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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Brigitta Manthey, financial advisor at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Brigitta Manthey, the financial advisor at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, the main institution for the film and media industry in the German capital region, provides funding for films, high-end drama series and film-related projects, advises filmmakers on financing issues and supports the development of the film industry. During the course of 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, she gave a talk highlighting film funding in Germany and opportunities of international co-productions (Germany remains the most active co-producing partner for Southeast Europe).

In this interview, she highlights the activities relating to the film funding division of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, regarding national and international co-productions. Among the topics discussed: the selection criteria, the percentage of current Medienboard international co-productions, the current decreasing trend of its budgets for films from the Southeast European region, and much more.

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is the main institution for the film and media industry in the German capital region. The Film Funding division provides funding for films, high end drama series and film-related projects, advises filmmakers on financing issues, and supports the development of the film industry. The Media Business Development division represents Berlin-Brandenburg as a key media location in Germany at international markets and festivals, provides market research and analysis and organizes networking events. The department funds media-related projects, serial formats as well as the development of content in the games, web, mobile and VR categories.

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PODCAST | Flavia Dima interviews director Sonja Rakić and producer Ana Renovica on their Pack & Pitch project from the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

So, Where the Hell is My Prince Charming? is a Serbian documentary-in-development which was presented at Sarajevo FF’s Pack and Pitch event, which included six regional projects competing for the chance to participate in next year’s Sarajevo CineLink production programme and 4000 euro worth of post-production sound services.

As they aim to finish shooting by 2019, young director Sonja Rakić and producer Ana Renovica discuss in the following interview about how they started working on the project, which tells the story of Danica Rusov, an elderly lady who is trying to overcome her past demons with the help of a psychotherapist. Sonja and Ana also give specific insights into the difference between producing a fiction feature and a documentary, budgeting, opinions about how people in the Balkan area relate to the notion of psychotherapy and why it is necessary, along with many other interesting details.

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

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PODCAST | Arman Fatic interviews Diana Paroiu, junior producer of I Hate Berlin, with which she took part in the Pack & Pitch program of Talents Sarajevo at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Arman Fatic, press participant of the Talents Sarajevo 2017 program, interviews Romanian junior producer Diana Paroiu. In this interview, Paroiu introduces her project I Hate Berlin, which was selected for the Pack & Pitch project of Talents Sarajevo at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

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PODCAST | Arman Fatic interviews Ermin Bravo, actor and 11th Talents Sarajevo mentor, at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Bosnian actor Ermin Bravo is one of the mentors of the Acting Studio in this years Talents Sarajevo edition, which takes place during the course of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Aside from his activities as a mentor of the Talents, Ermin appeared in the Festival this year with three films, Semih Kaplanoglu’s The Grain, Alen Drljevic’s Men Don’t cry, and Faruk Sabanovic’s Birds Like Us. We took this chance to talk with Ermin about his career from being one of the Talents, 11 years ago, to becoming

We took this chance to talk with Ermin about his career from being one of the Talents, 11 years ago, to becoming recognisable Bosnian actor and Talents mentor. Ermin also takes the time to answer about his roles, casting choices and ways he prepares for films.

Interview by Arman Fatic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Zdenka Gold, producer of All Alone, presented at CineLink at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

We meet producer Zdenka Gold at CineLink of the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival. Here, she presented a new project, All Alone, in the CineLink Work in Progress section. The film’s director and writer is Bobo Jelčić, and the production is from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gold tells us about the director and gives us more insightful info about this upcoming project. She also talks about other things, including her experience (past and present) at CineLink, the perks of working with directors who do not come from a strictly cinematic background, and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Milan Stojanović, producer of two upcoming projects – The Users, and The Last Socialist Artefact, presented at CineLink at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Producer Milan Stojanovic presented two projects at CineLink: one, a feature-length project named The Users, he presented at the CineLink Co-Production Market; the other, The Last Socialist Artefact, is a series presented at the CineLink Drama section. Stojanovic tells us about both projects (and talks about Ivan Ikic, who will be directing The Users) and interestingly tells us about what the main differences between presenting a series and a feature film, whether at CineLink or anywhere else, are.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Boban Jevtić, general manager of Film Center Serbia, from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

An introduction to Film Center Serbia, one of the key film institutions in Serbia, indeed, founded more than twenty years ago especially as an institute for film. We meet the general manager of the institution, Boban Jevtić, to talk about its many activities, at the Sarajevo Film Festival. He reveals to us that he hopes that Film Center Serbia will soon not only take care of the film sector but the audiovisual in general. We also focus on productions and co-productions, including selection criteria, its focus on co-productions with other countries from the Balkan regions, and selection criteria, as well as examples of recent notable co-productions. Other topics discussed in this interview include film education and Film Center Serbia’s activities at the Sarajevo Film Festival and CineLink.

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PODCAST | Mina Stanikic of the 11th Talents Sarajevo interviews documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer from the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

This year’s edition of Sarajevo Film Festival pays tribute to documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. The audience of the festival had the chance to see two of Oppenheimer’s films: The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), both shot in Indonesia, where Oppenheimer spent almost a decade researching on the genocide that took place in 1965.

Even though both films depict the consequences of the genocide, the second one is not a sequel, but rather a part that completes the story that the first film opened: genocide executors in today’s world. For Fred Film Radio, Oppenheimer talks about his first contacts with Indonesia, which also had to do with documentary filmmaking, but had nothing to do with 50 years old genocide. He talks about his experience of living with the gangsters, about how his work affected and still affects lives of both executors and victims, as well as why he decided to show this specific genocide of all the genocides that happened in the recent world’s history. Oppenheimer also reveals his plans for future filmmaking, considering the fact that his past is largely set in Indonesia, a country he is no longer able to enter, as it might endanger his life.

Interview by Mina Stanikic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Elliott Crosset Hove, actor of the film Winter Brothers, Best Actor of Locarno70.

Elliott Crosset Hove is back on FRED with Chiara Nicoletti to comment his PARDO Award for Best Actor in the film Winter Brothers and to thank his girlfriend for her constant support during this long and difficult film journey.

Winter Brothers: his face emerges from the chalk powder, his body stands out among the thin trees of a white forest or snaps to attention as shown on an old army videotape. The figure of Emil, lead of Vinterbrødre (Winter Brothers), can’t be separated from the physical presence of Elliott Crosset Hove, the young Danish actor who, after graduating at Danske Scenekunstskole in 2015, has already earned two nominations for the Robert of Danmarks Film Akademi awards and, this year, the Årets Reumert Talentpris theatrical award. It is not surprising then that the actor was chosen by Hlynur Pálmason even before writing the screenplay, giving means to the Icelandic filmmaker (his feature film debut) to draw Emil on the skin of Crosset Hove, with whom he had already worked on his own diploma short, A Painter (2013). In the film, Elliott Crosset Hove drops into the white: of the icy winter forest and the density of the chalk mine in which Emil works. White is also the character of his persona, wild-eyed and marginalized, who dreams of his neighbor while he distills strange liquors with chemicals stolen from the mine, it is not whether it’s a naïve game or a subtle vengeance towards those who keep him at a distance (and here the actor implies a disturbing ambiguity in his interpretation). So white is also the mark of the coldness of his relationship with the other factory workers – beside him, only his brother Johan (Simon Sears, the other focus point of the film). To tell of the loneliness and anxiety of being loved by Emil, Pálmason plays with the body of Elliott Crosset Hove, making it a compositional element in the rigorous geometries of the shots (it is not surprising that the director is also an artist) and letting lengthy footage allow his expressions and his gestures to vibrate on the screen.

For the official page of the winning film on the festival website, click here.

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews Wang Bing, director of the film Mrs. Fang, winner of the Golden Leopard of Locarno70.

Olivier Assayas’ international jury’s verdict is in, and the Golden Leopard goes to Mrs. Fang, a masterpiece of a documentary by Wang Bing which, behind its deceptively simple title and its respectful, seemingly observational approach, hides an all-encompassing, perfectly wrought piece of cinematic grammar that might as well be called As I Lay Dying.

Mrs. Fang: as reality continues to constantly change guise and light, all one can do is document this eternal changing atmospheric fiction, aware that any record one wants to make will never be just a record, nor just a document, but the record of a vision. All the more so if the record concerns the transition from life to death and the vision is the magic circle with which Wang Bing encloses a family waiting to say goodbye to their elderly Alzheimer’s-stricken mother, Mrs. Fang. Increasingly, in Wang Bing’s works (the latest seem to form a single discourse, from Ta’ang to Ku Qian) there is a magic circle where attachment to life and disorientation for the fractures that compose it signify both a poetic sign of ancient archaism and centuries-old myths before they are lost. The director travels through his China, without destination, the only idea being to survive. Wang Bing is so inside the events that he can interiorize the sense of disorientation, as when he follows the family members during their night-time fishing in the surrounding swamps. Documentary? Yes, if by documentary one means that natural space of time necessary for the narration of reality to reach an even more natural transparency of vision. No need for staging because the immense and overriding narrativity (we could say really fiction) of the real is clear to the director. The journey to the other side of Mrs. Fang is one of desperate beauty, etched in a perfect and perfectly suspended filmic duration, which gives the sense of the leap into the dark mixed with hope, of the fear and desire of those who remain.

For the official page of the winning film on the festival website, click here.

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