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PODCAST | Aslı Ildır interviews Senad Šahmanović, future director of Sirin, presented at Pack & Pitch of 11th Talents Sarajevo.

Montenegrin director Senad Šahmanović, the future director of Sirin, and also the winner of the Pack & Pitch of Sarajevo Film Festival told us about his story and his inspirations behind the project. Sirin, which is a name based on a Eastern European legend, tells the story of a Parisienne lawyer who goes back to her hometown in Montenegro for an inheritance case. Sahmanovic’s story is about being in limbo and its consequences, which was inspired by his producer’s personal experience.

Interview by Aslı Ildır, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Aslı Ildır interviews Rati Oneli, director City of the Sun, from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Rati Oneli, director of a beautiful and uncanny documentary, City of the Sun, from Georgia that had its world premiere in 2017 Berlin Film Festival’s Forum section, won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film. The director tells the story of a post-industrial town in the middle of Georgia – a mysterious place that he actually found by pure coincidence- and daily lives of two mine workers interested in singing and acting. Oneli was the guest of the Talents Sarajevo where he gave a talk about his visual preferences and inspirations, including visuals by Werner Herzog, a director he seems to be inspired a lot. We talked with Oneli about his characters, how he relates them with the beautiful landscapes he used in City of the Sun, and the balance between the distance and sincerity in his approach to his characters as a documentary filmmaker.

Interview by Aslı Ildır, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Lana Mihailovic interviews filmmaker Peter Webber from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

During the 11th Sarajevo Talents, young filmmakers had the chance to meet and speak with film industry professionals, usually in a form of a masterclass. One of these was held by the director Peter Webber and screenwriter Olivia Hetreed. More than 10 years after working together, these two meet again to talk to Sarajevo Talents Directors and share the experiences from their careers. Thanks to that occasion, FRED Film Radio had a chance to speak to Webber, director of such films as Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003), Hannibal: Rising (2007) and the mini-series Tutankhamun (2016). While commenting on his interaction with young filmmakers, he pointed out that one of the things he likes to do is to break any sort of illusions that they may have about their chosen careers, before it happens in a much more painful way. We also touched the subject of his first Spanish speaking film, Carteristas, which is the second collaboration with Hetreed and is a story of a pickpocketer and is set in the city of Bogota, Columbia.

Interview by Lana Mihailovic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Lana Mihailovic interviews director Patricia D’Intino on her Pack & Pitch project, Pinkler, from the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

Participants of the Sarajevo Talents Pack and Pitch programme worked for 6 days on the pitches for their projects and had the chance to present them in front of the jury in hope to get the support they need to film their features. One of those participants is Patricia D’intino, a young producer from Hungary, who founded a Budapest based boutique production company „Good Kids“ and who talked to FRED Film Radio about Pinkler and her experience in Sarajevo. The story Patricia wants to tell, together with her team, is one of a young girl named Pinkler and her travel through the channels of foster homes. This future feature, based on a novel, touches on the subject of the social care system, but also the representation of Roma people. The importance of these subjects and the discussion this story could provoke is something that was highlighted during Patricia’s pitch, but also during our interview.

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PODCAST | Mónika Bajnóczi interviews director Marko Crnogorski on his Pack & Pitch project, Bunker, from the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

The Macedonian director and co-writer of Bunker introduces his first feature project and talks about his experiences as a participant of Talent Sarajevo.

Since 2010, several emerging producers and directors have prepared their projects for the marketplace within the Pack & Pitch framework. Over the course of Sarajevo Film Festival, participants are mentored by experts and eventually have to present their projects to the jury as well as the public.

Bunker is the story of teenager Toni and his amnesiac veteran father Nikola who lock themselves in a shelter inside their apartment for Nikola’s safety. After briefly introducing his movie at the public pitching in Sarajevo’s Hotel Europe, director Marko Crnogorski tells us about the writing process with his co-writer Jana Paunoska, the traumatic experience with his country’s health care system that inspired the story of Bunker, along with giving his impressions of the 11th Talents Sarajevo programme and how it helped him to develop his filmmaking skills.

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PODCAST | Flavia Dima interviews Jessica Hausner at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Austrian film director Jessica Hausner, known for directing titles such as Lourdes (2009) and Amour Fou (2014), is at Sarajevo Film Festival as one of the special-guest mentors of its Talents program – which meant that we had the perfect occasion to stop her for a quick interview. In the interview below, taken by Sarajevo Talent Press participant Flavia Dima, you can listen to Hausner discussing about her role in mentoring the young directors participating at the festival and her views on the fresh generations of filmmakers, as well as her thoughts on female protagonists, directing techniques and their impact upon cinematic storytelling, along with exclusive information about her upcoming film, which is currently in development.

 Interview by Flavia Dima, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Hrvoje Pukšec, creative producer at Pari Pikule who talked about Secret Arts Cinema at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Secret Arts Cinema (SAC), presented by Pari Pikule, is a themed film-event programme held in various cities across Croatia that explores the world of arts and crafts, design, and architecture by presenting the work of selected artists. Hrvoje Puksec, creative producer at Pari Pikule (a non-profit organization that works on production and projects, subsequently creating new platforms for the development of the audiovisual industry), talks about these interesting events, which he gave a talk on during CineLink of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival. In this interview, he describes in great detail this exciting way of exhibiting films that would otherwise remain unseen by audiences or that, in any case, do not get the exposure that they deserve.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Nerina Kocjancic, head of the Slovenian Film Center, from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival

We meet Nerina Kocjancic, director of the Slovenian Film Center, at CineLink during the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival. Given that this is the first interview with a representative of the Slovenian Film Center, we ask her about the various activities it is involved with – from film restoration or older Slovenian films to the distribution and production of contemporary movies by way of film education. Kocjancic was also involved in one of this year’s CineLink Talks, specifically one titled “Fiscal Incentives for Film and TV in Southeast Europe.” We ask her about it and also ask her to give us an example of a new interesting co-production that the Slovenian Film Center has been involved with.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews photojournalist Ron Haviv and professor Lauren Walsh at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Ron Haviv, photojournalist, and Lauren Walsh, professor at New York University, are collaborating on a documentary titled Biography of a Photo, currently in production. They presented their project at CineLink during the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, where they also gave a talk titled “From Photography to Film.”

In Biography of a Photo, their first feature, the main characters are two photographs, both taken by Haviv: one from Panama in 1989 and the other from Bosnia in 1992. Through them, Haviv and Walsh explore the afterlives of images, what they reveal about how societies move forward beyond trauma, how visual media shape our political and social lives and more. In this interview, they discuss some of these themes.

Other topics discussed include the definition of iconic photography, the challenges of shooting the documentary, Haviv’s personal relationship to the photographs he took and how this has evolved over time, and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker Damjan Kozole, who presented his project Half-Sister at CineLink at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Having met filmmaker Damjan Kozole at the 2016 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where he presented Nightlife, we catch up with him once again. This time, we meet him in the middle of a busy CineLink co-production market, where he presented his next project, Half-Sister.

The synopsis on the CineLink program states that Half-Sister is about: “two estranged half-sisters [whose] relationship [is] marked by their father’s past [who] are forced to move in together,” and that it is “a film about feeling responsible for someone else’s film.” Kozole tells us more about it and also discusses his current interests about strong female characters (and later about why the protagonists of this upcoming film will be half-sisters), the use that he will make of humour in Half-Sister, and more. Given that this is not the first time Kozole attends neither the Sarajevo Film Festival nor its co-production market, we ask him about his experiences here.

Edit: Half-Sister written by Damjan Kozole and Ursa Menart won Eurimages Co-production Development Award at CineLink.

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