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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Matthieu Darras, director of First Cut Lab.   

Matthieu Darras founded First Cut Lab to help filmmakers and producers in one of the most difficult steps in the making of their films: the editing process. As a result of this lab’s success, First Cut+ is born, a follow-up on this help chain, regarding this time, the promotion and communication part, including the festival strategy. 8 films will be participating to First Cut+ whose Head is Ilaria Gomarasca, former Festival Manager at Pyramide International and three industry awards will be given: Orka Film Award, Sub-Ti and Sub-Ti Access award and Connecting the Dots award.

First Cut+ is a new program created for boosting the competitiveness and marketability of feature films that previously participated in First Cut Lab. The program will be launched in 2020 through a close cooperation with two dynamic & well-established film industry platforms: Trieste’s When East Meets West and Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days. Films developed through partner programs MIDPOINT Feature Launch and LIM – Less is More are also eligible to participate. First Cut+ is the only new action that received financial support from the Access to Markets scheme of Creative Europe’s MEDIA program this year. First Cut+ consists in the promotion of a portfolio of 16 fiction feature films at the stage of post-production, predominantly from countries with a low production capacity (at least 75% of the films) and with a focus on Central & Eastern Europe. The range of films will be large: from both debut & experienced directors, small and larger budgets. 8 films – half of the portfolio – are promoted during the winter session at Trieste’s When East Meets West (January 2020), and another half during the summer session, at Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days (early July 2020), enabling to welcome most eligible projects, no matter the timeline of their production. Participating projects will have 3 days of consultations on promotion followed by a Works-in-progress session.

To discover more about First Cut, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Małgorzata Janczak, Founder and Head of Connect the Dots Film Agency.  

When she founded her company Connect the Dots in Poland, Małgorzata Janczak had a mission: to help filmmakers and producers to build their brand, to communicate their film, to present their work to the world in the best way possible. At the First Cut+, Janczak is one of the experts who will hold a masterclass for the participants (8 films) and will give an award, the first for Connect the Dots, which will allow the winner to have the company by their side to better create their film strategy.

Małgorzata Janczak, born and raised in Warsaw, began her adventure with film over 15 years at Film Polski where she worked as a promotion consultant for student films, shorts and first features. In 2007 she went on to work as main promotion specialist in the International Cooperation department of the Polish Film Institute. From 2012 on she worked on international film promotion, creative production and brand building as a freelancer with such directors as Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Daria Woszek and Raul de la Fuente. All projects she has shepherded have achieved international success and were invited to top-tier film festivals, including Cannes, Berlinale, Sundance, Montreal and Toronto to name a few. In 2018 she set up her own shop called Connect the Dots Film Agency where she acts as film pr manager, publicist and brand manager for up and coming film directors. This year’s projects worked on by Connect the Dots include Curator by Petr Levchenko (Warsaw Film Festival) and Naked Coast by Michał Krzywicki (European Genre Forum – Black Nights Tallin FF).

To discover more about First Cut+, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh, actresses of the film Little Women. 

Saoirse Ronan (Ladybird) and Florence Pugh (Midsommar) talk to FRED about sisterhood, their depiction of Greta Gerwig on the set of Little Women and their feelings about the lack of nominations for the film in the Golden Globes.

Little Women: Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Greta Gerwig, director of the film Little Women. 

After Ladybird, Greta Gerwig directs a new version of Little Women, the classical novel by Louisa May Alcott. Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Timothée Chalamet are the lead protagonists of the movie, set in the American 19th century.

Little Women: Louisa May Alcott’s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ken Loach, director of the film Sorry We Missed You. 

After his Festival de Cannes’ premiere, Ken Loach has just presented his latest film, Sorry We Missed You to the Italian audience as it will be in italian cinema theatres with Lucky Red distribution from January 2nd on. Despite the title which refers to the message couriers and drivers leave at a person when they can’t find them to pick up their package, the film deals with the absence of parents, the loneliness men and women feel when their life becomes all about their job and survival. Ken Loach gives once again a voice to over-exploited workers, not only drivers in his country, England, but people all over the world who feel they can’t get out of a vicious circle. The younger generations are our only hope, Ken Loach declares, especially when it comes to climate change problems. Greta Thunberg facing Trump is one great example of what young people can do if they only understand how much power they have to really change our world.

Sorry We Missed You: From director Ken Loach and the award-winning team behind I, Daniel Blake, comes Sorry We Missed You – a powerful exploration of the contemporary world of work, the gig economy and the challenges faced by one family trying to hold it all together.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actor Lien Binh Phat.

A conversation with Vietnamese Lien Binh Phat, one of the talents selected for Variety’s Asian Stars Up Next, the annual talent showcase hosted by the 2019 International Film Festivals and Awards Macao. Lien Binh Phat is the first Vietnamese actor to be selected for the talent showcase since its birth. In this interview, he tells us his very recent beginnings in acting, some of his influences and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actress Asmara Abigail.

A conversation with Indonesian actress Asmara Abigail, who is one of the talented actors selected for Variety’s Asian Stars Up Next talent showcase at the 2019 International Film Festival and Awards Macao. In this interview, she talks about the origins of her interest in acting and how she discovered that she had a talent for it. She also shares with us her opinion about why she often works within the horror genre but also whether she is afraid of being typecast and what it is that scares her in life, as well as much more. In addition, she talks about Homecoming, the film by Adriyanto Dewo that is presented at this festival in the International Competition.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Richie Mehta, Jury member for IFFAM 2019’s short film competition.

A conversation with film director Richie Mehta, member of the short film competition jury of the 2019 International Film Festival and Awards Macao. Mehta shares with us his thoughts on the importance on short filmmaking and its potential for unhinged expression. He also shares with us the story of how his 2007 feature debut Amal began its journey as a short, and how his background in journalism influences his filmmaking as a whole. During the course of this interview, Mehta also praises the good work done by IFFAM and its team, as well as his latest work, Dehli Crime, which premiered on Netflix earlier this year and that he defines as “a massive independent film.”

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews IFFAM artistic director Mike Goodridge.

A conversation with Mike Goodridge, artistic director of the International Film Festival Macao, recorded at the end of the festival’s fourth edition. Goodridge talks about the birth of his love for cinema, his interest in cinema from the East Asia and gives us his definition of Chinese cinema. He also talks about what it was that excited him about taking up the role of artistic director of IFFAM and how the festival has grown over the years.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Noah Cowan, New Chinese Cinema jury member.

An interview with Noah Cowan, former executive director of SFFILM (the non-profit organization behind San Francisco’s largest film festival) and jury member for the New Chinese Cinema Competition at the 2019 International Film Festival and Awards Macao. Being an expert, Cowan gives us an introduction to Chinese Cinema and some of its history, and tells us what the quality of the films in the New Chinese Cinema Competition has been like. He also talks about his time at SFFILM and how his background in philosophy has influenced his journey in the film industry throughout the years.

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