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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Yaron Shani, director of the film Stripped.

An interview with filmmaker Yaron Shani, director of Stripped, which premiered in the Orizzonti section of the 75th Venice Film Festival. This is the first part of Shani’s previously announced Love Trilogy, which explores the theme through a blurring of reality and fiction. The director talks about its interesting process and collaboration with the non-professional actors, and shares with us his thought on the theme of love, connection and his lack of belief in clearly defined differences between the good and the bad in people – also in relation to his own identity as a filmmaker within a film festival context.

Stripped: 34-year-old Alice’s recent success in the literary world is upset by disturbing feelings of anxiety. Invasive images of sexual abuse haunt her and panic attacks intensify, leaving her stripped of all confidence and desire for human contact. In the building across the street, 17-year-old Ziv lives with his parents. He’s a talented young man who dreams of being a professional musician. When leaving for the army the demands of adulthood fall hard on him, he will be left sad and vulnerable, stripped of his dreams and innocence. A random call from neighbour Alice will allow him to meet the object of his teenage fantasies. The critical meeting of these two modern urbanites will produce both destruction and growth, violence and grace.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director of the Venice Production Bridge. 

Pascal Diot, director of the Venice Production Bridge, tells us about the new features of each section that composes the Venice Market, from the Venice Gap Financing to the Book Adaptation Rights Market, to Final Cut in Venice. A never stopping growth for a boutique film market that delivers every time.

Click here to see the program of the Venice Production Bridge.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Paul Iacovou, producer of the film The Ghost of Peter Sellers.

Paul Iacovou joins us at our studio booth in Venice to discuss his latest production: The Ghost of Peter Sellers. The Ghost of Peter Sellers unearths the traumatic experience that esteemed director Peter Medak had whilst attempting to shoot the 1973 comedy Ghost on the Noonday Sun. The trauma had a face, a voice and a one-of-a-kind charisma: Peter Sellers.

The Ghost of Peter Sellers: In 1973 Peter Sellers embarked on a pirate comedy for Columbia Pictures. He lost confidence with the film immediately and tried to sabotage it, firing the producers then turning on his friend the director, Peter Medak. At its core lies the story of an unraveling production but also the tale of a young director firmly on a path to greatness. Medak had made 3 back-to-back successes; most notably The Ruling Class in ‘72 with Peter O’ Toole (nominated for the Palme d’Or). This film changed his career forever. After 45 years the wounds have barely healed for Medak and this is his opportunity to tell the story and finally relieve himself of the burden associated with its failure. The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a comic-tragic feature doc about what it takes to be a film director and survive your biggest disaster.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Amin Palangi,  artistic director of the Persian Film Festival.

Festival director Amin Palangi talks about the program and how its diversity aims to shift views and misconceptions by creating spaces for new and alternative voices of Persian-Australians and by being a forum for dialogue between and amongst diverse communities.

Founded in 2011, it is a one of a kind festival that showcases films by Persian-speaking filmmakers. Through screenings, master classes and cultural events it celebrates Persian rich cinematic culture in and with Australian communities.

For the official page of the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST| Nicolò Comotti interviews Eric Darnell, director of the film Crow: The Legend.

For the second consecutive year, Venice VR brings unites the Virtual Reality world at Lazzaretto Vecchio island. Among the many immersive experiences anyone can have, we had the chance to see, hear and live within the insightful story of Crow: The Legend. Crow: The Legend is based on a native American ancient tale that director Eric Darnell heard not long ago and yet instantly decided it was the perfect project to bring to (virtual) reality. With his team at Baobab, Darnell created Crow: a fun, gracefully crafted ride that can spearhead VR into new horizons.

Crow: The Legend is inspired by the origin of the crow, played by John Legend, who is a brilliantly plumbed bird who is nominated by his fellow animals to bring warmth back to a world stuck in an endless winter. His journey is rewarded and he carries the gift of fire back to his fellow animals in his beak however, in doing so he sacrifices what is most dear to him.

To know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Elena Di Giovanni, for FRED’s new periodical programme on media accessibility.

FRED is pleased to present a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep them updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

Elena Di Giovanni, an Associate Professor of English Translation at the University of Macerata, speaks about media accessibility in academic and non-academic contexts and presents the Macerata Opera Festival and its accessibility services.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Anna Matamala, for FRED’s new periodical programme on media accessibility.

FRED is pleased to present a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep them updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

Anna Matamala is Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and she is Member of TransMedia research group and TransMedia Catalonia.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Pablo Romero Fresco, for FRED’s new periodical programme on media accessibility.

FRED is pleased to present a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep them updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

As leader of MAP, Media Accessibility Platform that he founded together with three researchers Gian Maria Greco, Anna Matamala and Pilar Orero, Pablo Romero Fresco talks about the Media Accessibility Platform International Conference that took place in Vigo last October and its action points. He gives his personal definition of media accessibility and tells us about his contribution to the UMAQ project “Understanding Media Accessibility Quality” with the panel Negotiating Quality in Accessibility: The Case of Live Subtitling. Pablo Romero Fresco is also a filmmaker and his first documentary, Joining the Dots (2012), was used by Netflix as well as schools around Europe to raise awareness about audiodescription. Now he’s currently working on new documentary.

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PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Agnieszka Szarkowska, for FRED’s new periodical programme on media accessibility.

FRED is pleased to present a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep them updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

Agnieszka Szarkowska is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London (2016-2018). She is now working on the SURE project: Exploring Subtitle Reading Process with Eye Tracking Technology. Since 2007, she has also been Assistant Professor in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw. She is the founder and head of the Audiovisual Translation Lab (AVT Lab) and specializes in audiovisual translation, especially subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and audio description. She is a member of European Association for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and an honorary member of the Polish Audiovisual Translators Association (STAW). In the interview, Dr Szarkowska describes the current situation of media accessibility at both national and international level, both in academic and non-academic contexts. She also presents some interesting results stemming from one of her latest projects, Exploring Subtitle Reading with Eye Tracking Technology (SURE), which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The study was conducted at the Centre for Translation Studies in cooperation with Deafness Cognition and Language Centre at University College London in spring 2017. The goal of the project was to experimentally study the subtitle reading process in terms of optimum subtitle presentation times (reading speed) and line breaks (segmentation).

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti and Francesca Raffi interview some of the experts in media accessibility. This episode includes contributions from Pablo Romero Fresco, Agnieszka Szarkowska, Gian Maria Greco, Anna Matamala and Elena Di Giovanni.

FRED is pleased to present a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep them updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020.

Pablo Romero Fresco, the Ramón y Cajal grant holder at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University of Roehampton (London, UK), talks to us about new projects on accessible filmmaking and about the results of the international conference held in Vigo last October.

Agnieszka Szarkowska is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies, University College London. After defining media accessibility today, she speaks to FRED about the SURE project: Exploring Subtitle Reading Process with Eye Tracking Technology.

Gian Maria Greco, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, is back on FRED to talk about the UMAQ conference which was held in Barcelona on June 4th and 5th, 2018.

Anna Matamala is a Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation at the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. As a researcher in the field, she gives her opinion on the current situation of media accessibility, especially in academic contexts.

Finally, Elena Di Giovanni, an Associate Professor of English Translation at the University of Macerata (Italy), speaks about media accessibility in academic and non-academic contexts and presents the Macerata Opera Festival and its accessibility services.

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