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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Anna Roller, director of the film The Last Children of Paradise.

 European Film Promotion (EFP) presents ten outstanding young directors from Europe with their latest work at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival every year. This is an interview with director Anna Roller, representing Germany at this year’s edition, and presenting her short film The Last Children of Paradise. In this interview, she discusses some of the themes of her film (including that of mortality), her views on cinema’s ability to show what occurs in the characters’ minds, her experience at this year’s Future Frames in Karlovy Vary and more.

The Last Children of Paradise: Fourteen-year-old Leah lives with her ten-year-old brother Theo and their grandmother. A sad event that unexpectedly affects their lives forces her to take responsibility for the family, but she does so with the ease of a child. A perceptive film about losing a sense of security that had felt like paradise.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Rozálie Kohoutová, co-director of the film Off Sides.

An interview with Rozálie Kohoutová, co-director with Tomas Bojar of Off Sides, a documentary screened at the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Films strand. Off Sides is a documentary about cultural exchange between teenage ice hockey players from Czech Republic and Morocco. Kohoutová calls the film a “documentary comedy,” and explains what she means by that term. We also ask her how she found out about this particular project, her creative partnership with Bojar (who also produced the Off Sides) and their interest in the theme of sport, among other things.

Off Sides: A group of young hockey players from the east Bohemian town of Náchod travel to Morocco where a local team has taken up ice hockey. Documentary filmmakers Rozálie Kohoutová and Tomás Bojar return to the world of sports to capture a vibrant dialogue between different cultures seeking a common language, on and off the ice.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Felipe Ríos, director of the film The Man of the Future.

An interview with director Felipe Ríos, whose film The Man of the Future had its world premiere in the official competition of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. The Chilean filmmaker talks about some of the themes of the film and the importance of time in his movie – past, present and future – as well as some of the ways in which they are represented, particularly in the lead male character being a truck driver and the lead female character being a boxer.

The Man of the Future: Michelsen, an elderly truck driver, sets out on his last trip driving freight to the southern tip of Chilean Patagonia. The long and arduous drive through the magnificent, luxuriant natural landscape, past lakes and extensive glaciers, ultimately becomes a recapitulation of his life when he unexpectedly happens upon his adult daughter, whom he hasn’t seen since her childhood.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Antonio Lukich, director of the film My Thoughts Are Silent.

An interview with Antonio Lukich, director of My Thoughts Are Silent, presented at the East of the West competition of the 2019 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, where it had its world premiere. Here, he talks about his working method, the use of the road movie structure and humour to communicate through his films, and more. Based on one of the elements of My Thoughts Are Silent, we also ask him whether he believes that it is difficult to be an artist nowadays.

My Thoughts Are Silent: Twenty-five-year-old Vadym works as a sound recordist. When a generous job offer comes along which could help him fulfill his dream to move to Canada, he doesn’t think twice and sets out to record the sounds of animals in the Carpathians… In his visually inspired road movie, subtly enhanced by its synthesized score, debuting director Antonio Lukich demonstrates a highly unusual talent for constructing tragicomic situations.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Rosanne Pel, director of the film Light as Feathers.

Rosanne Pel is here in Brussels with her brave and provocative Light as Feathers. She is in company of many other great filmmakers within the Director’s Week section of the festival.

Light as Feathers: Eryk grows up without a father in a village in the Polish countryside. Aged 15, attracted to his young neighbour, he does not know the limit between love and abuse. For her first film, Pel turns to fictional documentary to address the sensitive issue of sexual abuse. A bold film half-way between retribution and forgiveness.

To learn more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Hubert Charuel, director and juror.

Hubert Charuel joins us to talk about his imminent experience as juror here in Brussels – and much more.

Born in the east of France in 1985, Hubert Charuel grew up in an agricultural environment in a family of dairy farmers. After studying and graduating from La Fémis Film School in 2011, he co-writes and directs three shorts, Diagonale du vide, his graduation film, in 2011, K-Nada in 2014 and Fox-terrier in 2017, all three selected and awarded at many festivals. All his projects were co-written with Claude Le Pape. In 2016, he co-writes and directs Petit paysa , his first feature film, distinguished at the Critics’ Week of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. He obtained three Valois at the 2017 Angoulême Francophone Film Festival and three César in 2018. He has just finished his new documentary, Les Vaches n’auront plus de nom, which looks back at the time when his parents sold their farm.

To learn more about the juries and awards, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Bas Devos of the film Hellhole.

We are pleased to meet once again with the talented – and now prolific! – belgian director Bas Devos, here in BRIFF with his film Hellhole. However, he was also in Cannes with Ghost Tropic. Clearly, we have a lot to catch up with.

Hellhole: Hellhole follows three starkly different people in the months after the terrorist attacks in Brussels in March 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter pilot deployed in the Middle East, is forced to confront his loneliness. A young man with Algerian roots is asked by his brother to do him a deceivingly simple favour. An Italian woman, who works for the European Institutions, is slowly losing control under the pressure of her demanding life. The same question that seems to haunt the city, looms over their lives: where do we go from here?

To learn more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Valentina Martelli, CEO of Good Girls Production and video journalist.

Valentina Martelli shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Valentina Martelli has been invited to ITALIAN STORIES DAY to introduce her new project called ITTV Festival created by Good Girls Production (Valentina Martelli, Cristina Scognamillo and Francesca Scorcucchi) and Marco Testa LA, the Armando Testa company that promotes operations related to the work of entertainment in Hollywood. The Festival will be officially launched in September. It will collect all the possible elements that Italy can offer, with the scope to propose it to the American producers, but also to bring them in Italy and use Italian structures. “International TV is the future and we are working on it”.

Italy can offer to America so many theatres and natural sets and Tv have a strong hunger for new contents. Valentina Martelli thinks that in this new scenario, with big international all tv channels like Hulu, Netflix and Amazon, Italy could offer a lot to the US and to the other countries interested in producing new movies and tv series.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Steven Gaydos, executive director for Variety.

Steven Gaydos shares his experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Steven Gaydos directs the planning and production of the nearly 250 “Vplus” editorial feature sections in Variety, Daily Variety and on Variety.com. This includes all of the “Eye on the Oscar” sections and other awards season feature sections, as well as sections throughout the year covering the international entertainment business, music, home entertainment, technology, independent film, ie the entire gamut of entertainment business journalism. Among the numerous features projects Gaydos has launched, he created Variety’s internationally recognized “Ten to Watch” series, which spotlights emerging talents in directing, acting, producing, writing, comedy and cinematography, as well as the “Impact” series which chronicles individual achievements in various sectors of the business, such as the influential “Women’s Impact,” “Youth Impact,” “Music Impact” and “Comedy Impact” reports.In addition to directing the features editorial operations, Gaydos directs Variety’s fast-growing Custom Publishing operations. He also served for five years as international managing director ofVariety, overseeing the global editorial operations from the London office from 2000-2005. Gaydos serves on the board of the British Independent Film Awards and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the European Film Academy. Gaydos is author of the Variety Putnam book, “The Variety Guide to Film Festivals,” “Movie Talk from the Frontlines” (McFarland) and “Cannes: 50 Years of Sun, Sex and Celluloid” (Miramax/Hyperion). Gaydos also appears frequently as an entertainment business authority on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, Sky News, etc.

Steven Gaydos thinks there are universal themes that can unite people with different cultures. At the Italian Stories Day he listened different stories with big relevance to issues that are very powerful in the news nowadays. Steven belives that Italy is more than ready to receive American film makers: Cinecittà is renovated and there is so much going on. “I think that the moment is great for new stories to be told from Italy”.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Tiziana Triana, author of the book La Luna Nera.

Tiziana Triana shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019. Tiziana has been invited in L.A. to talk about her first novel La Luna Nera that will soon become a new Netflix tv serie.

Tiziana Triana, is the Editorial Director and Non Fiction Editor in Chief at Fandango Libri, an independent publishing house based in Rome. She has been working in publishing since 2002. Her first novel, Luna Nera – Le Città Perdute (Black Moon – The Lost Cities), the first volume of a new-adult trilogy, will be published in Italy by Marsilio-Sonzogno in October 2019.

With the help of Italian Film Commission she could realize her dream. Through the tv show based on her novel, the audience will appreciate the beauty of some small town around Rome that not everybody knows. Tiziana is a fan of American cinema: “I think that Americans could teach us a lot, as they say sometimes ‘Italians do it better’, but I would add that Americans do it faster!”. She really loves the high quality of Italian authors, but Americans are more rapid and professional. “Joining forces we could do great things.”

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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