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Ilaria Brancatelli – expert on film and media in the classroom as accelerated language learning experience

Dr Ilaria Brancatelli gained a BA/MA Social and Political/Historical Sciences at the University of Turin. She is specialized in the engagement in Social Science research with focus on Ethnography, Ethnographic research emanating mainly from psychological, sociological and anthropological perspectives and Linguistics and cultural studies.

Film and media as a possible tool for the implementation of accelerated learning in language teaching practice, with particular focus on learning styles and inclusive learning. Accelerated learning, as a concept, is synonymous with a more efficient and enjoyable learning experience. The matching of the way learners are taught to the way they prefer to learn is the essence of the driving force that seeks to identify a personalised learning style. Dr Brancatelli’s research explores the possibility that the use of film and media offers a range of valuable tools to facilitating and enhancing such more natural and satisfying learning outcomes.

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Jennifer Lertola, Noa Talaván – collaborators – ClipFlair

Dr Jennifer Lertola is an E-tutor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her main research interests include teaching Italian as a foreign language, second language acquisition, audiovisual translation and online education. She has been a member of EU-funded Clipfair project.

Dr Noa Talaván holds a senior lecturer position in the Foreign Languages Dept. of the Universidad Nacional de Education a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Her main fields of research are audiovisual translation, mobile learning and foreign language education. She is currently taking part in two different projects: the above mentioned Clipflair and “SO CALLED ME” on Mobile Learning Applications in Language Learning (as part of a group called ATLAS).

Dr Lertola and Talaván presented the results of their e-learning project through Clipflair, an online platform meant to enable foreign language learning through interactive revoicing and captioting of clips.

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Carmen Herrero – Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish – Manchester Metropolitan University

Dr Carmen Herrero is the Principal Lecturer and Section Leader of Spanish at Manchester metropolitan University. She teaches Hispanic cinema and culture. Dr Her and corero is a core member of the FLAME research Centre (Film, Languages and Media in Education) and also a co-director and co-founder of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association.

FLAME (Film, Languages and Media in Education) is a new and pioneering Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University dedicated to the development and dissemination of innovative research and current findings in the areas of pedagogy, languages, media and film. FLAME is a sort of follow up to the work of FILTA (Film in Languages Teaching Association), a worlwide association founded by the core member of FLAME, which has now over 2.500 members from 90 different countries and continues to grow.

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Brian Tomlinson – founder and president – MATSDA (International Materials Development Association)

Dr Brian Tomlinson is one of the world’s leading experts in teacher training and material development and design, author of several publications about language teaching, and Founder and President of MATSDA, the International Materials Devolopment Association.

In this interview he offers a precious insight in Dr Tomlinson extraordinary approach to teaching, focused on his experience in developing students skills and awareness.

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Matteo Broggini – expert – DCF

Dr Matteo Broggini works as an Italian teacher at Centro di lingua e cultura italiana per stranieri in Milan, where he is also director of studies and teacher trainer. He talks to us about DCF (in Italian, acronym of Didattizzazione di un film completo), an experimental project that enables teachers to turn full-length movies into complete language courses by treating them as tv series.

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Tomm Moore – director – Song of the Sea

FRED’s Gozalo Suarez interviewed Tomm Moore, the director of Song of the Sea, which was screened at the 8th edition of Fest Anca International Animation Festival in Zilina, Slovakia.

Tomm Moore went to the 8th edition of the animated film festival of Zilina – Fest Anca – to preside the jury of its international competition, hold a conference on how Cartoon Saloon and its partners made his new Oscar-nominee title Song of the Sea and present the two feature films he has directed to date.

SONG OF THE SEA: Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother’s home to journey to the sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world.

After The Secret of Kells, Tomm Moore directed another traditionally animated gem to vie for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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Maros Brojo – artistic director – Fest Anca International Animation Festival

Fest Anca’s artistic director Maros Brojo explained to FRED’s Gonzalo Suárez what the evolution of the festival has been over the past years, overviews its 2015 edition and shares his intentions for the following year.

FEST ANCA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL: Fest Anca is an animation festival held in Zilina, the third largest city in Slovakia. As usual, its 8th edition has had the traditional train station and the new synagogue as its two main venues.

Among many other initiatives, the festival includes an international and a national short film competition and this year has featured two masterclasses and retrospectives from famous animation film-makers Tomm Moore and Priit Parn.

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Film: Io Sono Li (2011)

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Patricia Arquette – actress – Boyhood

The Academy Award-winning actress held a masterclass in the morning, talked to the accredited journalists in the afternoon and received a prize in the evening on the stage of Taormina’s legendary Teatro Antico.

After comments by female colleagues such as Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana, Ava Duvernay and Carey Mulligan, Boyhood‘s actress shared her views on the hot battle for gender equality not only in Hollywood but also in America and also explained her no-rule, ad hoc approach to different roles and scenes.

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Richard Gere – actor – Oppenheimer Strategies

The popular American actor Richard Gere held a masterclass at the Taormina Film Festival before chatting to the press and being presented an award by Tiziana Rocca.

After 40 years in the business, Richard Gere has starred in four films over the past year. Thus his career seems to be all but over. During our chat, he talked about his experience as an invisible man in New York, the difference between rich and poor in America and the world and his latest works – Franny and Oppenheimer Strategies.

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