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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Eduardo Roy Jr., who talks about his new film Ordinary People from the 73rd Venice Film Festival [Venice Days]

Ordinary People is the story of a young couple living on the streets whose child is hopelessly kidnapped. This sets them off on a desperate search, and makes the narrative of the film, which Eduardo Roy Jr. presented in the Venice Days section of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. He joins us for an interview, in which he reveals his behind the scenes work on the film, in trying to achieve a sense of realism, which is also achieved thanks to his work in preparing and directing his young and somewhat inexperienced cast. The film was also shot right on the streets of Manila, which certainly evokes a sense of realism. But was it difficult to do that. Beyond Ordinary People, we discuss his interests as a filmmaker, and whether or as an artist he seeks for representation of realism in his works.

ORDINARY PEOPLE is a family portrait of Jane, 16, and her boyfriend, Aries, who live on their own in the chaotic streets of Manila. Surviving as pickpockets, the lives of the young couple change when they suddenly become teenage parents. But not even a month into parenthood, their child is stolen from them. In order to retrieve the child, the young couple is forced to take desperate measures.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ken Loach, director of I, Daniel Blake, at the film’s Italian presentation.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Ken Loach, in Rome for the Italian release of I, Daniel Blake. The film earned Ken Loach his second Palme d’Or in Cannes this year after The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006.

Loach tells us about the research he did to discover this sad world of poor people going through the bureaucratic nightmare of welfare policies. His protagonist Daniel and his friend Katie bounce on a wall when having to deal with the robot-like people that work in the job centre.

The film shows us how important it is to try and change the economic model in which we ‘re living and to work on building an european solidarity between countries but most of all, among working class people.

I, DANIEL BLAKE. Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Birgit Heidsiek, founder of Green Film Shooting, at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

FRED has the opportunity to talk to Birgit Heidsiek, founder of greenfilmshooting.net a magazine and portal that has the objective to spread new ways of making cinema while respecting and protecting the environment.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Antoine Fuqua, Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, who talk about The Magnificent Seven from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. With the sleepy town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople, led by Emma Cullen, employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns—Sam Chisolm, Josh Farraday, Goodnight Robicheaux, Jack Horne, Billy Rocks, Vasquez and Red Harvest. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews project manager Monique Catalino, who talks about Bozzetto Non Troppo from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Monique has become the voice of the Engish version of Bozzetto Non Troppo, a new documentary about the maestro in animation Bruno Bozzetto, presented in Venice in the section Venice Classics. An unespected development for her, usually working in promoting Italian cinema abroad, and now part of a movie she will work to promote. Strange as it may seems.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, president of the Venice Production Bridge, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

The director of Venice Production Brige shares with Fred Radio hia happiness for the succees of this year’s edition; great figures, great deals and an incresing number of accreditations that signals the right path has been chosen. And obviously his mind is already on the 2017 edition.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Emir Kusturica and actresses Monica Bellucci and Sloboda Mićalović, who talk about their film On The Milky Road from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

A quick chat with director Emir Kusturica and actresses Monica Bellucci and Sloboda Micalovic on one of the stand out movies of the 73rd Venice Film Festival: On the Milky Road. Upon getting a hold of them shortly after the movie’s official press conference in Venice, we sit down at our Radio Call studio to ask them a few questions.

It took Kusturica over three years to complete this project, and we ask him about why that was and why he was so committed to this particular story. Bellucci and Micalovic then talk about what drew them to the characters and how their attachment to their roles developed throughout the lengthy production.

ON THE MILKY ROAD. Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actress Julia Roy, who talks about her film Never Ever (À Jamais) from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

NEVER EVER (À JAMAIS). Laura and Rey live in a big secluded house by the sea. He is a filmmaker, she acts in performances she creates. Rey dies—accident, suicide? Leaving her alone in the house. But soon, she is no longer by herself. Someone is there, it’s Rey, by and for her, like a dream longer than the night, for her to survive.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Nicholas Verso and actors Toby Wallace and Mitzi Ruhlmann, who talk about their film Boys In The Trees from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

BOYS IN THE TREES. It’s Halloween 1997—the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a former childhood friend but now victimised by Jango’s cruel streak, Corey takes pity on him and agrees to walk him home for old time’s sake. What starts off as a normal walk through empty suburban streets descends into something darker and magical as they tell each other ghost stories, drawing upon their fears of the world around them. As they walk through their memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is surprised to discover how much he still has in common with his abandoned friend. But on the night of the grave’s delight, even the most buried truths will find a way of coming to life.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Lav Diaz, who talks about The Woman Who Left from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT. For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritablereclusio´n perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness have been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable for her. The year is 1997. Princess Diana dies in a violent car crash. The world is saddened by the death of Mother Theresa. And the Philippines is gripped with fear. It has become the kidnap capital of Asia.

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