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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Derek Cianfrance, who talks about his new film The Light Between Oceans from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS. Set off the remote edge of Western Australia following World War I, a shell-shocked veteran devotes himself to his new job as lighthouse keeper, seeking solace in the solitude of the island. He intends to remain alone, until he meets a vivacious young woman from the town across the bay. Despite the obstacles, their love flourishes, they marry and hope to start a family, but fate intercedes. When a rowboat holding a dead man and an infant washes ashore, it sets off a chain of decisions that unravel with shattering consequences.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actors Joseph Haro and Taylor Frei, who talk about the film Summertime from Venezia 73.

L’ESTATE ADDOSSO. Marco, who has just finished high school, is worried about his uncertain future. His graduation summer will, as the result of a series of unexpected and lucky coincidences, lead him to spend twenty days in San Francisco. He travels with Maria, a girl from his own school who is considered conservative and pedantic. Waiting for them are Matt and Paul, two American boys with whom Marco and Maria will undertake some enthusiastic explorations which will lead them to come to grips with themselves and define who they are and who they want to become. When the time comes to say goodbye and go home, the four will have shared a unique, perhaps unrepeatable, experience of friendship, of growth and development that will stay with them forever.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Marco Martins and actor Nuno Lopes on their film São Jorge from Venezia 73.

SÃO JORGE. In 2011 Portugal began the so-called “year of the Troika” (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering amounts and a growing number of families and companies unable to repay their installment loans. Jorge is an unemployed boxer on the verge of losing his son and his wife, who has decided to return to Brazil. As a means of paying off his debt and persuading his wife to remain in Portugal, Jorge accepts a job with a debt-collection agency, which will drag him into a world of violence and crime.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Kasper Collin, who talks about his new film I Called Him Morgan from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Having made a previous documentary on jazzman Albert Ayler, the director got into trumpeter Lee Morgan, famous for his work with jazz combo The Messengers, with Albert Blakey, and his own works as leader. The infamous event that ended his life, on stage during a concert, was his own killing at the hands of his wife Helen Morgan. Making use of a rare taped interview with Helen herself, guest contributions and plenty of archive footage, along with the music (of course), Kasper Collin’s I Called Him Morgan is a documentary by a jazz fan especially for, but not exclusively, jazz fans.

I CALLED HIM MORGAN – On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This feature documentary is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together. A film about love, jazz and America.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director of the Venice Production Bridge from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Pascal Diot has been the head of the market and industry section of the Venice Film Festival for many years, now. His decision of changing the name of the once-called Venice Film Marlet has great sense and perspective and a vision that we can understand better here, thorugh his own words.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jerzy Skolimowski, who received a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

The great Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski received a Golden Lion lifetime achievement at the 2016 edition of the Venice Film Festival. Skolimowski is one of the pioneers of Polish cinema particularly attached to the New Wave of the 1960’s – alongside others such as Andrzej Wajda and Roman Polanski (with whom he collaborated) – among others.

We ask him about this and also his choice of taking 17 years off from him filmmaking; which leads to a conversation about his connection to painting and his need to express himself in this way, which is radically different from filmmaking.

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PODCAST | Andrea Mihalcea interviews director Adam Breier, who talks about his experience at the Film Stage Studio workshop of the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Andrea Mihalcea, part of the press of the 2016 Talents Sarajevo group, interview Adam Breier, a Hungarian director who took part in the Talents Sarajevo’s exclusive Film Stage Studio workshop. He talks about what Film Stage Studio, what he did during the course of its duration and what he found useful about it. He also reveals an upcoming project of his, and through his answers about Film Stage Studio, we find out about aspects of his directorial approaches and personality.

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PODCAST | Petra Meterc interviews actress Jasmina Music, who took part in the Film Stage Studio at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Petra Meterc, one of the press participants at the 2016 Talents Sarajevo, conducted this interview with Jasmina Music. Music, a talent herself in the acting group of this year’s “class,” took part in the Sarajevo Film Festival’s exclusive interdisciplinary workshop mentored by Gyula Gazdag. She, therefore, gives us an actor’s insight into the process, the challenge of her short preparation and the mixture of cinema and music that the emphasis on the immediacy of the process of Film Stage Studio encouraged.

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PODCAST | Andrea Mihalcea interviews actress Cemre Ebuzziya, who took part in the Film Stage Studio workshop at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Andrea Mihalcea, part of the 2016 press group of Talents Sarajevo, conducted an interview with Turkish actress Cemre Ebuzziya. Besides being a Talent herself, in the acting group, she took part in the Film Stage Studio workshop – the interdisciplinary workshop exclusive in its intensive format to Talents Sarajevo.

The interview provides us with an insight in the creative process of Film Stage Studio. It also allows us to get to know Ebuzziya a little more, as she also discusses her upcoming projects and tells us a little bit about her formative background.

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PODCAST | Emre Caglayan interviews Silva Capin, who presented On Leave at Pack & Pitch at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Emre Caglayan, press participant of the Talents Sarajevo 2016 program, interviews Croatian director Silva Capin. In this interview, Capin introduces her project On Leave, which was selected for the Pack & Pitch project of Talents Sarajevo at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

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