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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews illustrator and editor Igort.

Igort (born Igor Tuveri; 1958 in Cagliari, Sardinia) is an Italian comics artist and illustrator. He began his career in Bologna at the end of the seventies, collaborating with numerous magazines: including Linus, Alter, Frigidaire, Métal Hurlant, L’Écho des savanes, Vanity, The Face. Since the nineties, he collaborates with the Japanese publishing houses Kodansha, Brutus and Hon Hon do. In 1983 he founded together with others the Valvoline group, a collective of avant-garde art that produces a monthly supplement published in the magazine Alter Alter. Valvoline’s activity extends to other fields, such as design, painting, fashion and music. In 1994 he exhibited his works at the Venice Biennale and in 2000 he founded the Coconino Press publishing house. In 2002 he published “5 is the Perfect Number”, a Neapolitan noir. The book was released simultaneously in 6 countries and won the book of the year award at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Fats Waller followed, an imaginative biography of one of the most popular Jazz musicians of the Thirties. He moved to Paris and began the Baobab series, which was released in Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Germany and the United States. In 2010, after a long residence, between Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, Igort wrote and drew Ukrainian Notebooks, published in the Strade Blu series of Mondadori. In 2011 he published Russian Notebooks, drawn following a report by the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja. In 2013 he starred in the documentary “Igort, the Secret Landscape”, by director Domenico Distilo. In the last half of 2014, Igort announced the publication of his Japanese notebooks, a memoir, comic essay, travel book and drawn reportage that tells the author’s years spent in Japan. In November 2016, the novel “My Generation” came out, which explores the Punk and New Wave era. In the same month he released “Assaults to the Bakeries”, a volume written by Haruki Murakami that Igort illustrated with watercolors. In 2017 he founded Oblomov Edizioni. In February 2018 Igort was appointed editorial director of Linus. In July 2018 a new documentary on Igort’s work was released in Japan also directed by Domenico Distilo, entitled “Manga Do”. The summer of the same year Igort started the shooting “5 is the Perfect Number”, a film starring Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino and Carlo Buccirosso, taken from his own best seller.

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Jeremy Banks, CEO Coolabi.

Jeremy Banks (FCA) joined Coolabi Group as Chief Executive in September 2006. Prior to joining Coolabi he had been Group Commercial Director and Group Finance Director at Chorion plc from 2001 until its acquisition by 3i in 2006. Previously, Jeremy had worked for Guinness Mahon Development Capital shortly before it was bought out by its management to form ProVen Private Equity, the niche venture capital house whose focus was media and branded content transactions.

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Julien Louis, editor Webtoon.

After studying at UCL (Université catholique de Louvain) in Digital Marketing and Public Relations, Julien went to New Zealand to work at Black Label Experience, as Project Manager to launch this luxury tourism agency. When he returned to Belgium he was hired by the Éditions Dupuis where he quickly started as Project Manager for the Webtoon Factory. He is now its Editor.

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Maria Bonaria Fois, CEO Mondo TV IberoAmerica.

Maria Bonaria Fois has almost 25 years of professional experience in the audiovisual industry and the Ibero-American market. She has been the Head of Mondo TV Iberoamérica’s management since 2008, in which time she has contributed significantly to the growth of the company’s business, especially in the field of co-productions. Her introduction to the audio-visual industry, in September 1993, was as Sales Executive at PPM Multimedia, a Spanish distributor of films, documentaries and animation films. She became Director of international sales in January 1996, continuing in that role until June 2000. From August 2000 until October 2004 she worked at BRB International, S.A, the Spanish producer of series such as “David el Gnomo” and “Willy Fog”, first as Sales Director and later as Director of the audiovisual department. From November 2004 until August 2006 she worked at ELG Media Group, LLC, as CoFounder and Director of sales and acquisitions. Subsequently, from September 2006 to December 2007, she worked at BKN New Media, S.L., a subsidiary of the animation production company based in Hong Kong, serving as VP Sales & Marketing Consultant, before joining Mondo TV Iberoamérica in 2008. She has a degree in political science from the University of Cagliari, Italy.

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director, producer and animator Marino Guarnieri.

Director, animator, illustrator was born and grow up and based in Naples. Assistant director, head of 2D and editor of the animated feature film L’arte della felicità (2013), produced by Mad Entertainment and winner of the European Film Awards in 2014 for Best European Animated Film. After working as a graphic designer, through all forms of expression and communication in the last 20 years, from publishing to advertising, from the web to the audiovisual and video installations, in the end he discovers his true love: the animation. He conceives, designs and participates in the creation of commercials and music videos, television themes and educational products, documentaries, specials and feature films. Among his works: La buona uscita (2016), animated clip in the fiction feature film. Donna Maria (2014), video clip of the Neapolitan folk music group FOJA; Gli occhi più azzurri (2010), a documentary by Simona Cappiello and Manolo Turri Dell’Orto; Giga & Stick (2009) , Educational made for The National Institute for Astrophysics. Bada che ti mangio! (2009) (Mind you, I’ll eat you!) realization of the code of the program by Antonio Lubrano. He is also Professor of Digital Entertainment at the Italian School of Comix, for which he directed the commercial “Chi sogna disegna” and the short film Mezzanotte di Segni (2015). He directed his first animation feature film Gatta Cenerentola (2017), alongside Ivan Cappiello, Alessandro Rak and Dario Sansone. The movie has been selected to compete in the Orizzonti category at 74th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. He is also a board member for ASIFA Italia (International Association for Animated Films).

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Riley Stearns, director of the film The Art of Self Defence.

Riley Stearns gives us an outstanding film, with Jesse Eisenberg and Alessandro Nivola in a state of grace. He tells us what interested him when he was writing the film and his ideas on shooting and framing a story for the big screen.

The Art of Self Defence: A dark comedy set in the world of karate. The film centers on Casey (Jesse Eisenberg), who is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei (Alessandro Nivola), in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman (Imogen Poots) fighting for her place in it. Casey undertakes a journey, both frightening and darkly funny, that will place him squarely in the sights of his enigmatic new mentor.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jacqueline Zünd, director of the film Where We Belong.

Director Jacqueline Zünd presented her latest documentary, Where We Belong, at the 2019 Transilvania International Film Festival. The documentary is seen from the point of view of kids and talks about the seperation of their parents. Zünd talks about the importance of treating the children who are the protagonists of her movie with respect and how the topic of children and the separation of their parents is talked about in media. She also talks about the personal motives that inspired Where We Belong, and how a film can contributed to the discourse regarding the themes, topics and issues that it discusses.

Where We Belong: Parents split up, a family falls apart. Two separate worlds emerge from what once was considered a unity. In constant transition, children now live between two homes. This film approaches their reality and focuses on how brave, smart and funny children perceive their situation.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Sebastián Lelio, director of the film Gloria Bell.

We sit down with Academy-award winning Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio ahead of the release of Gloria Bell to find out how an English language cover version of his 2013 film Gloria came about with the fabulous Julianne Moore in the title role. He talks us through the process of revisiting his material with Moore, whose spell-binding performance the film rests on, how the other films he made in the interim, A Fantastic Woman and Disobedience, influenced his filmmaking style and the timeliness of the release of his remake.

Gloria Bell: Gloria Bell follows the everyday life of a middle-aged divorcee (Julianne Moore) living alone in LA who works in insurance, smokes, is kept on the outside of the lives of her grown-up children but finds her release in going out to dance. She starts a love affair with a man she meets in a club, Arnold (John Turturro), which opens her up to new experiences and sets her on a path of self-discovery. Julianne Moore is astonishing in her nuanced portrayal of Gloria in this remake of Sebastián Lelio’s 2013 original which is full of counteracting moments of precision and ambiguity, tragedy and humour. In exploring themes of freedom, sexuality, aging, feminity, the absurdity and beauty in the everyday, the film’s meandering narrative rarely provides straight answers but rather holds an overarching sentiment that in the face of life’s challenges, it’s best to keep on dancing.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Michel Reilhac.

Michel is a narrative architect and long-time transmedia and immersive media pioneer. Michel Reilhac is known as a leading international expertforinnovation in hybrid storytelling across participatory, interactive and immersive experiences. As the Head of Studies at the Venice Biennale College, the VR competition curator for the Venice Biennale International Film Festival since its inaugural competition in 2017, Michel is regularly invited to speak and teach at major international events, including the Cannes International Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, TEDx, CPH:DOX, Dixit, Power to the Pixel, Sunny Side of the Doc, FEMIS and many more. As a speaker and educator, Michel is renowned for his comprehensive and critical understanding of the immersive media landscape, as well as for his focus on innovation in the creative development and application of narratives – not only in film and television, but in broader media and communication contexts, where new storytelling practices are disrupting conventional models. In his teaching, Michel focuses in particular on enabling filmmakers to find a platform for fresh and daring stories that deserve an audience. He strives to allow artists to appropriate XR as a new art form and focuses on immersive storytelling as an artistic medium. Michel is currently developing an international residency on the island of Lamu, Kenya. This residency seeks to foster innovative work by creators and small teams from across East Africa, and lay the foundations for a VR hub that celebrates Swahili culture. From 2002-2012, Michel was Head of Cinema & Film Acquisitions at Arte France and Executive Director of Arte France Cinema, co-producing around 30 international independent feature films each year, including Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Melancholia. In 2013, Michel was named Man of the Year 2012 in Film by industry magazine Le Film Français. Michel is also a virtual reality filmmaker himself – his first production Viens! premiered at Sundance in 2016. In 2017-2018 Michelwas Head of the award-winning independent production company Submarine Channel in Amsterdam. Currently, he also curates the immersive content programme at Series Mania in Lille, France.

This interview was recorded during the Cartoon Digital Festival 2019, in partnership with the Sardinia Film Commission, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Nashen Moodley, festival director of the Sydney Film Festival.

Festival director Nashen Moodley inspires us pointing out that this year’s program “holds a mirror to titanic shifts culturally and politically, with films that will challenge and excite us. Shining a light on subjects that are often little explored or seen, these films are an invitation for us to collectively reflect on who we are, and what may lay ahead.”

Nashen talks about this year’s program that “celebrates a resurgent year of Australian cinema, with an exceptional selection of contemporary Australian stories including 23 World Premieres, with great Australian storytellers join globally renowned filmmakers to share crucial perspectives on our world.” The festival also strongly supports “talented women filmmakers, in an industry still struggling with equality. With the Europe! Voices of Women in Film strand, and retrospective programs celebrating pioneering women including our tribute to the late Agnès Varda, the Festival this year has signed the 5050×2020 pledge, committing to working towards gender parity and inclusion in film festivals.”

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