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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dario Oliveira, director of the Porto/Post/Doc.

A chat about the upcoming edition of Porto/Post/Doc in Portugal with its director, Dario Oliveira. The festival showcases what Oliveira defines as the cinema of the real and its seventh edition will take place online on November 20-29, 2020. Oliveira shares with us the history and mission statement of the festival and talks about this year’s program, including a dedicated strand to the current American social and political landscape.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Simone Bitton, director of the documentary Ziyara.

A conversation with Simone Bitton, whose new documentary Ziyara is screening at the IDFA 2020. The documentary talks about the Muslims who are keepers of Jewish history and heritage in Morocco. In this interview, Bitton talks about the personal motivation that led her to embark on this journey, the historical background of the situation she explores and more.

Ziyara: Morocco had a Jewish population of more than 300,000 until the 1950s. From that time on, until just after the Six Day War in June 1967, a flood of emigrants left for countries such as France, Israel, and America. Filmmaker Simone Bitton’s family settled in France. In Ziyara (a term that refers to a form of pilgrimage to sacred places), Bitton returns to her homeland and searches for the traces the Jews have left behind. There is no shortage of these. Traveling by car—and taking the opportunity to include beautiful shots of the passing landscape—Bitton makes a tour of Jewish heritage in towns and villages. She discovers cemeteries, remnants of the Mellah (the Jewish quarter), synagogues, and schools—places often lovingly and reverently maintained by the local people. Bitton talks to them about the importance of heritage conservation, and their devotion, as well as about the relationship between Jews and Muslims. One of them muses: what would Morocco be like today if the Jews had stayed?

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Christopher Mack, Director Creative Talent Netflix.

Christopher Mack, Director of Creative Talent Investment for Netflix, held a masterclass for Torino Film Lab 2020 about the importance of a good pitch in selling a film or a tv series. We talk with him about the key aspects of a good pitch and how to prepare it.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh has been appointed to be Deputy Director to the Torino Film Festival to give a wider international breath to the event and a major attention and consideration to the gender issue, that has also been her interest and concern in her regular life as a lawyer. She gives some strong and realistic insights on the role of cinema and festivals and the way issues can permeate our lives in a more effective ways through images and the cinematica art. A must-hear interview.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe, directors of the film The Last Hillbilly. 

A conversation with Diane Sara Bouzgarrou and Thomas Jenkoe, directors of The Last Hillbilly. The documentary has been selected for IDFA 2020. The film offers poetic insight on the American hillbilly culture. In this interview, they share how they approached this project, established a connection with a subject they were unfamiliar with, how the film has acquired new meanings since the tumult of 2020 and more.

The Last Hillbilly: They are viewed as low-skilled hillbillies, poor and violent. Brian Ritchie knows only too well what the rest of the United States thinks of the inhabitants of the Appalachian region. And all the preconceptions are perfectly true, he admits. Nevertheless, The Last Hillbilly also shows that the simple-looking life is anything but simple.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Diana Tabakov, executive director of Doc Alliance Films.

A conversation with Diana Tabakov, executive director of Doc Alliance Films, also known as DAFilms. The major documentary streaming portal turns 15 this year. In this interview, Tabakov shares with us the history of DAFilms, talks about what it is and what it does as well as some of the challenges relating to online distribution of documentaries at large and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Aleksandr M. Vinogradov, director of the film Bare. 

A conversation with Aleksandr M. Vinogradov, director of Bare, which documents a troupe of naked male dancers working on a piece by acclaimed Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits. In this interview, Vinogradov tells us a bit about the birth of his interest in documentary filmmaking. He also talks about his interest in dance, his views on nakedness, the link between observation and voyeurism and more.

Bare: Eleven naked men audition, rehearse and perform for the premiere of master Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits’s new contemporary dance piece Anima Ardens. Mixing intimate rehearsal footage with extensive and breathtaking dance sequences, Bare follows the choreographer and his team as they work to explore difficult, often taboo subjects through nudity and dance. In this bold exploration of artistic conflict, gender, and sexuality the one constant is the conceit that the body is the last bastion of personal freedom.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sine Skibsholt, director of the film Long, Live, Love. 

A conversation with filmmaker Sine Skibsholt, whose documentary Long, Live, Love won the top prize at Romania’s Astra Film Festival and will be screened at the upcoming edition of the International Film Festival Amsterdam. The film documents the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter, who has faced mortality a few times in her young life. In this interview, Skibsholt shares how her own familiarity with such situations helps her approach this subject in her film, as well as how she met her protagonists and where her interest in documentary filmmaking originates.

Long, Live, Love: Rosemarie, age 15, has already survived cancer twice. It has given her a forceful character and a strong will. Now that she’s recovered, she wants to get on with life—with school, friends, love, parties. But Rosemarie isn’t alone in dealing with trauma. Her young mother has to learn to handle an adolescent daughter, while she has yet to come to terms with the fear of losing her child. The result is a search to establish a new relationship. How do you support a family member with a serious illness? And how do you respond when she has to reinvent herself?

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Maya Zinshtein, director of the film ‘Til Kingdom Come. 

A conversation with filmmaker Maya Zinshtein about her latest documentary, ‘Til Kingdom Come, presented at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam. The film investigates on the controversial link between U.S. Christian Evangelicals and Israeli Jews. In this interview, Zinshtein expands of the political significance of this link, talks about how she was able to get such insight and shares her thoughts on the “democratic” nature of her films.

‘Til Kingdom Come: This revelatory examination of the controversial links between U.S. evangelical Christians and Israeli Jews begins in a poor mining town in Kentucky. After shooting practice, a young pastor encourages the faithful to go collecting for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the biggest charitable organization in Israel.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ricky Mastro and Léon Diana, director and producer of the film 7 Minutes.

Director Ricky Mastro and producer Léon Diana describe the experience of shooting 7 Minutes, the potential issue of being disturbing of some scenes that they wanted to keep, and the path to have the film made, which began at Lovers Goes Industry in Turin in 2018.

7 Minutes: Jean, a 55-year-old cop finds her son, Maxime, and his boyfriend hanged in a hotel room. The autopsy reveals that he died of a GHB overdose, just seven minutes after his boyfriend. Trying to find out more about what happened, Jean discovers Club Bisou, his son’s favorite place, where he meets Fabien whom he grows fond of. The desire to discover his son’s world will take him to dangerous and unsettling terrain.

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