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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Grear Patterson and Olmo Schnabel, director and producer of the film Giants Being Lonely. 

Director Grear Patterson and producer Otto Schnabel presented their film, Giants Being Lonely in the Orizzonti section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. The film talks about the drama of adolescence at a specific point of their lives; the moment before prom. In this interview, they share their thought about the sense of timelessness of the movie, the cast and the specifically American vibes of the film.

Giants Being Lonely: In semi-rural Hillsborough, North Carolina, high school seniors Adam, Bobby, and Caroline navigate their final year through the ups and downs of sex, loneliness, murder, and baseball. A tale told by the one who survived.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand, directors of the film Woman.

Directors Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand talk about their latest work together Woman, having its official premiere here in Venezia 76. Based on first-person encounters, the project deals with topics such as motherhood, education, marriage or financial independence but also menstruations or sexuality. The public discovers the voices of women as you have never heard them before.

Woman is a worldwide project giving a voice to 2000 women across 50 different countries. Despite its very large scale, the film offers an intimate portrait of those who constitute half of the humanity. It is an opportunity to shed light on the injustices women are subjected to all over the world, but what the film would like to underline most is the inner strength of women and their capacity to change the world despite all the difficulties they are facing.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Olivier Assayas, director of the film Wasp Network. 

Olivier Assayas talks to FRED about how he convinced the Cuban government to allow the shooting in the island and how he worked with the actors in order to get a regular Cuban accent from them.

Wasp Network is the story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder. Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez, as leading actors, play a couple separated by exile, although a very different motive is revealed throughout the film.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jared P. Scott, director of the film The Great Green Wall. 

Amy Rose and May Abdalla conceived, created and produced The Collider. This immersive VR experience is intense and deep, makes you think and analyse yourself profoundly and it is also a magical and sensorial experience. Amy and May tell us more about it.

The Great Green Wall: The Collider is an immersive virtual and theatrical experience exploring power and dependency. The viewer is invited to enter a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. It operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of atoms, it hurls people against each other. Its mission: to identify and understand the invisible material that passes between people—the corrosive, delightful, and mysterious matter that keeps us together and pulls us apart. The experience guides the viewer along a journey, creating a moving choreography that becomes its own private spectacle within the heart of the machine.

To learn more about The Great Green Wall, click here and here the festival page.

Here Twitter and Facebook pages of the film. Here Jared P. Scott Twitter profile.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Amy Rose and May Abdalla, directors of the VR experience The Collider. 

Amy Rose and May Abdalla conceived, created and produced The Collider. This immersive VR experience is intense and deep, makes you think and analyse yourself profoundly and it is also a magical and sensorial experience. Amy and May tell us more about it.

The Collider: The Collider is an immersive virtual and theatrical experience exploring power and dependency. The viewer is invited to enter a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. It operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of atoms, it hurls people against each other. Its mission: to identify and understand the invisible material that passes between people—the corrosive, delightful, and mysterious matter that keeps us together and pulls us apart. The experience guides the viewer along a journey, creating a moving choreography that becomes its own private spectacle within the heart of the machine.

To learn more about the film The Collider, click here.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Chiara Nicoletti and Matt Micucci.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti come to you with the final daily report from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Aside from talking about this year’s closing film, Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy (starring, among others, legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger), Matt and Chiara discuss some of the minor prizes already announced and predict winners ahead of the award ceremony.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amjad Abu Alala, director of the filmYou Will Die at 20. 

Director Amjad Abu Alala talks to us about his latest feature film, You Will Die at 20, presented in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, which FRED Film Radio is media partner of. Abu Alala grew up in Dubai but went back for a lengthy production process in Sudan to make this movie, and he explains why in this interview. He also talks about some of the significance of You Will Die at 20, as well as its tone of hopefulness and whether he things about death, one of the central themes implied in the title, often.

You Will Die at 20: Sudan, province of Aljazira, the present. Shortly after Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the holy man of the village predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil’s father cannot stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yonfan, director of the film No. 7 Cherry Lane. 

Yonfan presented his latest film, No. 7 Cherry Lane, in the main competition of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. This film also feels historic because it is the first Hong Kong production to compete for the main prize at the Venice festival in nearly a decade, the first film directed by Yonfan in about a decade and his first work of animation – though he likes to define it a “motion picture,” and he tells us why here. Also in this interview, the director talks about the sexuality expressed in this movie and what it is that makes it a love letter to Hong Kong and cinema.

No. 7 Cherry Lane: During the rise of the materialistic comfort of life in the 1960s, there emerges an undercurrent of danger in Hong Kong. Ji yuan tai qi hao tells the tale of Ziming, a Hong Kong University undergraduate, entangled between his amorous feelings for Mrs Yu, a self-exiled mother from Taiwan in the White Terror period, and her beautiful daughter Meiling. He takes them to different movies and through a series of magical moments on the big screen, forbidden passions are revealed. The era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

Here the film website.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Karim Aïnouz, director and president of the jury for Giornate degli Autori.

Karin Aïnouz has been the president of the jury for Giornate Degli Autori. We talk about the film that won, of course, but mostly we discuss his way of making films, his aesthetic signature and what it is needed to make a good book adaptation.

For more information about Giornate degli Autori, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Shannon Murphy, director of the film Babyteeth.

Shannon Murphy is one of the two women directors competing for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Her debut film Babyteeth is a perfect mix between a coming of age story, a love story and a family one. Milla (Eliza Scanlen) is a teenager, she’s ill and could die. She has two soundly imperfect parents who constantly try to face their fear. She still has a babyteeth but her adolescence is kicking and screaming inside of her only to finally explode when she meets Moses (Toby Wallace), wild, impulsive, addicted to life, medicine and drugs. Moses is a breath of real life for Milla and rapidly becomes the only chance at living love before it’s too late. Shannon Murphy takes nothing for granted and explains how she keeps the balance between irony and drama, life and death from the beginning till the end. Colors, music and editing are in sync with Milla’s path.

Babyteeth: When seriously ill teenager Milla Finlay falls in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla shows everyone in her orbit—her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbor—how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Babyteeth joyously explores how good it is not to be dead and how far we will go for love.

If you want to know more about the film, click here.

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