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PODCAST| Mirella Vasileva interviews producer Eilon Ratzkovsky.

Eilon Ratzkovsky is an Israelian film producer, known for his films In the Dark Room (2013) and Atlit (2014). At Sarajevo Film Festival, he is one of the mentors working with the screenwriters participating in 12th Talents Sarajevo – Script Station. For FRED Film Radio, he talks about his experience with the Sarajevo film festival and his work as a mentor to young scriptwriters.

Interview by Mirella Vasileva, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Mirella Vasileva interviews Ana-Maria Voicu, producer of the film The Day the Child in Me Died.

Ana-Maria Voicu has recently graduated film producing and she is participating in Sarajevo Talent Campus as a producer and as a participant in the Pack & Pitch section. For FRED Film Radio, she talks about the new film The Day the Child in Me Died, directed by Vlad Buzaianu, which she produces. In the interview, she gives us details about the plot and the source of inspiration.

Interview by Mirella Vasileva, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Barbara Majsa interviews Pinar Yorgancioglu, director of the film Those Who Whistle After Dark.

Pinar Yorgancioglu is a Columbia University alumna with a focus on directing and editing, and she is one of the participants of Talents Sarajevo Pack & Pitch section. For FRED Film Radio, she talks about her dark comedy Those Who Whistle After Dark, which she pitched at the festival. Besides summarising the plot, she elaborates on the sources of inspiration for the film as well as about her expectation regarding audience responses.

Interview by Barbara Majsa, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Barbara Majsa interviews screenwriter Olivia Hetreed.

Olivia Hetreed is a multi-award winning screenwriter known for films such as Girl with a Pearl Earring. At the Sarajevo Film Festival, she is one of the mentors working with the screenwriters participating in 12th Talents Sarajevo – Script Station. For FRED Film Radio, she gives insight into her work as a mentor, reflects on her career in the film and TV industry as well as emphasizes the importance of film festivals in filmmaker’s career. In addition to that, she gives some advice to emerging screenwriters who want to kick off their career in the industry.

Interview by Barbara Majsa, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Nadina Štefančič interviews international casting director Debbie McWilliams.

Debbie McWilliams is an internationally renowned casting director from the UK, who has most famously cast the last 13 films from the James Bond franchise. Among the directors she has worked with are Roman Polanski, Stephen Frears, Anthony Minghella, Sam Mendes, Martin Campbell, and Ron Howard. McWilliams was a guest of the program “Casting at the Heart of Filmmaking” at the 24th Edition of Sarajevo film Festival, centering on the casting profession, organized in cooperation with the International Casting Directors Network (ICDN). As a part of the program, she held a masterclass for the participants of Talents Sarajevo, talking to them about collaborating with casting directors. In our interview, she told us about the media attention that comes with casting films with a huge fan base, how the transgender actors are starting to get their mark in the film industry and in what way young actors can improve their possibilities for getting cast in international films.

Interview by Nadina Stefancic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Nadina Štefančič interviews Thanos Psichogios, director of the film Remember.

Thanos Psichogios is a Greek film director, currently working on his feature film Remember. He was one of the participants of the Pack & Pitch program – a part of 12th Sarajevo Talents program at the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival. He pitched his film project to international film professionals, scouting for up-an-coming talent and won The Best Pack & Pitch Award. In our interview Psichogios talked about the story behind his new film, why he chose a 16-year old girl as the protagonist, how today’s Greece will be characterized through the narrative and why hope is the central theme of his art.

Interview by Nadina Stefancic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 12th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews reporter Nadina Štefančič, who tells us about CineLink talk event titled “ACE Interview with Meinholf Zurhost”.

Talent press participant Nadina Štefančič reports from the CineLink talk event titled “ACE Interview with Meinholf Zurhost.” This public interview with ARTE’s head of film department was part of a rich program of masterclasses, debates and seminars of CineLink that are open to all Sarajevo Film Festival and industry guests.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Gisselle Gallego, festival programmer of the Sydney Latin American Film Festival.

Festival programmer Gisselle Gallego explores this year’s program, which comprises 11 films and one selection of shorts from nine South American countries.

The Sydney Latin American Film Festival, through its Community Support Program, raises money to eradicate inequalities in Latin America through education and housing programs.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Megumi Sasaki, director of the film A Whale of A Tale.

We met Megumi Sasaki in New York at the US opening of A Whale of A Tale. She told us about her feelings after the movie The Cove pointed the finger at the little village of Taiji in Japan. What happened after is beyond activism: it is an example of internet bullying which ruined the peace of a little village with hundreds of years of history. Sasaki points out that this is a battle between localism and globalism. This movie is one of the first talking about what internet bullying means in this kind of situation, and as many people as possible should see what being attacked by the media means, and why we should have enough information before making a judgement. The movie is opening August 17th at the QUAD theatre in New York, August 24th in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall, September 7th in San Francisco and also in September in Seattle.

A Whale of A Tale: After the movie The Cove won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2010, the fishermen in Taiji were attacked over social media and media. The Cove vilified the fishermen in Taiji, who were there for hundreds of years hunting whales. For the first time after almost eight years, A Whale of a Tale is giving a voice to the people of Taiji.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Eric Matti, director of the film BuyBust.

BuyBust by Eric Matti was selected for the closing night of the New York Asian Film Festival 2018. With a selection of over 50 movies from China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, it is the most comprensive festival of Asian movies in New York City. At the world premiere of BuyBust, we had the pleasure to meet the director Eric Matti and talked about how he got the idea to write a movie set in the most dangerous place in Manila and how he worked with the stuntmen and actors to create this dystopian movie about a one-night operation of an anti-narcotics squad. We then talked about some technical aspects of the movie, like the impressive sound editing and the rich and striking soundtrack which includes traditional instruments, classical music, heavy metal and much more. The movie will premier in the Philippines July 23rd and will open in theaters August 1st. The movie has already a distributor for the United States and Canada and will open August 10th.

BuyBust: After two decades making erotica, fantasy, horror, thrillers and a superhero comedy, Erik Matti directs his first all-out action film. And it’s relentless, featuring 309 stuntmen, 1,278 extras, and a wildly ambitious three-minute, one-cut action scene in which superstar Anne Curtis fights back hordes of thugs across rain-drenched rooftops. Curtis stars as Nina, a rookie police officer on a doomed buy-bust operation with an elite anti-narcotic squad. Matching The Raid and The Villainess in scope and body count, the director of On the Job and Honor Thy Father also takes a sharp knife to contemporary political realities in the Philippines.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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