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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Christof Wehmeier, Festival Co-Curator of the Scandinavian Film Festival.

Christof Wehmeier is the Festival Manager at the Icelandic Film Centre in Reykjavik and co-curator of the Scandinavian Film Festival presented by Palace in Australia. Christof talks about Nordic cinema, similarities and differences that characterise productions coming from the Nordic countries, the authentic stories they tell and the genuine characters they portray, which are behind the success of the Nordic cinema.

The Scandinavian Film Festival showcases the best contemporary Nordic cinema from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, selected from international film festival to present a curated selection for the Australian audience. The festival runs nationally in Australia in major cities until the end of July.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Mark Cousins, director of the film The Story Of Film: A New Generation.

Mark Cousin focuses on the last 10 years of planetary filmmaking to give us a new glimpse on the cinema language and its evolution. In this interview he explains why these last ten years are important, why Indian cinema is misread and wrongly underestimated and why the map of cinema needs to be redesigned.

A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation , Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world cinema from 2010 to 2021, using a surprising range of works including Joker, Frozen and Cemetery of Splendour as launchpads to explore recurring themes and emerging motifs, from the evolution of film language, to technology’s role in moviemaking today, to shifting identities in 21st century world cinema.

Touching on everything from Parasite and The Farewell to Black Panther and Lovers Rock , Cousins seeks out films, filmmakers and communities under represented in traditional film histories, with a particular emphasis on Asian and Middle Eastern works, as well as boundary pushing documentaries and films that see gender in new ways. And as the recent pandemic recedes, Cousins ponders what comes next in the streaming age: how have we changed as cinephiles, and how moviegoing will continue to transform in the digital century, to our collective joy and wonder.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Abdullah Mohammad Saad, director of the film Rehana.

Saad does not know if his film Rehana can be described as a feminist film, but he knew what he wanted the film to convey and look like. he tells us how he worked writing it, who inspired him and how the look of a film such his is important to tell its story.

Rehana: Rehana, an assistant professor at a medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between work and family, as she has to play all the complex roles of a teacher, doctor, sister, daughter, and mother. One evening, she witnesses a student storming out of a professor’s office, crying.Deeply impacted by this event, Rehana’s life starts to spiral out of control. She gradually descends into obsession, seeking retribution, just as she receives a complaint from the school about her six-year-old daughter’s unusual behaviour… Rehana refuses to accept the madness of the patriarchal society she lives in and will put every thing at stake, in order to find justice for her student and her daughter.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Daniel Sivan, director of the film Dirty Tricks.

A conversation with Daniel Sivan, director of Dirty Tricks, a new documentary that premiered at this year’s Docaviv. The documentary explores a recent huge scandal in the world of competitive bridge. Here, Sivan talks about how he came across his story, as well as what it is that fascinated him about the world of competitive bridge, once it opened its doors to him, and why working on this project was so refreshing for him on a personal and artistic level.

Dirty Tricks: Bridge is the most popular card game in history, enjoyed by millions of senior citizens all around the world. It is also a world of cutthroat competition, with elite players sponsored by billionaires who go toe-to-toe in ruthless high stakes tournaments. The world’s best player is Lotan Fisher, who by the age of 26 became “The Michael Jordan of Bridge”. He was unstoppable, until his archnemesis, Boye Brogeland accused him of cheating, throughout his whole career. Lotan vehemently denies the accusation, which quickly spirals in a massive controversy threatening to bring down the entire competitive Bridge world. With millions of dollars and their lucrative careers at stake, the truth behind one of the world’s most bizarre blood feuds will be revealed in a true-crime comedy documentary.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Peter Schernhuber, co-artistic director of the Diagonale.

The Diagonale, the annual showcase of Austrian cinema, returned in Graz this year and we talked about it with its co-artistic director Peter Schernhuber. In this interview, we bit about this year’s program, some of its main winners and dedicated strands, including one spotlighting the works of Jessica Hausner. We also discuss some of the defining traits of Austrian cinema at large and what makes Graz such a great place for a festival like the Diagonale.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sara Mesfer, director of the film The Girls Who Burned the Night.

Director Sara Mesfer talks about The Girls Who Burned the Night, which has been presented at various film festivals and is also screening at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. She talks about its store, the challenge of casting the role and the importance of the specific location in which it is set. The conversation also touches on the current cinematic movement of Saudi Arabia and her personal motivations in making movies.

The Girls Who Burned the Night : traces two sisters, Salsabeel and Wassan on an engagement night, after one of them was denied to go to the nearby grocery store. The narrative follows the post-rejection agony of the two sisters, as they are pushed to discover themselves and each other in order to survive some unexpected and harsh realities.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Rocío Bernabé Caro, Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany).

Respeakers, velotypists, live captioners and real-time subtitlers, speech-to-text reporters and interpreters, and all related professionals are invited to this one-day event on real-time intralingual subtitling. Live Text Access (LTA) is an EU funded project that tackles the current need of an open-source certified training program with harmonised competence-based modules and quantified credits for higher educational (ECTS) and vocational (ECVETS) training.At this last event, LTA partners will report about the final stage of the project and give an overview about the achievements so far. They will present the elaborated materials, and outline the importance of the quality assessment. The LTA certificate will be explained and an overview of the developments in the field will be provided. Furthermore, a live speech-to-text competition will be part of the event. The program also includes speeches that will approach the view of the end-users of speech-to-text-services. And during the networking sessions, participants will have the opportunity to exchange their views and ideas on current developments. A live speech-to-text competition will take place too!

To discover more about the project, clik here.

Rocío Bernabé Caro:  MA in Translation (UGR) and MA in Accessible Technologies (UNIR), deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany) and tenured lecturer at the SDI University of Applied Languages. She has worked as a specialized staff translator for almost twenty years and has ten years of teaching experience. As former Head of Quality Management and of the Lecturer Training Program at SDI, she implemented a Learner Centred Quality Management System (LQW) as well as a training program for lecturers. Furthermore, she was various years in charge of the didactic support and lecturer’s training of the Moodle-E-Learning-Platform of the SDI München. Her interest on accessibility and technology motivated her to pursue a MA degree in Accessible Technologies, where she dedicated her thesis to studying the User Centred Design approach of Easy-to-Read digital projects. An article on this topic will be published in December in La Revista Española de Discapacidad. Currently, her work is focused on accessibility in the field of translation. She is also a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jonathan Rosen, visual artist and creative director.

A chat with New York City-based visual artist and creative director Jonathan Rosen about his NFT debut with back-to-back exhibitions in London and New York City. Rosen talks about how with this project, he sought to bring the digital space, represented by NFTs, into our physical world. He also talks about exploring the theme of fame and the interactive nature of his artworks. In addition, to commemorate pride, Rosen has collaborated with Nasdaq’s Purpose Initiative and Broadway Cares for a charity auction, which you can find out more about here. 

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Carolina Martins, assistant producer of the 4th International Conference  4th on Stereo & Immersive Media.

A conversation with Carolina Martins, S&I Media Assistant Producer, about the 4th International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media in Lisbon, Portugal, taking place on June 11-12 and June 18-19 online this year. The conference aims to bring together the research fields of photography, sound and cinema, considering their historical and current relationships with expanded and immersive environments. In this interview, Martins talks about this year’s program, the biggest in the conference’s history, and some of its keynote speakers.

To discover more about the 4th International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media, click here.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Bettina Kinski, Festival Curator of German Film Festival in Sydney.

The Festival curator Bettina Kinski explores the line-up of this year’s festival, with 27 Australian premieres, box office hits and award-winning dramas straight from this year’s Berlinale. A celebration of German culture and filmmaking, it includes productions from neighbouring Austria, showcasing the creativity and diversity of the German language cinema.

From thrillers and documentaries, to feel-good comedies, this year’s films will amuse, inspire and entertain.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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