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Kathy Loizou – director – Children’s Film First Conference

On the occasion of the upcoming CHILDREN’S FILM FIRST CONFERENCE taking place in Brussels on the 23rd and 24th of September, Kathy Loizou, director of the Children’s Media Conference, tells FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti about this new Europe-Wide Conference she organized and managed with the CMC and how these two days have been structured and planned.

The Conference will cover many aspects such as the Ways to engage children in film and the Use of digital technology in film literacy. There will be many case studies and practical sessions. Among the programme highlights, a Creative Keynote by Boudewijn koole, director of “kauwboy” who will be talking about the importance of film for children in Europe and engaging children in European Films via film literacy. There will also be a Film Industry Panel on : Access to Children’s film – Current and future distribution models.

The Children’s Media Conference is the UK’s premier gathering for everyone involved in children’s content and distribution. Over 1000 delegates come to the conference every July in Sheffield. In addition to the main summer conference, the CMC organises a number of activities during the year, all for the UK kids’ content industry: UK@Kidscreen delegation, CMC Rights Exchange and Manimation. The CMC is proud to be organising the Children’s Film First Conference.

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Tuva Novotny – actress – A War

Tuva Novotny co-stars in Tobias Lindholm’s latest effort A War as the wife of a soldier fighting in Afghanistan. The actress explained the way she got involved in the project, how the crew shot the film chronologically, the new projects she’s been working on and the possibility of having a try behind the camera

A WAR: Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Pilou Asbaek – actor – A War

Pilou Asbaek speaks in this interview about his involvement once again in a project directed by Tobias Lindholm, someone who he didn’t get along well at the beginning but is like a second marriage to him.

The Danish actor also explained how much he loved to take part in big US productions and the TV show Game of Thrones, although he still praises European creators as the best ones around.

A WAR:Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father.

During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Tobias Lindholm – director – A War

Tobias Lindholm came back to Venice after A Hijacking to present his latest effort, A War, where he works with actor PilouAsbaek once again.

In the interview he speaks about the relationship between the two, explained how he worked with Afghan people and real soldiers to build up a fiction as close to a documentary style as possible and how obsessed he is with what he calls “middle points” leading to “fake endings”.

A WAR: Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father.

During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Alessandro Pecile, Stefano Siega – students – FRED at School

Alessandro Pecile, and Stefano Siega, young students of the project Fred at School, are in Venice to award Andrea Segre and its film Shun Li and the Poet, winner of the first edition of Fred @ School.

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Orson Wong – chief project officer – Macau Films and Television Production and Culture Association

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi meets Orson Wong of the Macau Films and Television Production and Culture Association at the 72nd Venice Film Festival’s Venice Film Market.

As a chief project manager Orson Wong has the pulse of the Macao Film Festival and also of all the other activities that the Association pursues. A new player in the market, and with interesting ideas.

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Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young – actress – Looking for Grace

What an actress can do on screen is a lot of what she is in real life. Radha and Odessa, two actresses of different generations made it to give a shining portrait of their respective femininity and roles in LOOKING FOR GRACE. and listening to their words makes us understand why.

LOOKING FOR GRACE: Grace, 16, runs away from home. Her parents, Dan and Denise, head off on the road to across the Western Australian wheat belt with a retired detective, Norris, to try and get her back. But life unravels faster than they can put it back together. Grace, Dan and Denise learn that life is confusing and arbitrary, but wonderful. Looking For Grace is about how we make sense of the mess of our lives and what it all means. It is a wry drama about lies, secrets, small and large griefs and love.

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Birgit Heidsiek – editor-in-chief – Green Film Shooting

As the Venice FF organised, this year, its very first Green Day, supported by international competition jury president Alfonso Cuarón and his brother Alfredo, Birgit Heidsiek tells us more about sustainability on film sets, about the progress that has been made (Spiderman 2 is a great example of that) and the ways to continue in that direction, cutting costs along the way…

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Sue Brooks – Director – Looking for Grace.

We talked with Sue Brooks about what makes a film interesting and compelling, what does the definition ” female movie” eventually mean, and how a woman can survive in the film industry. Besides talking about her film, of course…

Plot: Grace, 16, runs away from home. Her parents, Dan and Denise, head off on the road to across the Western Australian wheat belt with a retired detective, Norris, to try and get her back. But life unravels faster than they can put it back together. Grace, Dan and Denise learn that life is confusing and arbitrary, but wonderful. Looking For Grace is about how we make sense of the mess of our lives and what it all means. It is a wry drama about lies, secrets, small and large griefs and love.

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Rosa Tran – producer – Anomalisa

After talking to directors Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson for their film ANOMALISA, the stop motion animation film in competition at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, we thought that we still had to know more about this perfect combination of art house cinema and animation techniques. This is why, by talking to producer Rosa Tran we could somehow complete our experience with Anomalisa.

Rosa Tran is an award-winning producer in the highly specialized world of stop-motion and live action animation and in this interview, she explains every phase of how she turned Charlie Kaufman’s creative vision into a stop motion animation film and how she managed to bring life to these puppets and actually let them become as real as possible. Producer Rosa Tran also comments on the difficulties of producing an arthouse film and the decision of also using the Kickstarter platform to complete the budget for the film.

ANOMALISA: Directed by Kaufman along with Duke Johnson, “Anomalisa” tells the story of a man who struggles with his inability to connect with other people. “Anomalisa’s” journey to the screen began in 2012, when the filmmakers turned to Kickstarter to fund their ambitious stop-motion animated picture.

The fundraising campaign raised nearly double their initial financial goals, setting a new Kickstarter record for film fundraising. Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, and Tom Noonan voice the film. Tran built a name for herself working on seminal Adult Swim shows like “Robot Chicken,” “Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole,” “Moral Orel,” “Titan Maximum,” and “MAD.” She credits her love of animation and miniatures with helping foster her imaginative approach to production and ability to push the boundaries and technological barriers of the industry. Tran began working in animation when she joined the puppet department in 2007 on Adult Swim’s hit series, “Robot Chicken.” Before animation, she worked on various live action projects for MTV, Spike, WE, and Comedy Central. Her work in both has given her a unique perspective that enhances her expertise in producing creative content.

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