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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Antoneta Kastrati, directors of the film Zana.

A conversation with Antoneta Kastrati, director of Zana, selected for the European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. Zana explores motherhood, the power of dreams and the horrors of war. It is also based on Kastrati’s own experiences as a war survivor – as the film takes place in Kosovo and revisits wartime trauma – and her work and research on the time. In this interview, we also talk about how her background in documentary filmmaking and journalism informs her approach in filmmaking, as well as the themes of the film, including tradition and superstition and how it shapes the role of women within society in Kosovo.

Zana: Mysticism and modernity clash in this tense family drama about a Kosovar Albanian woman’s struggles to overcome wartime trauma and conceive a child.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, directors of the film My Little Sister.

A conversation with Véronique Reymond and Stéphanie Chuat, whose film My Little Sister was selected for this year’s European Film Promotion’s EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film program, in collaboration with the Sydney Film Festival. The film revolves around twins — Lisa, a brilliant playwright who has given up writing and her actor brother, who is terminally ill. In this interview, Reymond and Chuat talk about various elements in the film, including that of the theatre, and their own experiences that helped shaped the movie. They also talk about their longstanding collaboration and how their own friendship is reflected in My Little Sister.

This interview was recorded for the Big FRED Tuesday.

My Little Sister: Two of Germany’s finest actors, Nina Hoss and Lars Eidinger star as inseparable twins in this intricate family drama set in Berlin’s elite theatrical circles.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, Managing Director of the TorinoFilmLab.

A conversation with Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, managing director of the TorinoFilmLab. The TorinoFilmLab is a year-round, international film laboratory that supports talents from all over the world through training, development, production & distribution funding activities. In this interview, she talks about all of these various activities, including the new initiative supporting audience development. She also talk about how the TorinoFilmLab has been impacted by the current global pandemic and urged them to make a wider use of new technologies.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jason Segel, director, actor and producer of new Amazon Prime Video series Dispatches from Elsewhere.

It reminds us the atmosphere of the Wizard of Oz, a modern journey through a magical world within ours, Dispatches from Elsewhere, the anthology series written, directed, produced and starred by Jason Segel, presented at the latest Berlinale 2020 and now finally on Amazon Prime Video in UK and Italy. Four characters guided by the face and voice of Richard E-Grant introducing them to the possibility of a change from what has been missing in their lives. Jason Segel describes wanting to make something of his own, exploring different creative opportunities after the fortunate decade in company of How I Met your Mother success and the romantic comedies that followed. Turning forty meant a creative challenge, creating a series that talks magically to its audience and take its hand through an unexpected journey.

Dispatches From Elsewhere is available on Amazon Prime Video from June 15th.

Dispatches from Elsewhere: Dispatches From Elsewhere is an enthralling new anthology series centered around four ordinary people who feel there’s something missing in their lives, but they can’t quite put their finger on what it is. This diverse foursome is brought together by chance – or perhaps it’s by design – when they stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. As they begin to accept the mysterious ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ challenges, they come to find that the mystery winds deeper than they imagined, and their eyes are opened to a world of possibility and magic.

To discover more about Dispatches From Elsewhere, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Leena Pasanen, director of Biografilm Festival.

A conversation with Leena Pasanen, director of Bologna’s Biografilm Festival, which runs on June 5-15. This year marks the first year of Pasanen at the helm of the annual event. And she has had her hands full, making sure everything runs smoothly as Biografilm pioneers its first digital edition, in response to the current global pandemic. In this interview, we ask her how it will function and some of the challenges they were faced with in setting it up. Also, we ask her about some of the films in the selection, and to highlight a few titles from the program.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jay Weissberg, director of Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival.

Jay Weissberg – film critic for Variety and director of Pordenone’s Silent Film Festival – talks about the silent film festival’s decision to go online later this year in response to the current global pandemic. The festival will run on October 3-10, Weissberg talks about whether this was a difficult decision to take, as well as whether he believes this will somehow benefit a the global discourse on film preservation. In the first part of our chat, he also shares his thoughts with us on the current situation and how cinema has been impacted in several ways.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Christoph Schwarz, director of the film The Best City Is No City at All.

A conversation with director Christoph Schwarz, whose short film The Best City Is No City at All won Best Austrian Film at this year’s Vienna Shorts. In this interview, Schwarz talks about his motivation for making this film – a 15-minute essay movie about an urban expansion area.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jerome Paillard, director of Cannes Film Market.

Jerome Paillard talks with Angelo Acerbi about the new unedited and original edition on line of the Cannes Film Market 2020: its purposes and goals, the technical aspects, the attractiveness to potential new attendees and the issue of time zones. A new exciting experience and a challenging one as well.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Nashen Moodley, director of the Sydney Film Festival.

Australia’s premier international film festival returns this year – virtually. “Since the 66th Sydney Film Festival in 2019, everything and nothing has changed. We aren’t together in a dark cinema sharing new ideas and worlds – but film is still where we look for them. So, Sydney Film Festival is back this year with a virtual program available to all homes across Australia.” (Nashen Moodley, Director)

Nashen Moodley talks about the difficult decision he took in March when the pandemic crisis hit to cancel the festival and why he revisited that decision in May and launched the 67th virtual edition of the Sydney Film Festival. Nashen also talks about the Sydney Film Festival partnership with Australia’s most distinctive streaming service SBS On Demand to present Sydney Film Festival Selects, a collection of 40 Sydney Film Festival titles to binge for free, from 10 June to 10 July. Nashen explores why going virtual is the best way to support the filmmaking industry and film festival audiences in these disruptive times. In fact, the Festival is also part of We Are One: A Global Film Festival, a free, global, online film festival, opening 29 May for audiences everywhere. This first-ever collaboration of the world’s greatest film festivals presents selections from each of the festivals involved. The Sydney Film Festival’s contribution is two ground-breaking Australian films from First Nations directors: Mabo (Rachel Perkins), and Mystery Road (Ivan Sen).

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amandla Stenberg and André Holland, actors of Netflix tv series The Eddy.

It doesn’t follow the rules of modern TV series, The Eddy, the new work by director Damien Chazelle, that comes from the collaboration between him and Alan Poul, BAFTA Award winner Jack Thorne (National Treasure) and six-time Grammy Award® winner Glen Ballard. The Eddy was presented at the 70th Berlinale in the Series section and it stars Amandla Stenberg and André Holland. The series is set in modern day Paris in a jazz bar among jazz musicians and despite real musicians and original music, is not a musical but a drama with a touch of thriller-noir. Stenberg and Holland reveal how they worked according to the series pace that it follows Jazz rules more than Tv series’s ones.

The Eddy: Directed by Academy Award® winner Damien Chazelle (La La Land), Emmy Award® winner Alan Poul (Tales of the City), Houda Benyamina (Divines) and Laïla Marrakchi (Le Bureau des Légendes), the Netflix original series The Eddy is an eight-episode drama that takes place in the vibrant multicultural neighborhoods of modern-day Paris. Once a celebrated jazz pianist in New York, Elliot Udo (André Holland) is now the co-owner of struggling club The Eddy, where he manages the house band fronted by lead singer and on-again-off-again girlfriend Maja (Joanna Kulig). As Elliot learns that his business partner Farid (Tahar Rahim) may be involved in some questionable practices at the club, secrets begin to come to light that have also been concealed from Farid’s wife Amira (Leïla Bekhti), and when Elliot’s troubled teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) suddenly arrives in Paris to live with him, his personal and professional worlds quickly start to unravel as he confronts his past, fighting to save the club and protect those closest to him. The series also stars Melissa George (In Treatment), Adil Dehbi (How I Became a Superhero), Benjamin Biolay (La douleur), Tchéky Karyo (The Missing) and rapper Sopico in his debut on-screen performance.

The Eddy is part of the 70th Berlinale series section and will be on Netflix from May 8th.

To discover more about the tv series, click here.

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