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Mette Damgaard-Sorensen – artistic director – New Danish Screen

An interesting talk with one of the panelists of the European Film Forum at the Venice Film Market about the reason and life of short films, the need of an identified audience for feature films and the importance of marketing in the era of online distribution.

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Shira MacLeod – Director Of Regent Street Cinema

A new cinema and a lively new reality has landed in London. Have a listen!

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Juan Antonio Bayona – Director

The director of The Impossible and Penny Dreadful talks about being a European director who works with Hollywood stars.

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Joana Vicente – Independent Filmmaker Project – New York Media Center.

An interesting talk about films and distribution, how to have your film seen, and on its essential qualities. Plus, you can discover what the New York Media Center is and how its formula is something to check out and duplicate.

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Grant Gee – Director – Innocence of Memories-Orhan Pamuk’s Museum and Istanbul

Grant Gee brings us through the Museum Of Innocence in Istanbul, using a mixture of fiction and documentary, with the precise intent to fascinate us , and it works.

Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in 1970’s Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through love stories, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. “Like many people, when I first visited Istanbul, I read Orhan Pamuk. From the very start, my view of the city was through the prism of his imagination. And I knew that Orhan had imagined a place called ‘The Museum of Innocence’ and in 2008 had published a big novel of that name. What I didn’t know was that, two months after my first visit to Istanbul in 2012, Orhan would open the doors to the real Museum of Innocence. A real, 5-storey museum of real objects – the debris and treasure of a tragic love affair from 30 years ago. A museum which immediately became established as part of Istanbul’s real cultural itinerary: the Bosphorus Cruise, Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar, Museum of Innocence.” [Grant Gee]

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Kuba Czekaj (Director) and Magdalena Kaminska (Producer) – Baby Bump

Fred speaks freely with Kuba Czekaj, Magdalena Kaminska, respectively director and producer of the film Baby Bump, here in Venice with Biennale College.

Baby Bump: 11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to extremes… at home and at school. Mickey has to find the strength within him to put a stop to what’s begun. Where will his encounter with his own maturing body take him? Growing up… not for kids.

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Ricky Mifune – Poducer – Mifune: The last Samurai.

Ricky Mifune, grandson of the heroic actor Toshiro Mifune, talks about the new documentary Mifune: the last Samurai.

Plot: It tells the story of Toshiro Mifune, legendary Japanese actor for many Akira Kurosawa films, who is the first Asian international star even before Bruce Lee and who has won the Best Actor Award at Venice International Film Festival for Akahige (Red Beard) exactly 50 years ago. The documentary also explores the world of the golden era of Japanese cinema and its history, along with the war that affected Mifune’s life and career.

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Joao Salaviza – Director – Montanha.

Joao Salaviza, director of Montanha, speaks about his debut feature Montanha, officially competing in the International Critics’ Week.

MONTANHA: A hot summer in Lisbon. David, 14, awaits the imminent death of his grandfather but refuses to visit him, fearing this terrible loss.

His mother, Mónica, spends her nights at the hospital. The void already left by his grandfather forces David to become the man of the house. He doesn’t feel ready to assume this new role, but without realizing it: the more David tries to avoid adulthood, the more he gets closer to it…

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Today the first edition of FRED at School has come to an end at the Villa degli Autori with the FRED at School Award conferred to “Shun Li and the Poet” (“Io sono lì”) by Andrea Segre, film chosen by young students from 8 European countries which supported the project that started last December.

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Pengfei – Director – Underground Fragrance

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews director Pengfei, whose feature directorial debut UNDERGROUND FRAGRANCE was featured in the programme of the Venice Days section of the 72nd Vanice Film Festival. The director talks to us about the cultural context that inspired the film, and his knowledge of the drifting community, which is one of its driving concepts. He also tells us about how it was to work with non actors and comments on the attention he pays to architecture as well as the specific and particular visual style he employs.

Plot: Yong Le, a young migrant worker from the south, salvages furniture to re-sell. He lives in a room in Beijing’s Underground City, a labyrinthian former bomb shelter that serves as cheap housing for people looking for opportunity in the big city. But after a bad work accident leaves him temporarily blind, he has to use a rope to find his way around the dimly lit basement halls, until the night meets a girl at the other end of his rope. Xiao Yun, is a migrant too. She is desperately trying to find new employment so that she can leave her job pole dancing at nights. Her meeting with Yong Le and their burgeoning relationship encourages her to hunt for a more respectable job. At ground level, old Lao Jin has been struggling for years to get a decent compensation deal from the authorities who want to demolish his house. His health is declining and his savings are evaporating. And he’s counting on Yong Le to sell his furniture at a good price. Three lives propelled by the “Chinese Dream” intermingle in the vast melting pot of the Beijing metropolis.

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