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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Haytham Chamass, founder of Art Factory 961.

An interview with Haytham Chamass, Lebanese documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and founder of Art Factory 961. The interview was recorded at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic, where he was part of the jury for the Czech Competition. On our chat, Chamass talks about the power of documentary and Art Factory 961 – a Beirut-based non-profit NGO, that focuses on advocating human rights by using arts – and its Karama Beirut Human Rights Film Festival, which takes place in July and regularly met with silent opposition from the Lebanese government.

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Andrea Culková, director of the film Grief.

An interview with filmmaker Andrea Culková, who presented her latest film Grief at the 2020 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague, Czech Republic. The film follows a group of female environmental activists and also talks a lot about the introduction of emotions in environmental discourse. In this chat, Culková tells us more about the grief of the movie (the title translates from Czech as “The Grief of Women”), about climate change and other plagues of our planet, the film’s structure and concludes with some thoughts on the current Coronavirus outbreak.

Grief: GRIEF. The heroines of the film are seriously concerned about the future of humanity and the planet. They organise activist events within the Czech branch of the Extinction Rebellion movement, which raises awareness about the impacts of the global environmental crisis.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Riccardo Scamarcio, actor of the film If Only.

We sit down with Riccardo Scamarcio to discuss his two very differing father figure roles in films If Only and Stolen days, both presented at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London. If Only is the feature debut of film producer Ginevra Elkann and Scamarcio shared his experience of working with her on her first and very personal film alongside child actors also performing in their first film. He also spoke about the contrasting father role he played as a bona fide criminal in noir Stolen Days.

If Only:  Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, three tight-knit siblings live in Paris in the safe, albeit bizarre, bourgeois world of their Russian-Orthodox mother. One day they are suddenly packed and sent off into the arms of their absent, unconventional and completely broke Italian father Carlo, who has no idea how to look after himself, let alone his kids. Despite the daily challenges and tensions, the children can’t help but hope for the family to be reunited. “Captivating drama of a connected family that is a partly autobiographical and impressive debut from noted producer Ginevra Elkann” – Adrian Wootton, curator of Cinema Made in Italy, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Ginevra Elkann, director of the film If Only.

We sat down with producer Ginevra Elkann to discuss her feature debut If Only and how she was inspired to tell a semi-autobiographical story of coming of age. Elkann explains how she was able to elicit very naturalistic performances from a a group of child actors working on their first film alongside the excellent Riccardo Scamarcio as their haphazard father and Alba Rohrwacher as his bohemian lover, with a 90s-infused aesthetic.

If Only:  Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, three tight-knit siblings live in Paris in the safe, albeit bizarre, bourgeois world of their Russian-Orthodox mother. One day they are suddenly packed and sent off into the arms of their absent, unconventional and completely broke Italian father Carlo, who has no idea how to look after himself, let alone his kids. Despite the daily challenges and tensions, the children can’t help but hope for the family to be reunited. “Captivating drama of a connected family that is a partly autobiographical and impressive debut from noted producer Ginevra Elkann” – Adrian Wootton, curator of Cinema Made in Italy, CEO of Film London and the British Film Commission.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nanette Burstein, director of the film Hillary.

“Who does she think she is?” this is how Hulu is presenting its 4-part docu-series on Hillary Rodham Clinton presented at the Sundance Film Festival and at the 70th Berlinale. Director Nanette Burstein describes her approach on her long interview to Hillary Clinton, her first impression when she met her and how she went along working on this 4 part docu-series. Why does Hillary Rodham Clint keep being a person people either love or hate? There are no grey areas. In the interview, Nanette Burstein tries to elaborate how she started from this big question to arise a bigger one on how gender, sex and sexism affected the course of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s election and career in general.

Hillary: A remarkably intimate portrait of a public woman, ​Hillary​ interweaves revealing moments from never-before-seen 2016 campaign footage with biographical chapters of her life. Featuring exclusive interviews with Hillary Rodham Clinton herself, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, friends and journalists, the series examines how she became at once one of the most admired and vilified women in the world.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tim Wagendorp, Sustainability Coordinator of Flanders Audiovisual Fund.

Tim Wagendorp is a sustainability expert that entered the film industry when the green filming issue started to become a central one for the film and tv productions . In this interview with Angelo Acerbi he explains and specifies the procedures and the reasons behind them , enumerating the cases and the figures that make the issue of green sustainability in film productions a central one, all over the world.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nevina Satta, director of Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission.

Nevina Satta has been one of the first person and commssioner to embrace the fight for a green sustainability in film productions. Now that the issue has become global, she talks with Angelo Acerbi about the state of the art of this crucial aspect of the film industry and in the world generally. And of course she also talks about the films in Berlinale that were helped through her film commission’s programme.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Daniela Kirchner, Chief Operating Officer of Film London.

Daniela Kirchner goes through a detailed explanation with Angelo Acerbi of the various degrees of green sustainability that Film London requires to film productions. It is really important to understand the reasons for these procedures and the future developments , already in progress. Of course it is important as well to know if Brexit would affect all these actions which are based on European collaborations and shared protocols.

This interview was recorded during the 70th edition of Berlin International Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Agnieszka Holland, director of the film Charlatan.

Agnieszka Holland is an outspoken and a political film director who always manages to tell private stories with political resonance. She talks in this interview about her approach to the film, her career, censorship and being a woman director, when she started and in present days.

Charlatan:  Jan Mikolášek is the epitome of aplomb and solidarity. He is talented, sensitive, assertive and enigmatic. In his youth and when he is older, regardless of whether he is in private or public, he is a man of action, reason and intuition. A faith healer. Just one glance at the urine bottle is enough for him to know what ails his patient. With fame comes fortune, and this at a time when Czechoslovakia is a pawn in a game being played by the major power blocs. Protected and used by both the National Socialist and Communist regimes, he steps in wherever the system fails. But during the post-Stalinist years, the political climate becomes unpredictable and his special status is endangered. Along with his assistant František, with whom, as the secret police are well aware, he has much more in common than herbal medicine, the charlatan finds his morals being put to the test. Based on the life of Jan Mikolášek (1889–1973), and with a screenplay by Marek Epstein, Agnieszka Holland once again explores the link between the private and the political, and the relationship between the passage of time and the story of an unconventional individual.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Prateek Vats, director of the film Eeb Allay Ooo!

Combining documentary-like sensitivity and a keen sense of Indian humour, director Vats creates Eeb Allay Ooo!, a farce about the harsh life of an underdog in a modern megalopolis that subtly reflects contemporary society. Eeb Allay Ooo! is having its European premiere in the Panorama section of the 70th edition of the Berlinale.

Eeb Allay Ooo!:  Anjani lives with his heavily pregnant sister and her husband in a shack in New Delhi. He is one of the countless migrants moving to India’s expanding cities. His brother-in-law has arranged a job for him as a professional monkey repeller. Ever since the keeping of langur monkeys – the natural enemies of rhesus monkeys – has been prohibited, humans have taken on the tricky job of preventing the cheeky rhesus monkeys from invading government buildings, as well as protecting tourists. This is complicated by the fact that many Indians worship the monkeys as incarnations of the god Hanuman and reverently feed them, which only serves to make the animals even bolder. Anjani is afraid of the monkeys. On one particular feast day, the situation escalates and he resorts to unusual measures.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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