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Carlos Lechuga / Claudia Calviño / Luis Ernesto Doñas – filmmaker / producer / editor – Melaza

Taormina hosts the screening of a series of recent Cuban film productions for the 61st edition of the festival. The director and screenwriter, the producer and the editor of Melaza reveal the long process of the making of this first feature film and shed light on the situation of Cuban filmmaking now that the US embargo is over.

MELAZA: With the closure of its sugar mill, the little town of Molasses is devastated and lifeless. Aldo and Monica are a young married couple who want to find a way to survive together with the woman’s mother and child. By supporting each other, they are going to do everything they can to save their world without losing their faith.

The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and has enjoyed an amazing festival run.

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Ellen Pompeo – actress – Grey’s Anatomy

Ellen Pompeo delivered one of the masterclasses at the Taormina Film Festival the same day when she received one of the Tao Awards. She agreed an interview with FRED inbetween.

The well-known star of Shonda Rhimes’ Grey’s Anatomy faces the new season of the TV show not knowing whether she’ll continue this already 12-season-long love story. “I live in the present”, she said during her masterclass, but she also said that Rhimes “feels inspired” to continue the show, which will see Patrick Dempsey (Derek)’s exit this season.

She also told us about her philanthropy and said why she hasn’t taken part in any fiction movie after Grey’s Anatomy kicked off.

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Roxana Widmer-Iliescu – Senior Programme Officer Special Initiatives Division (SIS) – International Telecommunications Union Development Bureau

The Telecommunication Development Sector fosters international cooperation and solidarity in the delivery of technical assistance and in the creation, development and improvement of telecommunication and ICT equipment and networks in developing countries. Senior Programme Officer Roxana Widmer-Iliescu discusses ITU’s involvement and commitment on Information and Communication Technologies accessibility.

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Robin Ribback – CIO – VerbaVoice

Deaf people encounter barriers in all areas of their lives. VerbaVoice offers services that help removing these barriers for Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened people.  CIO Robin Ribbak explains the company’s new projects and how they managed to integrate disabled people in the process.

Click here to read a full transcript of the interview

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Gion Linder – head of access services – Swiss TXT

FRED’s Antonio Back interviews Gion Linder, head of access services of Swiss TXT, from the 5th International Symposium on Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility, which was held in Rome on the 12th of June 2015.

SWISS TXT provides high-quality marketing and engineering services  and manages the Swiss Broadcasting Company cross-media teletext. Head of Access Services Gion Linder discusses possible measures to improve quality of TV live subtitling.

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Agnieszka Szarkowska / Łukasz Dutka – head of one of the first  respeaking projects in Poland / researcher in the project

Interpreters have a number of skills that might be useful in respeaking. That is the assumption of the research carried out by Agnieszka Szarkowska, Łukasz Dutka. The researchers explain what kind of tests they conducted and share some of their expectations on the results.

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Amela Odobasic – head of public affairs- Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

FRED’s Antonio Back interviews Amela Odobasic, head of public affairs of the Communications Regulatory Agency, at the 5th International Symposium on Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility which took place in Rome, Italy on the 12th of June 2015.

Amela Odobasic, from the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia Erzegovina. discusses her collaboration with ITU to implement ICT accessibility in developing countries, including Bosnia Erzegovina.

The Communication Regulatory Agency, in charge of regulating the communications sector, was originally established in March 2001 by the decision of the High Representative, combining the competencies of the Independent Media Commission (originally responsible for regulating broadcasting) and the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (in charge of telecommunications).

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Rakhshan Bani-Etemad – filmmaker – Tales

Rakhshan Bani-Etemad talks about her outlook on Iranian’s society, her main source of inspiration to write the stories she tells. She also talks about the process of creating a feature film from a series of shorts to bypass government’s restriction on film making in Iran.

TALES: The film is made up of several loosely connected episodes, depicting people from many backgrounds at the margins of Teheran’s society: a taxi driver who tries to help a drug-addicted sex worker, a group of unemployed factory workers confronting government bureaucracy, a social worker running from the husband who disfigured her, and a documentary filmmaker are among those whose lives intersect. The brilliant dialogue strikes the perfect balance between drama and comedy, combining fascinating stories of loss and love.

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Sophia Turkiewicz – director – Once My Mother

Director Sophia Turkiewicz explains how her mother’s story is deeply connected to Poland’s untold history during World War II.

ONCE MY MOTHER: When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.

With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?

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Sepideh Farsi – director and co-screenwriter – Red Rose

Director Sepiedh Farsi engages us in a absorbing conversation about making difficult decisions and difficult films, Iranian politics and society and political activism that requires an high price to be paid.

RED ROSE: Seamlessly shifting between real footage and scripted scenes, the film follows the development of a relationship between a middle-aged man and an inspired young activist during Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.

Red Rose is a drama that explores violence, sexuality and the state of Iran, all intertwined in a captivating narrative.

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RED ROSE is dedicated to the Iranian youth and women.

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فیلم گل سرخ به زنان و جوانان ایران تقدیم شده است

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RED ROSE est dédié aux femmes et à la jeunesse d’Iran.

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