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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor William Baldwin.

At the 2nd edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival he received the Filming Italy Award and now William Baldwin, brother of Stephen and Alec, is on Amazon Video with the miniseries directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Too Old to Die Young, North of Hollywood, West of Hell. As the Festival often awards the talents that are also activist, Baldwin talks about the responsabilities that being a public persona, famous people carry with them, whether they want to accept this being a role model or not. Since everybody knows that working with Nicolas Winding Refn is totally a different and odd experience, Baldwin describes the state of mind he had to embrace in order to get deeper into Nick Refn’s creative and delirious world. Baldwin is, for a small percentage, italian so he can’t avoid to declare his favourite among the contemporary italian directors, who in Baldwin’s case, is Valeria Golino.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor Darren Criss.

Darren Criss is first of all a fan of creativity, of artists giving him emotions. “Connecting to people for a living”, that’s the main task of an artist and Glee Star, founder of Starkid Productions and author of the musical A Very Potter Musical knows it very well. At the 2nd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival the actor and musician talks about the first time he actually felt he had connected to fans around the world and tells us about a very funny episode as a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond, whose shooting he bumped up into during a family holiday in Rome. He doesn’t miss the Glee period but he’s grateful for that moment in his life. Luckily he and Ryan Murphy intersected paths again with American Crime Story and it has been a successful and idylliac artistic relationship so far.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Michel Hazanavicius.

Away from the usual challenge that any filmmaker must face while promoting his or her films, we had the chance to have a light-hearted and yet really interesting conversation with acclaimed director Michel Hazanavicius, here at BRIFF as the guest of honour of the new and ambitious festival.

Michael Hazanavicius was born in Paris in 1967. After studying art his career takes off in television when he joins the comedy team “Les Nuls” (Canal+). Also for Canal+, with Dominique Mezerette he creates a series of “hijacked films” such as La Classe Américaine for which he strings together scenes from various Hollywood classics and dubs the result with a unifying French dialogue that has nothing to do with the original screenplays. After acting in La Cité de La Peur des Nuls, he co-wrote the screenplay Delphine 1 – Yvan 0 (1996) directed by Dominique Farrugia. He writes radio plays for les Nuls, then directs a short film Echec au Capital, and then a feature length film Mes Amis. He directs a number of ads for which he wins many prizes including a Silver Lion at Cannes. In 2005 he co-writes and co-produces a documentary on the Rwandan genocide entitled Tuez-les tous! His career takes a leap forward when he directs the off-the-wall spy thriller OSS117, Le Caire nid d’espions starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. Three years later, Dujardin will reprise the role in OSS117: Rio ne répond plus. Still working with Dujardin and Bejo he reaches international renown with The Artist which screens at Cannes in 2011. An ambitious endeavor, this black and white, silent movie follows the career of George Valentin, silent movie star in the Hollywood of the 1920’s, whose career is ended by the arrival of the talkies. The film won awards internationally including 5 Academy Awards. After directing a section of the ensemble film Les Infidels, he changes gears with The Search, a drama that follows three separate lives during the Second Chechen War. In 2017, with Riad Sattouf and Florence Gastaud he co-founds production company Les Compagnons du Cinéma and they produce Le Redoutable, based on the book “Un an après” by Anne Wiazemsky. A biopic on a period in Jean-Luc Godard’s life, Le Redoutable is selected for the official competition at Cannes. His next film, Le Prince Oublié, an adventure comedy starring Omar Sy, François Damiens and Bérénice Bejo will open in January 2020.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Jakob Cedergren, actor and juror.

Jakob Cedergren sits down with us in Brussels at the beginning of his adventure as Juror for the 2nd edition of BRIFF. We talk about acting, cinema, its endless expectations..and what guides him to choose the right project.

Jakob Cedergren is an acclaimed and award winning Swedish-born Danish actor. He has worked in numerous Scandinavian and International film, TV and theatre projects. After his big breakthrough in the Danish mini-series The Spider, he performed leading roles in Stealing Rembrandt (2003) and Dark Horse (2005), which was chosen for the “Un Certain Regard” series at Cannes Film Festival. Cedergren received much praise for his leading roles in Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino in 2011 and Nils Malmros’ Sorrow and Joy in 2014. In 2018, Cedergren played the leading role in Gustav Möller’s thriller The Guilty. For this achievement Cedergren won the Danish Academy Award for Best Actor. The Guilty premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018 and won The Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Bouli Lanners.

Bouli Lanners tells us few simple and yet essential things to do when cinephiles want to commit themselves into doing something concrete for our planet. If everyone did it, a real change would come.

He follows up the work of economists and nuclear physicists, supports the mobilization of youngsters on climate issues, fearlessly critizes the authorities’ inertia on social media… Bouli Lanners is on the frontline when it comes to global warming and the nuclear issue. At the BRIFF Bouli Lanners seizes his carte blanche to discuss these thorny issues and start the debate. After the screening of Fukushima, The Seal of the Sun, Bouli Lanners and Francis Leboutte (civil engineer and founding member of the association Fin du nucléaire) will meet the public to discuss the nuclear issue. The discussion will be led by the columnist Félicien Bogaerts (J-Terre, Classic 21, …)

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Sara Summa and composer Ben Roessler of the film The Last to See Them.

Director Sara Summa and composer Ben Roessler recount their experience while making Summa’s first feature The Last to See Them. A film that defy and standardisation in the realm of cinematic genres, The Last to See Them is a courageous meditation on life and its precious yet unsung moments. Even more so, when we all know the end is inescapable.

The Last to See Them: The Durati family lead an idyllic, secluded life in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by olive groves. Their daily routines are not particularly spectacular, although the eldest daughter is soon to be married and each of the family members is preparing for the wedding in their own way. The film makes no secret of the fact that father Enzo, mother Alice, daughter Dora and son Matteo will not survive the coming day. The knowledge of their imminent demise changes how the viewer sees their everyday actions, their plans both big and small. The fragility of life shines through and it almost feels like everything is slowing down. The smallest events are shown from different perspectives, lending them greater significance. The editing, music and tracking shots make the inescapable end appear like a trancelike countdown. Death and manslaughter are common film themes. By concentrating so radically on the “before”, Sara Summa tells the story of a brutal crime in an entirely unique way. Gli ultimi a vederli vivere is much more a tender tale of life than one of death. We’re the last to see them living.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Wang Xhiaoshuai, director of the film So Long, My Son.

Wang Xhiaoshuai talks to us about his way of representing life through cinema. Through his characters and their memories, we understand also his relationship with China and the forgotten protagonists that shape its contemporary identity.

So Long, My Son: So Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social, political and human upheaval in China. Following the loss of a child in a tragic accident, their paths separate. Destinies ebb and flow, and fortunes are transformed under the impact of a country’s changing face. Yet even as their lives diverge, a common search for truth and reconciliation around the tragedy remains. But sometimes it can take a lifetime to say farewell. So Long, My Son chronicles people and a society in full transformation – in which human relationships and the tumultuous evolution of a nation are inevitably and inextricably intertwined.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actress Claire Forlani.

To stop thinking about the past and never look back, that’s the secret Claire Forlani shares with us during her stay at the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, where she received the Filming Italy Award. The actress, while trying to recall the very moment in which she took a decision that inevitably change her life, confess how she learned not to look back at her past anymore to go on and be happy with what she has. Claire Forlani also comments on the changes and progresses Hollywood has made from the Time’s Up and MeToo movements with a positive attitude towards the future.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jesse Williams actor and director of the TV serie Grey’s Anatomy.

He has been playing Jackson Avery from Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy, the longest medical drama series of TV history but only recently, Jesse Williams took on the role of director, for the first time in his life, to direct some episodes of season 14 and 15 of the TV series, starting from episode 22: Fight for your mind. At the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, the actor, director and activist receives the Filming Italy TV Award and comments on the strongest elements and reasons why Grey’s Anatomy keeps attracting millions of fans all over the world and never loses strength. Jesse Williams then describes his first approach to directing visually and with his fellow actors colleagues. While in the US the 15′ season finale has already been aired, in Italy episode n. 24 will air on Monday June 17th. Jesse Williams will be in Season 16 but as we all know, Shonda Rhimes, the show creator, never tells anything to her actors nor do the screenwriters so the mistery in which every character falls into in the last episode will be unfolded in the next season.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Erin Richards actress of the TV serie Gotham.

Erin Richards is one of the main guests of the 2nd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival where she presents episode 7 of Gotham‘s Season 5. The actress who plays Barbara Kean in the TV series based on the DC comic books, has already directed some episodes of the series and is now embarking on a new project, her directorial debut on a film that takes inspiration from horror films such as The Babadook. Erin Richards explains her choice of debuting with a genre film as sometimes fantasy and genre are strong devices to talk about the present, even strongest than more “neo-realistic” films. As she started working in TV when Netflix, Amazon and other platforms were still not as huge as they are today, the actress and director comments on the positive and negative sides of the infinite possibilities that streaming and TV series can offer.

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