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Adriano Valerio – Director – Banat.

Adriano Valerio speaks with Fred after the warm reception of his first feature BANAT, here in the Internation Critics’ Week’s official competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

BANAT: Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania.

Clara has just ended a relationship and is about to lose her job at the Bari harbor. Ivo and Clara meet by chance and seem to immediately understand each other. They spend only one night together before Ivo’s departure, but that is enough to create a bond and wanting to meet again. When Clara visit him in Romania, they fall in love. But is exile their only way to happiness?

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Maxim Dashkin (Director), Anna von Dziembowska (Producer) – The Longest Birthday.

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi meets the director and producer of one of the projects pitched at the European Gap Financing Sessions, which took place at the 72nd Venice Film Festival. The project is entitled THE LONGEST BIRTHDAY.

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Renato De Maria – Director – Italian Gangsters.

Fred Film Radio has the pleasure to talk to Renato De Maria, this yes in venice with his experimental and very entertaining film “Italian Gangsters”, competing in the Orizzonti section.

Plot: An original, spectacular journey through the most sensational exploits of the local underworld. Thirty years of violent stories sanctioned by news and films. A gallery of faces, testimonies and period footage. A many-voiced portrayal following the trail of the main exponents of Italian crime that becomes a tumultuous tale of the social transformations that have run through the history of our country.

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Anna Rose Holmer (Director), Lisa Kierulff (Producer) – The fits.

Anna Rose Holmer and Lisa Kierulff stop by our studio in Venice to talk about their film “The Fits”, one of the films produced under the Biennale College project 2015.

Plot: Toni, a tomboyish boxer, lands a spot on an after- school drill team in the West End community of Cincinnati. Enamored by the power and confidence of the team, Toni eagerly absorbs routines, masters drills, and even pierces her own ears to fit in. As Toni descends deeper into the girls’ world, the lingering nostalgia for her brother’s guidance fades away. We witness the joy of her first friendships and her discovery of dance. Yet, she grapples with her individual identity amid her newly defined social sphere. Shortly after Toni joins the team, the captain faints during practice. By the end of the week, most of the girls on the team suffer from episodes of fainting, swooning, and shaking in a seemingly uncontrollable catharsis. The adults in their community cannot explain the mysterious outbreak. Tension mounts. Soon, these fits transform into a rite of passage as the trauma draws the other girls closer together. Caught between her need for control and her desire for acceptance, Toni must decide how far she will go to embody her new ideals.

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Rajendra Roy – Chief curator of film at MOMA.

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi talks with Rajendra Roy, chief curator of film at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)

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Gabriel Mascaro – Director – Neon Bull.

Fred talks with Gabriel Mascaro, Brazilian filmmaker here in Venice with Neon Bull, in competition Orizzonti Section.

NEON BULL: Iremar works at the “Vaquejadas”, a rodeo in the North East of Brazil where two men on horseback try bring down a bull by grabbing its tail. It’s dusty and back-breaking work, but Iremar is a natural vaqueiro feeding, prepping and taking care of the bulls.

Home is the truck used to transport the animals from show to show which he shares with his coworkers; Galega, an exotic dancer, truck driver and mother to her spirited and cheeky daughter Cacá, and Zé, his rotund compadre in the bull pen.

Together they form a makeshift but close-knit family. But Brazil and the Northeast are changing and the region’s booming clothing industry has stirred new ambitions in Iremar. Swinging in his hammock in the back of the truck, his head is filled with dreams of pattern cutting, sequins and exquisite fabrics as he mentally assembles his latest sexy fashion designs…

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Gyt Scheynius – Director of Stockholm film festival.

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi talks with Gyt Scheynius, director and founder of the Stockholm’s international film festival.

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Giulio Base – King of Periscope.

Fred talks about Periscope, a new kind of immediate filmmaking that allows people to create micro films and share it with the world. Giulio Base, Italian actor and director, was the best person to interviews: he has been indeed proclaimed the king of Periscope.

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Alessandro Pecile and Stefano Siega – Ambassadors of Fred @ School

Alessandro Pecile, and Stefano Siega, young students of the project Fred @ 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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Timo Talmi – Director – Midnight Sun Film Festival

FRED meets with Timo Malmi, director of the Midnight Sun Film festival, at its 30th birthday this year. Here we speak about his experience, Venice, and the ideal of a festival.

MIDNIGHT SUN FILM FESTIVAL: The Midnight Sun Film Festival was founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers, e.g. the Kaurismäki brothers, and the Municipality of Sodankylä. The village of Sodankylä is located in the heart of Finnish Lapland, some 120 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn’t set at all in the summertime. The nature of Lapland and the nightless night provide the Midnight Sun Film Festival a setting no other festival can compete!

The festival programme is an enticing combination of old and new. Timeless masterpieces of veteran filmmakers will be presented side by side with the most engrossing contemporary films. In the master class screenings leading film critics will provide their insight to cinema’s finest classics, and music films are given a new spin in the karaoke screenings. To top it all, the undisputed highlights of the festival are the glorious silent film concerts.

The programme also includes new Finnish productions, films for children and premiere screenings; altogether about 80 feature films presented in over 100 screenings. To crown the cinematic celebration, every since its origin festival director Peter von Bagh has hold morning discussions with the main guests. Who wouldn’t be interested in hearing which films the legendary directors would take with them to a desert island.

Click here to visit the official website of the Midnight Sun Film Festival

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