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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jay Weissberg, director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Jay Weissberg’s first edition as director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival (Giornate del Cinema Muto) will take place from October 1st-8th. Excitement is hard to hold back as he anticipates some things we can expect from this year’s program, including special screenings of The Thief of Baghdad (1924) and a retrospective on the first even winner of Best Art Direction at the Academy Awards, William Cameron Menzies. On top of this, the festival hosts a collegium for young silent film enthusiasts, which Weissberg talks about. Jay Weissberg is, of course, also an established film critic, and us being at the Venice Film Festival, we ask him about his thoughts on this year’s edition of the oldest film festival in the world.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Simone Moraldi, education consultant of THE FILM CORNER, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

FRED Film Radio meets with Simone Moraldi, film literacy expert and FRED@school collaborator, to talk about the exciting new project of the Cineteca di Milano THE FILM CORNER.

The objectives of the project are to design, release and test an online digital virtual platform for film literacy, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by web 2.0 and innovative cross-media approaches in the digital era. Its intention is to raise the average film-literacy level of the EU’s young audiences. The general aim of the project is to create an easy-to-use model for film literacy that will improve film-literacy skills. The technical development will be supported by a set of offline knowledge transfer activities aimed at teachers and students. The goal is to share the platform and to explore its potential uses as a tool for pedagogical purposes in class.

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

FRED Film Radio has the opportunity to talk to Birgit Heidsiek, founder of Green Film Shooting, 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 | Angelo Acerbi interviews Marina Marzotto, vicepresident of the Italian Independent Film Producers Meeting, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Marina Marzotto tells all about the 6th edition of the Italian Independent Film Producers Meeting, that will happen in Matera next year, in March 2017. This event is getting bigger every year, symptom of a serious need of the Italian film industry of additional possibilities and solutions to the problems of independent film producers. And Marina has some ideas to develop about this issue.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Michel Reilhac, head of studies of the Biennale College Cinema, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Michel Reilhac tells us the idea behind the Biennale College Cinema, the programme of production of low budget first films, unique in the panorama of international film festivals. We talk with him about the Virtual Reality as it is now and as it will be in the future. Fascinating and scary as it is.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Detlef Rossmann, president of CICAE, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Detlef Rossmann, president of CICAE, tells us about the association and its work towards a wider web of art house cinemas throughout the world, and Europe in particular, using some help from the EU and also from the vitality and creatìvity of the theatres owners.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Vincent Biron and actor Alexandre Lavigne, who talk about the film Prank presented at Venezia 73 [International Critics’ Week]

Director Vincent Biron and his actor Alexandre Lavigne tell us about the making of Prank, a wierdly funny low budget comedy, unconsciously inspired by Todd Solondz and Kevin Smith. The freedom of a 4 people film crew and a low low budget gave the film the freedom it needed to succeed, and Vincent tells us how true this has been.

PRANK. Stefie, an unremarkable teenage loner, is recruited by Martin, Jean-Sé and Lea to record their daily capers with his cellphone. The four pranksters decide to set up a stunt that go beyond anything they’ve done so far… But this time, who will be the victim? A funny and cruel coming-of-age story about love, friendship, peer pressure and loss of innocence.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actor Antonio de la Torre, who talks about his role in the film The Fury of a Patient Man from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Antonio De La Torre plays the leading role in The Fury of a Patient Man from the main competiton of the 73rd Venice Film Festival. In our interview with the director of the movie The Fury of a Patient Man, he described the film as treasuring realism withing a genre concept, like revenge. The film’s intensity works also thanks to De La Torre, who ups the game with his performance.

After a description of his character, offering his insight on his viewpoint of the character he plays, he then says that as an actor, he tries not to look at his roles as characters. In this sense, in his work as an actor, he likes to work more as a chameleon. “Human behaviour is amazing,” he mentions. But did he understand how real the film would have to get, and how dark things would become in the final piece?

De La Torre also talks about his collaboration with the director, offering some amusing experimentation that led to the final work, a further testimony to the collaborative effort that defined The Fury of a Patient Man.

THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN. Madrid, August 2007. Curro is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who just does not seem to fit in anywhere. One morning he goes for a coffee at the bar where Ana and her brother work. That winter his life gets interwoven with the others’ at the bar, who take him in as one of their own. This is especially the case with Ana, who sees this newcomer as an outlet for her distressing life. Having done his time, Curro gets out with the hope of starting his life with Ana over again. But everything has changed in just a very short time.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Raul Arevalo, who talks about his new film The Fury Of A Patient Man from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Raúl Arévalo, famous Spanish actor, makes his directorial feature debut in The Fury of a Patient Man. Arevalo defines the film as a thriller drama, a revenge story. However, he also makes sure to mention that in making it, he sought a realistic approach, which he achieved successfully in a series of ways he mentions in this interview. The screenplay was constructed over the course of nearly a decade, and evolved constantly during this time. Did he always visualize the film in the same way? Given his vast acting background, what does he feel his previous acting works for film have contributed to his shaping his identity as a filmmaking? This, he also reveals to FRED in this interview.

THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAN. Madrid, August 2007. Curro is the only one arrested for the robbery of a jewelry store. Eight years later, his girlfriend Ana and their son are waiting for Curro to get out of prison. Jose is a solitary and reserved man who just does not seem to fit in anywhere. One morning he goes for a coffee at the bar where Ana and her brother work. That winter his life gets interwoven with the others’ at the bar, who take him in as one of their own. This is especially the case with Ana, who sees this newcomer as an outlet for her distressing life. Having done his time, Curro gets out with the hope of starting his life with Ana over again. But everything has changed in just a very short time.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Andrew Dominik, who talks about his film One More Time With Feeling from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING. Originally a performance-based concept, One More Time With Feeling evolved into something much more significant as it delved into the tragic backdrop of the writing and recording of the album. Interwoven throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed performance of the new album are interviews and footage shot by Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s intermittent narration and improvised rumination. The result is stark, fragile and raw and a true testament to an artist trying to find his way through the darkness.

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