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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker and film educator Gyula Gazdag, Talents Sarajevo mentor, at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Filmmaker, scriptwriter and film educator Gyula Gazdag is this year’s mentor of the Film Stage Studio program of this year’s edition of Talents Sarajevo. The interdisciplinary hands-on training program aimed at directors and scriptwriters was first introduced at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival and returns this year in a changed format. Gazdag himself, as the new mentor of the program, is one of them. We discuss the fascinating and exciting intensive program with him, what will be taking place during it and its aims and objectives.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dana Linssen, film critic and one of the mentors of Talents Sarajevo, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Film critic Dana Linssen is one of the mentors of the film critics participating in this year’s Talents Sarajevo edition, which takes place during the course of the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival. Aside from her activities as mentor with the talents, we take this opportunity to take a closer look at the world of film criticism, for one of the first times on our radio; especially the way in which it has evolved over the course of the last few years and the way in which it is in today’s modern film industry.

Dana particularly takes the time to talk about what threatens the “independence” of a film critic today. In addition, we talk The Slow Criticism Project, an intriguing project that she founded.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yoana Pavlova, film critic and Talent Sarajevo mentor, from the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival

Yoana Pavlova, among other things, is the founder of Festivalists and one of this year’s mentors to the film critics of Talents Sarajevo. After a detailed descriptions of her activities with the talents of this year’s talents at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival, we talk about other things, including the ways in which film criticism has evolved over the years and what impact social media has on film criticism as well as film journalism.

Yoana will also be hosting an event during the course of “VR Days” at the festival, focusing on VR; therefore we talk about this current “hot” topic in the world of media and whether or not she sees it as a completely new media or an evolution of the cinematic art itself.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amra Baksic Camo, head of CineLink at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

As every year, we catch up with the head of CineLink, the co-production market of the Sarajevo Film Festival, Amra Baksic Camo. After an overview of the market, which also illustrates how it has successfully evolved over the years, we talk about two new things it will feature in its 2016 edition; a section dedicated to TV dramas from the Southwestern European region and one called True Stories market.

This interview, and days after a CineLink alumni has been awarded the highest prize at the Locarno Film Festival, Godless, further revealing the successes of CineLink‘s ventures.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jovan Marjanović, head of Industry at the 22nd Sarajevo Film Festival.

The Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section is certainly one of the best in Europe. Its evolution has been ongoing and relentless and this year too offers an exciting program that especially tends to the future of the industry, and beyond – as the space assigned to the budding VR industry shows.

What better way to illustrate the admirable work that takes place in Sarajevo annually than by talking with the head of the industry himself, Jovan Marjanovic; an annual guest on FRED Film Radio. Jovan Marjanović takes some time to chat with FRED about this year’s program, despite his busy schedule.

Going over some of the events, panels and markets, we get a feeling of the atmosphere in Sarajevo, which as he points out, will welcome an estimated number of about 1000 film professionals.

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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Nanni Moretti, director of My Mother from the 2015 New York Film Festival

At the US premier of My Mother (Mia Madre), we meet the director Nanni Moretti and talk about his new movie which will open in US theaters on August 26th, 2015. Moretti has a unique uncensored voice in Italian moviemaking. His last movie will be a perfect fit for US movie audiences, with his distinctive humor and sensibility. My Mother is going to be a gem among this summer’s releases.

Many thanks to Lilia Pino Blouin for the translation.

MY MOTHER: Margherita (Margherita Buy) is a middle-aged filmmaker who has to contend with an international co-production starring a mercurial American actor (John Turturro) and with the realization that her beloved mother (Giulia Lazzarini) is mortally ill. Underrated as an actor, director Nanni Moretti offers a fascinating portrayal as Margherita’s brother, a quietly abrasive, intelligent man with a wonderfully tamped-down generosity and warmth. The construction of the film is as simple as it is beautiful: the chaos of the movie within the movie merges with the fear of disorder and feelings of pain and loss brought about by impending death. Mia Madre is a sharp and continually surprising work about the fragility of existence that is by turns moving, hilarious, and subtly disquieting. An Alchemy release.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Rachael Belle Myers, director, writer and producer of First World Problems from the 2nd Reel Time International Online Film Festival.

Rachael Belle Myers’ unique zeal for expression found a brilliant and timely outlet through poetry, screenwriting and more recently as a filmmaker. She is emerging as a promising Australian writer and filmmaker who depicts the human experience with sharp and poignant realism.

In 2014, Rachael started Jaded Belle Productions and wrote, directed and produced her first short film titled Choice. In 2016, Rachael released First World Problems, a short film she wrote, directed and produced, which deals with a number of social issues affecting our society. In this interview, Rachael Belle talks about her outlook on life and her experience as a writer and a filmmaker.

FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: Mike and Paul are two mates who meet each day in the park for a coffee and a break from the daily grind. As they share and discuss the problems they face in their day to day lives, they miss out on what’s happening in the world surrounding them. Are they both too self-absorbed to see the world for what it really is? Or will they find a way to open their eyes and appreciate the lives they have?

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Jakob Oftebro, actor of the film Gold Coast and Heaven on Earth from the 2016 Scandinavian Film Festival.

Jakob Oftebro talks about the films presented at the Scandinavian Film Festival and about his diverse career in cinema and television. The films presented were Gold Coast and Heaven on Earth. Gold Coast is inspired by letters from 1836 found in the Royal Library of Copenhagen depicting the horrific exploitative practices in Danish Guinea. In Heaven on Earth, director Kay Pollak rekindles the magic of his original and successful film As it is in Heaven in an independent sequel.

GOLD COAST: Wulff is a young idealist who is sent to Danish Guinea to establish a coffee plantation. His anti-colonial idealism is soon overshadowed by the more pressing moral challenge to confront the horrific exploitative practices of the corrupt Danes that rule the colony.

HEAVEN ON EARTH: Reuniting key cast members from As it is in Heaven, Heaven on Earth takes up where the last story left off: after Daniel’s death, Lena is alone and pregnant. Fans of As It is in Heaven will not be disappointed by the heartfelt continuation of the characters and storyline commenced in the original, handled with the kind of delicate combination of humour, mischievousness and utter joviality unique to this filmmaker.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews  Alejandra Márquez Abella, director of Semana Santa from the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The feature directorial debut by Alejandra Márquez Abella, Semana Santa, was screened at the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. In this film, Abella tells the story of a seemingly innocent family vacation. As the film progresses, we realize that it becomes an exploration of many different versions of a family, that transcends its most traditional and Catholic definition. In the interview, we ask the director about this and also about her leanings towards realism, which she herself discovered only upon making the film. This inspires another question, whether or not it is true what Cronenberg said that very often a filmmaker doesn’t know what film he or she is making until he or she is making it (or has made it).

SEMANA SANTA: A family arrives at a seaside resort and, at first glance, they don’t seem any different from all the other cheerful holidaymakers. The relationships between the inquisitive son, his widowed mother and her new boyfriend are extremely fragile, however, as they always are in such cases. The promise of endless lazy days soon becomes a test of mutual solidarity.

Trailer SEMANA SANTA from alejandra márquez abella on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Damjan Kozole, director of Nightlife from the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

The story of Nightlife, which had its world premiere at the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, is inspired by the horrific accounts of a piece of news that was popular nationwide in Slovenia, involving a man found a bloody mess and nearly lifeless on the side of the street, with a huge dildo beside him. Implications of bestiality soon followed. But the film is not about that, at least not necessarily and anyways not in a judgemental way. It is more of a social study.

Director Damjan Kozole, whom we interviewed, talks about this and also about his wish to allow the viewers to come up with their own conclusions. In addition, we also discuss the certain responsibilities required in a film which, despite being inspired rather than based on the aforementioned true story, is still familiar. He replies that he also views this film as a way of rehabilitating the memory of the “poor doctor,” as he defines him, and mentions a source of inspiration in the form of the irresponsible behaviour of the media, particularly in these modern times of social media prominence. These are only a few of the topics of the interview on Nightlife and beyond.

NIGHTLIFE: The lives of a wealthy married couple radically change in an instant. While the husband is in critical condition after an accident that occurred under strange circumstances, the wife tries to understand the situation and to salvage what she can… In this constricted, small-scale drama by a renowned Slovenian filmmaker, Pia Zemljic excels in the role of the resourceful wife.

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