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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Verena von Stackelberg, member of Berlinale Selection Committee.

An interview with Verena Von Stackelberg, recorded at the 2019 Cairo International Film Festival in Egypt. Von Stackelber is the founder and managing director of Wolf Kino Arthouse Cinema in Berlin, Germany, and part of the Berlinale’s selection committee for competition films. In this interview, she shared with us her impression of the Cairo International Film Festival, as a first-time attendee, and some of the innovations that have been actuated in the Berlinale over the past few months. We also get into a discussion about some of the changes that have impacted the film community at large, the role of cinemas as a physical space today and more.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi takes part in the conference held by Ferdinando Pastore, Stefania Ippoliti, Andrea Spagna and Iole Giannattasio, with title Italia: the place to film. 

Ferdinando Pastori of Italian Trading Office, Stefania Ippoliti (president of Italian Film Commissions Association), Andrea Spagna (Cinecittà Studios) and Iole Giannattasio (Ministry For Cultural heritage and Activities) presented at Focus London 2019 all the financial and technical helps that are provided on the Italian territory to film production companies, and introduced Italy For Movies, a new website where to find all information dedicated to financing and funding, locations and studios, facilities and crews, all in one single site.

This conference was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, 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 Stefania Ippoliti, from the Toscana Film Commission. 

The Manifatture Digitali Cinema (Digital Cinema factory, more or less…) are a new invention of the Toscana Film Commission to implement the offer of services to the productions and also to create new and additional value to the expertise that the artisans and workers in the region can provide in different creative working areas. But let’s hear it directly from the director of Toscana Film Commission, Stefania Ippoliti.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. To discover more about the Toscana Film Commission, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the screenwriter, Rasmus Horskjaer.

Rasmus Horskjaer is a screenwriter who also develops other writes projects. In Torino Film Lab he is tutor for the Script lab for projects and story editing. He tells us about his way of working with the writers in the Lab and also about his approach to writing and adapting.

This interview was recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Torino Film Lab, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Feature Project Jury, Adina Pintilie.

Adina Pintilie is the winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin 2018 with Touch Me Not, and she was one of the jury members for feature films projects at the Torino Film Lab. We talked about her role as juror, the importance of labs such as the Torino Film Lab for defending the diversity of expressive form in filmmaking and the impact of her film in the past months around the globe.

This interview was recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Torino Film Lab, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Alejandro Fernandez Almedras, director of the film Hra – The Play.

Alejandro Fernandez Almendraz talks with Fred Radio about his film Hra (The Play): the challenge of doing something different and less safe than usual, the fascination of the memories of the films he saw as a young man and the huge help in marketing and finding the right places and audiences for his film he got form the Audience Design grant from the Torino Film Lab.

Hra – The Play: The world of a young theatre director in a small Czech town crumbles, after he decides to realise his dream – adapt an overly ambitious play based on Euripides classic Fedra. During rehearsals he loses his two main actors and falls for a young actress, Karolina. Tensions at his home grow. He’s not much of a present husband and a father. And to make things worse, municipality threatens to cut funding due to the play’s political content. The day of the premiere comes and our protagonist, abandoned by both of his women, desperately tries to save his masterpiece. However the play is a fiasco.

This interview was recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Torino Film Lab, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews distributor, Vanja Kaludercic.

Vanja Kaludercic is a distributor, she works on one of the most important and biggest international SVOD platforms, MUBI; she is a consultant for the Torino Film Lab, where she looks for new voices in filmmaking to nurture, as a distributor and also co-producer. She also explains how online distribution works and developed and how it has become an alternative but not a substitute for theatrical distribution.

This interview was recorded during the Torino Film Lab, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency. 

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actor Fares Landoulsi.

An interview with Fares Landoulsi, Tunisian actor and one of the film talents selected for the Arab Stars of Tomorrow showcase hosted by the 2019 Cairo International Film Festival in collaboration with Screen International. Landoulsi introduces himself to our listeners and talks about his interest in acting. He also reveals with us, without spoiling anything, his experience of working on Messiah, the Netflix series with which he will be making his international debut next year.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews crowdfunding and marketing consultant, Paul Rieth.

Paul Rieth shares pills of his knowledge about crowdfunding with Angelo Acerbi, covering all aspects of it, most of all the necessity of knowing your audience and therefore the importance of audience design as a part of a project, right from the start.

This interview was recorded during the Torino Film Lab, thanks to the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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An interview film filmmaker Raed Alsemari, from Saudi Arabia, who was selected as one of the talents for the Arab Stars of Tomorrow showcase at the 2019 Cairo International Film Festival, curated by Screen International. Alsemari also recently directed Dunya’s Day, which has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards live action short film category, following its success at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. In this interview we talk about this film as well as his personal motivation for becoming a filmmaker and a snapshot of the nascent film industry of Saudi Arabia.

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