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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Matthew Fifer, director of the film Cicada.

Matthew Fifer has penned with his co-director Kieran Mulcare an intense and surprising first feature film. Based on a personal story, the film is a truly independent production and Matthew talks about its genesis, and the way he used this as a personal therapy , creating though a poignant and beautiful movie.

Cicada: After a series of unsuccessful and embarrassing encounters with women, Ben, a young bisexual, returns to the gay world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a black man struggling with deep wounds. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben’s past comes to the surface. It is a film of love, of great pain but also of immense joy, with two actors who relive parts of their experiences. A sensual and profound film, a debut to keep an eye on.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Gil Baroni and Diana Moro, director and producer of the film Alice Junior.

The passionate and creative Gil Baroni talks withe help of his distributor and producer Diana Moro ( his English sometimes needs some Portuguese intervention…) about the fantastic Alice Junior, a surprise in Berlin2020, and an award collector at Lovers Film Festival 35 in Turin.

Alice Junior: This is the story of Alice Junior, a transgender girl full of life, who wants to give her first kiss, but first, she just want to be who she really is.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the Visual Effects Supervisor and Producer, Phil Tippet.

Phil Tippet worked with George Lucas on Star Wars and made some of the milestones of modern visual effects history (the cantina band and the holographic chess scene, for example). He invented the Go-Motion, a mix of stop motion and motion control. We hear how this all started form his own words.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the animator and film director, Tony Bancroft.

Tony Bancroft created Pumba, of The Lion King, and worked on Alladdin, Beauty and The Beast, he co-directed Mulan, becoming the youngest director of Disney’s history. He also wrote a book which subheading is “Everything you did not learn at school”, just saying…This interview is really something to listen to.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jay Weissberg, artistic director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. 

A conversation with film critic, historian and artistic director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Jay Weissberg. The internationally renowned festival of early silent film moved online this year in response to the pandemic for a very special limited edition. In this interview, Weissberg talks about the importance of this decision and the fascinating program it presented. He also shares his thoughts on the global situation of the hardships endured by the film preservation sector and the responses of film festivals in the time of the coronavirus.

To discover more about this Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Steve McQueen, director and of the film Small Axe.

Oscar®-winning Steve McQueen is one of the 15th Rome Film Festival’s guests of honor. At the Festa to receive the Career award, the British filmmaker presents his anthology film series Small Axe. The series is composed by 5 films and among those, three of them Lovers Rock, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue are both in the New York FIlm Festival program and in the Rome Film Festival 2020. On the red carpet of the Rome Film Fest, Steve MacQueen explains why Small Axe had to become a 5 films Anthology series and couldn’t be a TV series as he originally thought.

Small Axe is an upcoming British-American anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen. It is set to premiere on November 15, 2020 on BBC One in the UK and on November 20, 2020 on Amazon Prime Video.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Roberto Salinas, director of the film Cuban Dancer. 

A conversation with Roberto Salinas, director of Cuban Dancer, presented at Alice nella Città, the parallel and independent section of the Rome Film Fest 2020. The film is a documentary and a coming of age story of a promising Cuban ballet dancer. In this film, Solinas talks about meeting the protagonist Alexis, how his theatre background influences his documentary filmmaking, his interest in dance at large and more.

Cuban Dancer: A passionate coming of age ballet tale, danced between Cuba and the United States, in a time of change.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Francesca Borghetti, director of the film Climbing Iran. 

A conversation with Francesca Borghetti, director of Climbing Iran, presented at the Rome Film Fest 2020. The documentary follows Nasim Eshqi, an Iranian free climber who defies social, cultural and natural odds opening trails in mountains all over the world. In this interview, the filmmakers talks about meeting her, her encounter with Iranian culture, overcoming challenges of making a movie in the wild and more.

Climbing Iran: A film about Iranian free climber Nasim Eshqi, who has strong hands and pink nail polish, and for whom free climbing is an expression of freedom and mountains her destiny.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Phyllida Lloyd, director of the film Herself – La vita che verrà.

Herself, the fourth film by Mamma Mia and The Iron Lady director Phyllida Lloyd, presented at the 18th edition of Alice nella Città and Rome Film Festival, is not only a tale about solidarity among women but also among people. It shows you how you can get even stronger than you thought you could become, when people support your cause. You become even more resilient, you become TITANIUM!! Written by the film’s protagonist Clare Dunne, Herself is a story of a woman who finds the strength to not only escape her violent past but to build a new life for herself and her daughters.

Herself – La vita che verrà: After a long time, Sandra finally finds the courage to escape with her two daughters from her violent husband. Fighting against a society that seems unable to protect her, and with the intent to create a warm environment for the girls, she decides to build a house with her own hands, just for them. During the undertaking, she will find the strength to rebuild her life and will discover herself, thanks to the support of a group of people willing to help her.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Thomas Vinterberg, Mads Mikkelsen e Magnus Millang, director and actors of the film Another Round – Un altro giro.

Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg’s new film which is already the winner of London Film Festival is about 4 friends experimenting the daily use of alcohol as the key to happiness and freedom in life. At the Rome Film Festival, Thomas Vinterberg with two of his main actors Mads Mikkelsen and Magnus Millang, explains how the film is not about alcohol or a mid-life crisis but about how to deal with losing control.

Another Round – Un altro giro: There’s a theory that we are born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. Initial results are positive, and the teachers’ little project turns into a genuine academic study. But the experiment will have unexpected consequences.

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