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PODCAST | Talent Sarajevo Katerina Lambrinova interviews producer Carla Fotea, producer of Private Party, from Pack & Pitch at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Katerina Lambrinova, press participant of the Talents Sarajevo 2016 program, interviews Romanian producer Carla Fotea. In this interview, Fotea introduces her project Private Party, which was selected for the Pack & Pitch project of Talents Sarajevo at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Kenan Musić, general director of Youth Film Festival Sarajevo, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Youth Film Festival Sarajevo is a festival primarily aimed at young people. Its aim is to shine a light on topics and problems not only of the young people of Bosnia, but also of young people around the world. It also offers workshops in film education and filmmaking for young people, and each year focuses on a specific topic.

We met its director Kenan Musić, who introduced it on FRED, during the course of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which closely precedes it. Besides introducing this year’s edition, he talks to us about the difficulties the Youth Film Festival encountered in its formative years, which it is overcoming more and more also thanks to a number of grants from cultural institutions, that has allowed it to expand its educational program.

One of the venerable things about the festival is that the screenings are free. Giving the gift of cinema to young people is among the most priceless and inspiring things that can be done nowadays from a cultural and educa tional standpoint.

The 2016 edition of Youth Film Festival Sarajevo takes place from the 25th to the 28th of August.

Through it’s seven year tradition, the festival has gathered young people from all around Europe. From last year festival content was thorougly redesigned and reorganized according to new needs of education of young people. The goal of Youth Film Festival is to educate, affirm, and promote young film creators, amateurs, professionals and connoisseurs in ages from 15 to 25 years. We consider that investing in this kind of a project would bring a lot to the local community and sustainability of film arts in the city of Sarajevo, country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and even further. Next to the competition and educational program YFF also gives attractive programs for fans of the 7th art.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Christine Tröstrum, project manager of the Berlinale Talents, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Every year, Berlinale Talents brings selected talents from various sectors of the film industry to the Berlin International Film Festival, where they get the opportunity to attend training programs and panels, and connect with industry professionals and each other.

Each year, Berlinale Talents collaborates to take the concept of its talent campus in various other parts of the world. Sarajevo is one such example; this year Talents Sarajevo celebrates its 10th edition. We are joined by the project manager of the Berlinale Talents, Christine Tröstrum, who gives us an overview of what it offers to young people, the criteria required in order to be considered for selection, and reminds our listeners who might be interested in applying that the deadline, September 1, is fast approaching.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Sam Douek, one of the curators of the Cine Latino.

Sam Douek, one of the curators of Cine Latino, talks about this new exciting festival of cinema from a diverse range of Latin American countries, from Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala and Puerto Rico.

Cine Latino is a new festival of Latin American cinema in Australia dedicated to exploring the diverse and exciting Latin American cinema of now.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews cinematographer Igor Martinovic, one of the mentor of the 2016 Talents Sarajevo at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Celebrated cinematographer of fiction and documentary films, Igor Martinovic, is the 2016 mentor for the group of cinematographers participating in this year’s Talents Sarajevo at the Sarajevo Film Festival. The theme of the talents program, this year, is “In and Out of Light.”

Martinovic tells us that they have expanded on it, as the process so far (at the time of interview shows). We talk about his work with the talents, and he even tells us a little bit about this year’s group and how they are “eager to try things” and he is “trying to challenge them, creating problems that I don’t even have the answers to.” Besides this, we talk about cinematography in general, the obligatory question of digital and analog as well as a very engaging conversation and discussion about the lack of “visual literacy” in the modern world.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Marketa Sanctrochova, head of the Czech Film Center, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Czech Republic, along with Slovakia, is one of the two partner countries of CineLink at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival. We meet the head of the Czech Film Center, Marketa Santrochova, at a special press and industry lunch.

We are hence introduced to the activities of the Czech Film Center and the activities that she is involved in at CineLink, which mainly revolve around establishing a good rapport with the Balkan regions, upon which the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival focuses.

The Czech Film Center (CFC) was established to represent, market and promote Czech cinema and film industry and to increase the awareness of Czech film worldwide. CFC is the national partner of important international film festivals and co-production platforms, taking active part in selection and presentation of Czech films and projects. It provides tailor-made consulting, initiates and co-organizes numerous pitching forums and workshops, prepares specialized publications, and networks on international level.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ognjen Svilicic, pitching his TV drama Takeover at CineLink Drama from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

This year CineLink, for the very first time, is dedicating a section to drama series. Ognjen Svilicic is one of the participants. Director and screenwriter of his serial Takeover, which he is currently searching for a producer for, is one of the people taking part in it. Takeover” will tell the story of an “immoral” man taking over a pharmaceutical company.

Despite it coming from Croatia, the series will seek a broad international audience also through the fact that it will be in the English language. In addition to Takeover, we also talk about why Svilicic decided to plan a transition from cinema to TV, and what he hopes to achieve at the Sarajevo Film Festival this year.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Alexandra Strelkova, head of film promotion of the Slovak Film Institute, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Slovakia is one of the partner countries of this year’s CineLink, the co-production market of the Sarajevo Film Festival. We meet the head of film promotion of the Slovak Film Institute, Alexandra Strelkova. We talk about her activities in Sarajevo, but also about the institute’s activities at large. Its archive, storing the film heritage of Slovakia and, among them, gems from the Czechoslovak New Wave, is comprehensive.

Looking after the promotion of such rich heritage, we mention some of the films recently re-released and the ways in which the films are exhibited; one such way is through their own four screen cinema, featuring some very creative and fascinating programming. Besides this, we discuss some of the newer titles the Institute is involved with, such as The Teacher and Eva Nova.

The Slovak Film Institute (SFI) was established on April 1, 1963 in Bratislava . The film archive, then collected in the Film Distribution Center founded by Ivan Rumanovský in 1958, was moved to this new institution. After reopening the Czechoslovak Film Institute in Prague , the Slovak Film Institute was established as its branch office and shortly after that, at the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives ( FIAF ) the status of common archive of CFI and SFI was approved. The SFI became an independent establishment in 1991 and a member of FIAF in 2001 . Ján Komiňár was its first director and he stayed in the office for the longest period so far and was followed by over 20 successors. For the last five years Peter Dubecký has been the General Manager of SFI. In 1968 the institution moved from its very first seat at the Film Club on Rybné Square in Bratislava to Grösslingová Street , where its offices have been located until today. Since then, in addition to the domestic production archiving, SFI preserves also selected films of foreign origin. Since 1969 on, the Institute has initiated a wide range of activities and historical research in the field of Slovak cinematography.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Adina Pintilie, presenting her film Touch Me Not in the Work in Progress section of CineLink at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Filmmaker Adina Pintilie is presenting her film in the work in progress section, a research on intimacy, a lengthy project that started way back in 2010. Six years later, the film is almost ready for release. We talk about her inspiration behind developing a project that examines the theme of intimacy. We also talk about her activities in Sarajevo, mainly revolving around CineLink’s Work in Progress section, and she reveals that she hoped Touch Me Not will have a lengthy festival life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma, mentors of Pack & Pitch at Talents Sarajevo, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma return to Sarajevo as mentors and experts of the Pack & Pitch section of the Talents Sarajevo campus, which takes place during the Sarajevo Film Festival every year. This year, the participants in Pack & Pitch are unusually all female, a fortuitous choice as Brunnenmeyer points out.

Besides talking about how Pack & Pitch operates and what changes have defined it over the course of its existence, we discuss the projects themselves and whether or not, as a group, all have a defining trait beyond their originality.

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