waiting for Barbarians, Colombian director Ciro Guerra chose to adapt nobel prize winner J.M. Coitzee’s novel. The film is competing for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice Film Festival and it is set at the border of an empire ina undefinite time and moment in history. It started being an allegory on the past but the more Ciro Guerra worked on the film, the more realized that the film was a metaphor for describing what we’re living today with xenofobia and the inability of accepting who’s different from us. Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp are antagonists in the story while Gana Bayarsaikhan plays the “barbarian” woman who could be seen as a victim but represents instead an unusual strength.

Waiting For Barbarians: A magistrate, administrator of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire, looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the barbarians and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations. The treatment of the barbarians at his hands and the torture of a young barbarian woman combine to lead the magistrate to a crisis of conscience and a quixotic act of rebellion.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sahraa Karimi, director of the film Hava, Maryan, Ayesha. 

Sahraa Karimi has made history by becoming the first female director to have directed an Afghani independent feature film. She presented it at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, and it is called Hava, Maryam, Ayesha. The three names of the title stand for the three different characters, each from a different cultural background, whose lives are portrayed. Karimi talks about this, the challenges she faced in making this movie and the way in which she employed a different style for each of the three different episodes of the movie.

Hava, Maryan, Ayesha: Three Afghan women from different social background, living in Kabul, are facing a big challenge in their lives. Hava, a traditional pregnant woman whom no one cares about, is living with her father- and mother-in-law. Her only joy is talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband that finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, accepts to marry her cousin because she is pregnant from her boyfriend who disappears after hearing her pregnancy news. Therefore, she needs to find a doctor to get an abortion and regain her virginity. Each of them has to solve her problem by herself for the first time.

To discover more about the film Hava, Maryan, Ayesha, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Hailey Gates, director of the film Shako Mako. 

FRED interviews Hailey Gates, who directed Shako Mako, one of the short films of the MIU MIU Women’s Tales initiative presented in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. The director talks about the experience of working on this project, which also marks her first fiction film directorial effort.

Shako Mako: Farah, a bread seller, walks the streets of a Middle Eastern town, while an American military vehicle, surrounded by soldiers, slowly passes by. A moment’s silence. Then, a devastating explosion. Civilians are bloodied, wounded. The horrors of war. “Farah” looks around aghast and wailing. But nothing here is quite what it seems. In fact, “Farah” is a character played by an aspiring actress called Laila. And this isn’t Iraq, but a replica village erected on the Fort Irwin army base in California, used to train American troops before being sent abroad. Laila believes her acting talents are being wasted away in this arid simulation, where female role-players are limited to mute, background roles. She takes things much more seriously. Laila plots her way out.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Graeme Scott and Buddy Squires, directors of the film Beyond The Beach – The Hell and The Hope.

Graeme Scott and Buffy Squires worked beside the men and women of Emergency for five years to give us this astounding and shocking report of the war zones and the humanitarian crisis in our planet, where Emergency is operating. Gino Strada came at the end of the project to be interviewed and his voice and his words are the most efficient frame which the daily nightmares of these populations and those who help them are told into.

Beyond The Beach – The Hell and The Hope: gives a glimpse into the lives of doctors, nurses and volunteers who have given up their everyday lives to work in war-torn parts of the world for the Italian NGO Emergency. Created in 1994 by war surgeon Gino Strada, Emergency staff have helped save over 9 million lives around the world. From treating frontline injuries caused by explosions in Kabul, to the monotony of Refugee Camps in Iraq as well as their deployment on the MOAS rescue boats off the coast of Libya, the staff explain how they could not simply stay at home and do nothing knowing they could ‘do something’. We see their laughter, tears and, at times, frustration doing what very few people are brave enough to do and we learn the hardships and emotional stress that they must endure to carry out their missions while never losing hope…

For more information about the film Beyond The Beach – The Hell and The Hope, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sean Evans, director of the film Roger Waters Us + Them.

Sean Evans has been working with Roger Waters for a long time, he created with him the show for the Roger Waters Us +Them tour. They are on the same page regarding human rights and social equality. This is translated in the show as well as the film, and Sean tells us the philosophy behind all the shows he builds.

Roger Waters Us + Them: Roger Waters, founder member and creative force behind Pink Floyd, brings to the screen his live story of Us + Them. The movie features songs from Waters legendary Pink Floyd albums and his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want? The film inspires with its powerful music and message of human rights, liberty and love.

For more information about the film Roger Waters Us + Them, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Roger Waters, director of the film Roger Waters Us + Them.

Having a little talk with Roger Waters is a big emotion. Listening how such an iconic musician is involved and outspoken towards human and social rights and against any form of oppressive and restraining governments and leaders is uplifting.

Roger Waters Us + Them: Roger Waters, founder member and creative force behind Pink Floyd, brings to the screen his live story of Us + Them. The movie features songs from Waters legendary Pink Floyd albums and his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want? The film inspires with its powerful music and message of human rights, liberty and love.

For more information about the film Roger Waters Us + Them, click here.

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