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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Melody Roscher, producer of the film Christine.

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Melody Roscher tells us all about building up such a challenging film and how difficult was raising the money for an uncomfortable film on a real woman who so little was known of. Rebecca Hall was the blessing they were waiting for as she brought the film to the highest possible level, with an outstanding performance.

Christine. The early 1970s. Christine Chubbuck is a young journalist, awkward and introverted. She works for a local broadcaster in Florida and despite her desire to grow professionally, she is in conflict with the TV director, who wants news items which grab the spectators’ attention, to the detriment of the quality of the news. Deeply hurt, already unstable and insecure because of her inability to make friends with the others, Christine falls into a state of neurosis which leads her to commit a shocking act on live TV. Based on a true story.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Hadas Yaron and Don McKellar, members of the jury of the 34th Torino Film Festival.

Actress Hadas Yaron and actor-director Don McKellar are at the 34th Torino Film Festival as members of the official jury chaired by Ed Lachman. They haven’t established a criteria to judge the first, second and third film in the official competition but on FRED they reveal the elements and the aspects that they’re moved by while watching a film and evaluating it. From the musicals to horror films, McKellar and Yaron confess their “cinematographic” guilty pleasures.

Hadas Yaron (Israel), grew up in Tel Aviv, studied acting and debuted in cinema at fourteen years of age. In 2012, she won the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for her performance in Fill the Void by Rama Burshtein, in which she plays a young Jewish girl from Tel Aviv who is forced to become engaged to her brother-in-law after her sister dies. In 2014, she won Best Actress at the Torino Film Festival for Felix and Meira by Maxime Giroux. At the 33rd Torino Film Festival, she received the 500X Award – Fiat for her performance in La felicità è un sistema complesso by Gianni Zanasi (2015).

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michael O’Shea, director of the film The Transfiguration.

The 34th Torino Film Festival is the tenth festival that Michael O’Shea participates to with his first feature film The Transfiguration. It all started at the last Festival de Cannes where the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section. At the Torino Film Festival, this story of a young boy escaping reality and pretending to be a vampire, is programmed in the perfect section for a horror film, Afterhours. The choice of the horror genre can be easily defined as a device to actually tell a very profound and troubled coming of age story that O’Shea dedicated to all the people, especially adolescents, that are struggling to find their place in the world and feel like outsiders.

The Transfiguration. Adolescent Milo lives an isolated life in New York: a friendless orphan, he is the victim of violence and bullying at school. His only refuge is his brother’s apartment, where he escapes his solitude and frustration by immersing himself in the world of vampires through movies and novels. When he meets Sophie, the next-door-neighbor, unfamiliar feelings are sparked in him. This is an unexpected change for Milo and it forces him to control the secret, disquieting urges which prey on him.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Adrian Sitaru and Mariette Rissenbeek, members of the jury of the 34th Torino Film Festival.

Romanian Director Adrian Sitaru and General Manager of German Films Mariette Rissenbeek are two members of the official competition jury at the 34th Torino Film Festival. Chaired by cinematographer Ed Lachman, the jury is also composed by actress Hadas Yaron and actor-director Don McKellar. What’s the role and the importance of film festivals nowadays? The jurors try to analyze arthouse cinema situation at the moment and how film festivals can help in distributing it to a wider audience.

Mariette Rissenbeek (The Netherlands) studied German Language and Literature. After working at an advertising agency in Berlin, she switched to the film industry and started working at the distribution company Tobis Film, where she was also involved in the co-production of Wim Wenders’ Faraway, So Close! In 1995, she joined Regina Ziegler Filmproduktion; she then founded her own production company in Hamburg and produced Mika Kaurismäki’s Highway Society. She later joined Hofmann & Voges Entertainment in Munich and in 2002 moved on to German Films Service + Marketing GmbH, where she is currently General Manager. Adrian Sitaru (Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. In 2007, with the short film Waves, he won the Golden Pardino – Leopards of Tomorrow at the Locarno Film Festival for best international short film. His debut feature film, Hooked (2008), premiered at Venice Days and established him as one of the most important new voices in Romanian post-communist cinema. He will be presenting two films at this year’s Torino Film Festival: Ilegitim and Fixeur, both made in 2016.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Chesley “Sully” Sullenberg, the real life character of last Clint Eastwood film Sully.

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Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets the real Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who, in 2009, saved the lives of 150 passengers of the US Airways flight 1549 by landing on the Hudson River after a bird strike irrevocably damaged the plane. In the film captain Chesley is played by the Oscar winner Tom Hanks. Clint Eastwood based his new film Sully on the captain’s book “Highest Duty”that described what happened after the heroic gesture in the days following the extraordinary event. Cold blood and problem solving are capacities and abilities that we all can acquire with time and experience or are a talent that we can only improve? Sully has all the answers and they are the right ones.

Sully. On January 15th, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia airport in New York, heading to Charlotte, North Carolina. There were a hundred and fifty passengers on board of the flight piloted by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and copilot Jess Skiles. But a flock of birds flew into the plane engines at 2,800 feet, forcing the pilot to perform an emergency water landing, which he executed perfectly. Everybody on board survived in what became known as the “Miracle on the Hudson,” all thanks to Sully’s pilot skills and experience. The incident, however, had an emotionally devastating effect on the captain, especially after a few witness reports put his career and reputation in jeopardy and he was summoned by the National Transportation Safety Board to defend his actions.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gabe Klinger and Lucie Lucas, director and actress of the film Porto.

Gabe Klinger is back on Fred to present his first feature film Porto in competition at the Torino Film Festival. The film stars Lucie Lucas and the late Anton Yelchin and it portrays a tormented and passionate love story set in the portuguese city. After winning the 2013 Venice Classics award with his documentary Double Play, Klinger reveals the reasons behind the choice of a love story for his first feature film and how he worked on the visuals ( he shot in super 8 and 35mm) to give the film a particular sense of melancholy and vintage feeling to the universal themes analyzed. French actress Lucie Lucas tells us about her involvement in the film, the casting process and the unique experience of working with Anton Yelchin. Without him, the film wouldn’t have been the same.

Porto. Two foreigners live in the city of Oporto, the American Jake [Anton Yelchin, in his final acting appearance, editor’s note] and the girl Mati, a student from France. Destiny seems to be toying with them, as they run into each other at different times and places. Jake takes advantage of the opportunity provided by these casual encounters, gets up his courage and approaches Mati. Despite the good start, it isn’t the beginning of a love story but a one night stand. The memory of that night will return insistently in the lives of these two occasional lovers, showing them the power of an encounter.

Porto by Gabe Klinger starring Anton Yelchin – clip (meeting in a bar) from New Europe Film Sales on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rafael Palacio Illingworth, director of the film Between Us.

 With his second feature film Between Us, Rafael Palacio Illingworth opens the 34th Torino Film Festival. The film, analyzing a couple going through that passage in life in which marriage could become an option after years of living together. the idea of the film came from Illingworth’s real experience with his partner that afterwards became his wife. Why are we never happy of what we have and we’re always looking for more emotions, passion, attention outside the life we should be happy and glad in? Palacio Illingworth tries to answer with Between us.

Between Us. Henry and Dianne, both thirty years old, must come to grips with the reality of their life as a couple: the years of their youth, made of adventures, new encounters and a future waiting to be discovered, are over. What awaits them is the nightmare of normality and adulthood: a house in the suburbs, one or more children, and a dog to walk. But is this really what they want? When the tension results in a separation – albeit for just one night – they will find the answers they are searching for.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marta Gastini, Analeigh Tipton, actresses of the film Sadie.

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Marta Gastini and Analeigh Tipton, the protagonists of Sadie, screening at the 34th Torino Film Festival in Festa Mobile. The two actresses talk about their involvement in the film project and their work together in portraying at the same time two faces of their characters. Analeigh is Sadie and Marta is Francesca. Through their interaction and their evolution, director Craig Goodwill explored the thin line between our desires and their impact on our souls.

Sadie, is an emerging writer. Her ex invites her to Italy to celebrate the publication of her new book. There she meets Francesca, inscrutable and mysterious. The two women find themselves in a remote villa from another time where nothing is at it seems.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Craig Goodwill, Jakob Cedergren, Valentin Merlet, director and actors of the film Sadie.

After a long research, Craig Goodwill found in Turin the perfect location for his psychological thriller Sadie so there couldn’t anywhere else to premiere it but at the Torino Film Festival. At the Fred’s studio in Torino, Goodwill talks about the making of the film with the male protagonists of the story, Jakob Cedergren and Valentin Merlet. Cedergren plays the ex-lover, the one representing the demons of Sadie’s dark past. Merlet represents the better life Sadie could have. They simbolically portray the constant battle between love and passion and our search for a balance in these two components through our life.

Sadie, a budding erotic novelist who, along with an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at an Italian villa. Once there, Sadie is confronted by the demons of her past as she becomes embroiled in a surreal game of murder and betrayal.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Armin Miladi, festival director of the International Film Festival Australia (IFFA)

The Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA) returns for its sixth year, shining a spotlight on contemporary life in Iran in cinemas across Australia.

Co-festival director Armin Miladi talks about the Iranian film industry that is bursting with creativity and new energy in this new political era. IFFA has hand-picked the very best. The line-up includes Life and a Day, the debut feature from 26-year-old Saeed Roostaie which won several awards, Reza Mirkarimi’s award winning Daughter, directly from Cannes Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman and fresh from Berlin Reza Dormeshian’s Lantouri. All Australian premieres (with the exception of The Salesman, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year).

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