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Paz Fábrega – filmmaker – Viaje

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Paz Fábrega, director of the film VIAJE, which had its European premiere at the 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Paz talks with us about the journey that was the making of this film, which was made with portable equipment and shot intuitively and impulsively with plenty of room for improvisation and a very lengthy post production process.

She also talks about her own interest in experimenting with different forms of filmmaking and her lenience towards telling stories that somehow fit in with particular events that take place in her life at the time.

VIAJE: San Jose, Costa Rica, the present. Pedro (30) and Luciana (29) meet at a party. Although there’s no fatal attraction, there’s a hint that something is happening between them. What follows is an impulsive decision to travel together to the base of the Rincon de la vieja volcano in the northwest of the country. Forget about past traumas, this unassuming romance focuses on the importance and singularity of the here and now.

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Patrick Zabaealscoa – principal Lecturer in Translation Studies – Pompeu Fabra University

Dr Zabalbeascoa is a principal Lecturer in Translation Studies at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He is an expert in translation theory, didactics of translation and audiovisual screen translation, mostly from English into Spanish and Catalan.

Dr Zabalbeascoa reflects on key pedagogical concepts and terms designed for a multilingual, multimodal, foreign language learning platform such as Clipflair.

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Kieran Donaghy – expert – Using film to Teach Languages in a World of Screens

Dr Kieran Donaghy has a Ma in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and Business Communication. He has focused his career in creating resources for the use of film in the classroom, which he shares through his blog http://film-english.com.

In 2013, FilmEnglish obtained the ELTons Award (sponsored by the British Council and Cambridge ESOL) for Innovation in Teacher Resources and a Medea Award (sponsored by the European Lifelong Learning programme) for the User-Generated content.

Dr Donaghy talks about the potential of using films (also with older learners) and especially shorts videos to teach a foreign language.

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Isabelle Vanderschelden – Senior Lecturer and French section leader in the Department of Languages, Information and Communication – Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden is Senior Lecturer and French section leader in the Department of Languages, Information and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is also a core member Flame Reasearch Centre and Filta

As her colleague Dr Carmen Herrero, Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden describes her experience as a teacher (of French as a foreign language) and the research studies realized for the the groups FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) and FILTA (Film in Language Teaching Association) at Manchester Metropolitan University

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Ilaria Brancatelli – expert on film and media in the classroom as accelerated language learning experience

Dr Ilaria Brancatelli gained a BA/MA Social and Political/Historical Sciences at the University of Turin. She is specialized in the engagement in Social Science research with focus on Ethnography, Ethnographic research emanating mainly from psychological, sociological and anthropological perspectives and Linguistics and cultural studies.

Film and media as a possible tool for the implementation of accelerated learning in language teaching practice, with particular focus on learning styles and inclusive learning. Accelerated learning, as a concept, is synonymous with a more efficient and enjoyable learning experience. The matching of the way learners are taught to the way they prefer to learn is the essence of the driving force that seeks to identify a personalised learning style. Dr Brancatelli’s research explores the possibility that the use of film and media offers a range of valuable tools to facilitating and enhancing such more natural and satisfying learning outcomes.

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Jennifer Lertola, Noa Talaván – collaborators – ClipFlair

Dr Jennifer Lertola is an E-tutor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her main research interests include teaching Italian as a foreign language, second language acquisition, audiovisual translation and online education. She has been a member of EU-funded Clipfair project.

Dr Noa Talaván holds a senior lecturer position in the Foreign Languages Dept. of the Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Her main fields of research are audiovisual translation, mobile learning and foreign language education. She is currently taking part in two different projects: the above mentioned Clipflair and “SO CALLED ME” on Mobile Learning Applications in Language Learning (as part of a group called ATLAS).

Dr Lertola and Talaván presented the results of their e-learning project through Clipflair, an online platform meant to enable foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioting of clips.

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Carmen Herrero – Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish – Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Carmen Herrero is the Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish at Manchester metropolitan University. She teaches Hispanic cinema and culture. Dr Her and corero is a core member of the FLAME research Centre (Film, Languages and Media in Education) and also a co-director and co-founder of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association.

FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) is a new and pioneering Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University dedicated to the development and dissemination of innovative research and current findings in the areas of pedagogy, languages, media and film. FLAME is a sort of follow up to the work of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association), a worlwide association founded by the core member of FLAME, which has now over 2.500 members from 90 different countries and continues to grow.

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Brian Tomlinson – founder and president – MATSDA (International Materials Development Association)

Dr Brian Tomlinson is one of the world’s leading experts in teacher training and material development and design, author of several publications about language teaching, and Founder and President of MATSDA, the International Materials Devolopment Association.

In this interview he offers a precious insight in Dr Tomlinson extraordinary approach to teaching, focused on his experience in developing students skills and awareness.

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Matteo Broggini – expert – DCF

Dr Matteo Broggini works as an Italian teacher at Centro di lingua e cultura italiana per stranieri in Milan, where he is also director of studies and teacher trainer. He talks to us about DCF (in Italian, acronym of Didattizzazione di un film completo), an experimental project that enables teachers to turn full-length movies into complete language courses by treating them as tv series.

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Tomm Moore – director – Song of the Sea

FRED’s Gozalo Suarez interviewed Tomm Moore, the director of Song of the Sea, which was screened at the 8th edition of Fest Anca International Animation Festival in Zilina, Slovakia.

Tomm Moore went to the 8th edition of the animated film festival of Zilina – Fest Anca – to preside the jury of its international competition, hold a conference on how Cartoon Saloon and its partners made his new Oscar-nominee title Song of the Sea and present the two feature films he has directed to date.

SONG OF THE SEA: Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother’s home to journey to the sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world.

After The Secret of Kells, Tomm Moore directed another traditionally animated gem to vie for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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