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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gábor Reisz and Juli Berkes, director and producer of the film Bad Poems.

At first it had to be a noir then Gábor Reisz dropped the film project in favour of a more personal one: a story filled with his memories of the past which are all invisibly connected with each other. Juli Berkes describes the production’s journey accompanying the film, from all the producing and editing efforts to the choice of having the director himself to play the leading part. Bad Poems is in competition at the 36th Torino Film festival where Gábor Reisz won the Special Mention at the TFF32 with For Some Unexplicable Reason and it can certainly be defined as a therapeutic film for his director.

Bad Poems: Thirty-three-year-old Tamás has just had his heart shattered by his girlfriend, Anna. In Paris, of all places. So Tamás returns to Budapest, devastated and confused. He tries to process his sorrow by recalling his childhood memories and trying to understand this happened to him. The memories erupting inside Tamás and it seems that his present suffering is a consequence of events from the past. Tamás’ characters of various ages appear before him and reflect with humorous self-irony upon his past and present behavior.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews David Nawrath, director of the film Atlas.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets David Nawrath, at the 36th Torino Film Festival to present Atlas in competition. With Atlas Nawrath focuses on a 60-year old man who has clearly decided not to live his life but survive it every day. The chance of getting his life back arrives and the way Nawrath depicts it is neither conventional nor predictable. The director then also confirms that the film could be defined as a person’s attempt at regaining fatherhood.

Atlas: Walter is a sixty-year-old mover for forced evictions. He is the best and most loyal hauler that Walter’s boss Roland Grone employs at his house moving company. Grone is planning a risky real estate deal that involves money laundering for a notorious family clan. The tenants of an inner-city apartment building are supposed to be evicted and the house re-sold with a huge profit. However, one remaining tenant refuses to leave his home. Since then something will change and Walter will have to confront not only his crooked boss but also his own past.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lina Flint, producer of the film The Guilty.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Lina Flint, producer of The Guilty by Gustav Möller, in competition at the 36th Torino Film Festival. The film was made with a very low budget but as it’s a thriller set in a police station as the only location we see, The Guilty‘s tension and efficiency is built thanks to the expert use of the genre elements. Lina Flint explains how with director Gustav Möller they conceived the film right out of film school and decided to play with all the cliches and stereotypes surrounding the concept of the “damsel in distress” in order to twist them and mix them with the audience expectations.

The Guilty: The police officer Asger Holm is demoted to deskwork, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to the police station, is forced to use others as his eyes and ears. The search to find the missing woman and her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill, as a ticking clock and his own personal demons conspire against him.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Richard E. Grant, actor of the film Can You Ever Forgive Me?.

Richard E. Grant is a nice and funny man, and a great actor. Talking about his last film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, by Marielle Heller, we discover how easy it has been for him to click and connect with his co-star Melissa McCarthy, and how he worked to build up his character. After a 30 years old career he still manages to get roles in very diverse films, from independent ones like this to Star Wars. Pretty impressive, indeed.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Lee Israel is a best-selling celebrity biographer – and cat lover – who made her living in the 1970s and 80s profiling the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When she found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with the marketplace, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: she turned her art form to crime, theft and deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Avo Kaprealian, director of the documentary Life = Cinematic Imperfections.

Avo Kaprealian is a deeply committed director, concerned about the world we live in and the mechanisms we create to try and manage it, with a fast-paced life and a lack on introspection. His artistical choices very much reflect this attitude, and this impressive film leaves the audience in a trance, demanding a different approach to life and to the world. A deep experience.

Life = Cinematic Imperfections: In the condition of living in a time of killings and in dead spaces where anything is for sale, lost souls are looking for characters to live and places to go, in a country drowning in the confused puzzle of the past. They are crossing the road between catastrophes… going through the picture of human beings above and under identities…

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Christoffer Nordenrot, actor and screenwriter of the film Unthinkable.

Christoffer Nordenrot has written an intriguing political thriller on a potential attack to Sweden from a foreign force (that has a face and a name at the end of the film – a very harsh and bold statement). Big action sequences and special effects to serve a story composed of personal and intimate tragedies that intertwine with the national catastrophe that is unraveling. An enormous narrative effort and a compelling visual rendition, further away from the Swedish films we are used to see.

Unthinkable: Alex is a successful artist whose controlled existence is disturbed when his mother dies in a suspected terror attack against Stockholm. For the first time in several years, Alex is forced to return to his childhood village to arrange the funeral. By accident Alex meets Anna, the youth love he has desperately been trying to forget. As old feelings are coming alive, more attempts around the country take place: Sweden is under an unknown attack. Will Alex succeed to reconcile with Anna before it’s too late?

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PODCAST| Sarah Bradbury interviews Murray Woodfield, director of the UK Film Festival.

An interview with the director of the UK Film Festival, Murray Woodfield, on the opening night to discuss the history and mission of the festival, highlights of the programme and diversity in the film industry.

According to the UK Film Festival, it “aims to champion great films but in particular is seeking work from those filmmakers who might not yet have had the chance for a prestigious public screening of their work.”

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Federico Spoletti, Francesca Raffi and Chiara Nicoletti interview some of the experts in media accessibility. This episode includes contributions from Lorenzo Puntoni, Joshua Branson, Louise Fryer, Joel Snyder, Annalisa Sandrelli and Elena Di Giovanni.

To listen to this programme, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture

FRED is pleased to present the second episode of Accessible Cinema, a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep you updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

Lorenzo Puntoni, is a young Italian director who graduated from the “Accademica dell’Immagine” in L’Aquila. For the short film Acquario, Lorenzo collaborated with Joshua Branson. Joshua played the role of “director of accessibility” as part of his research project on accessible filmmaking, which he is conducting under the supervision of Pablo Romero-Fresco (honorary professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University of Roehampton – London, UK). Lorenzo tells us how he managed to integrate the new role of director of accessibility into the film production chain.

Joshua Branson is a member of the Galician Observatory for Media Accessibility (GALMA) and he is a PhD student at the Universidade de Vigo (Spain). He talks about his research, supervised by Pablo Romero Fresco, which focuses on the exploration of accessible filmmaking in practice.

Louise Fryer, for many years a presenter for BBC Radio 3, works as an audio describer and an AD trainer at the National Theatre and for VocalEyes. She is the author of An Introduction to Audio Description (Translation Practices Explained), amongst many other works, which is a comprehensive and practical guide to the theory and practice of audio description. She tells us how and why she became so involved in media accessibility, what “integrated audio description” means and she talks to us about other projects related to media accessibility.

Joel Snyder is President of the Audio Description Associates, as well as the founder and director of the American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project (ADP), designed to boost awareness of description in all formats throughout the United States. He shares his opinion on the importance of quality in the field of accessibility.

Annalisa Sandrelli is a lecturer in English at the Faculty of Interpreting and Translation of the University of International Studies (UNINT) in Rome. She defines the practice of respeaking and tells us more about two workshops on accessible cinema which were held during this year’s edition of the Venice Film Festival.

Finally, Elena Di Giovanni, associate professor of English Translation at the University of Macerata (Italy), shares with us all the latest news on the cinema industry and accessibility.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Col Needham, founder of IMDb and juror at the Torino Film Festival.

Col Needham is a very nice and funny man, and when he tells us the story of his massive success he is happy and still a little surprised, even after more than 25 years, that a personal passion has turned in a world appreciated and needed web tool, with more than 200 millions contacts every day.

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PODCAST| Sarah Bradbury interviews Melissa Miller, director of the film All These Small Moments.

Writer and director Melissa Miller discusses her debut feature, All These Small Moments, including what inspired her to tell the story through the eyes of a young boy and her experience of taking her film from script to screen, working with both seasoned actors – ’80s star Molly Ringwald and Brian D’Arcy James – and younger actors such as breakout star Brendan Meyer.

All These Small Moments: A boy faces the first upsets of adolescence: his parents are on the verge of divorce, a schoolmate is courting him, a young woman who crosses on the bus lights up his fantasies. And then there’s the little brother, the friends, Brooklyn, the life that changes. A feverish tale of training, which looks to the cinema of John Hughes (the presence of Molly Ringwald in the role of the mother confirms it). With Jemima Kirk (Girls) and Brian D’Arcy James (The Spotlight Case).

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