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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Anne Curtis, actress of the films BuyBust and Sid & Aya.

We had the pleasure to talk with Anne Curtis at the closing night of New York Asian Film Festival 2018. She plays the protagonist in two of the six movies selected from the Philippines: in Eric Matti’s BuyBust as Nina, a police officer on a doomed buy-bust operation with an elite anti-narcotic squad, and the cheeky cafe waitress Aya in Irene Villamor’s Sid & Aya, inspired by the the black swan theory of Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Anne Curtis told us how she worked with Eric Matti and how she prepared for this physically demanding role, without a body double. We then talk about the work she did with Irene Villamor to create the complex character of Aya. We previously met both directors, who were enthusiastic about working with her. Finally, we talked about how she chooses her projects. Her kindness is beyond imagination. The line of fans waiting to meet her after the screening of both movies was around the block! We can’t wait to see her in her next project!

BuyBust: 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 Eric Matti also takes a sharp knife to contemporary political realities in the Philippines. A Well Go USA release.

Sid & Aya: After decades of films that followed formula, a handful of (mostly) female filmmakers are reinventing the staple genre of Philippines cinema: the romance. Irene Villamor is at the vanguard, with vibrant dialogue, honest situations…and sex. Here, Dingdong Dantes plays a cutthroat stockbroker who can’t sleep at night. He befriends Anne Curtis’s sassy cafe waitress and offers to pay her $20 an hour to talk him through his insomnia. But she becomes the one in control in this anti-romance that has as much to say about class war as the battle of the sexes.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Lora Mure-Ravaud, director of the film Blackjack.

An interview with director Lora Mure-Ravaud, from France, who was selected to be part of Future Frames at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. European Film Promotion (EFP) presents ten outstanding young directors from Europe with their latest work at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival every year. Mure-Ravaud’s film is called Blackjack.

Blackjack:  Fleeting encounters, a mutual attraction that requires no words. Two lonely people who meet in an unusual place. Leila works as a croupier at a hotel casino in a predominantly male environment; Camil books himself a room in the same hotel… A fragment of the life of a woman whose singular appearance prompts a myriad of questions; Leila, however, guards her privacy assiduously.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Mehdi Avaz and Julie Christiansen, director and actress of the film While We Live.

Mehdi Avaz talks about the making of the film While We Live and how the story was inspired by the events that occurred to a friend of his while he was in high school. Julie Christiansen talks about the leading female character, Trine, who, despite the terrible events affecting her life, refuses to be a victim, showing incredible strengths and resilience.

While We Live: Inspired by true events, While We Live is a story of family, loss and love that follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine after a tragic accident. The story is told through a brilliantly intricate narrative that interweaves past and present to peel back layers of buried resentment and guilt.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, artistic director of Cairo Film Festival.

An interview with Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, artistic director of the Cairo Film Festival, from the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. This year, the Cairo Film Festival will celebrate its landmark 40th edition and run from November 20 to November 29. The artistic director talks to us about the objectives of the festival, its structure, the current situation of Egyptian film and its presence on the international scene and more. He also talks to us about his experience in Karlovy Vary this year and his opinion on the overall quality of the films he has seen here.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Zita Erffa, director of the documentary The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life.

Director Zita Erffa presented her feature documentary The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life in the official documentary competition of the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film talks about an intimate and personal story, as the director herself tries to reconnect with her quasi-estranged brother, who has a conservative Catholic order of priests. Here, she talks about working on the project, how her own attitude towards the order changed while she was filming, and how the cameras impacted her reconnection with her brother.

The Best Thing You Can Do With Your Life:  Why did the director’s brother enter a conservative Roman Catholic order, causing him to sever all ties with the outside world? The shooting of this fresh, self-reflexive documentary about an eroded sibling bond becomes the pretext for long-desired personal contact and a therapeutic aid to help her heal herself.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Neven Samardzic, director of the film Clean.

An interview with director Neven Samardzic, from Georgia, who was selected to be part of Future Frames at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. European Film Promotion (EFP) presents ten outstanding young directors from Europe with their latest work at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival every year. Samardzic’s film is called Clean.

Clean:  Fudo is a drug addict, but after his best friend overdoses, he is determined to stay clean. He’s confident that, this time, it’ll definitely work out. With no money and no dignity, he begins the first day of his new life. An optimistically realistic film which reminds us that junkies deserve hope too.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews consultant Isabelle Fauvel at Torino Film Lab.

Isabelle Fauvel, tutor at Torino Film Lab, consultant for many film festivals and head of Initiative Film, a France-based consulting company for developing film projects, talks about her job in Torino: how it started, the actual challenges and the potential developments.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Michal Duris, director of the film Warm Comedy About Depression, Madness and Unfulfilled Dreams.

An interview with director Michal Duris, from Slovakia, who was selected to be part of Future Frames at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. European Film Promotion (EFP) presents ten outstanding young directors from Europe with their latest work at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival every year. Duris’ film is called Warm Comedy About Depression, Madness and Unfulfilled Dreams.

Warm Comedy About Depression, Madness and Unfulfilled Dreams:  States of depression or mild insanity shouldn’t immediately be viewed as something negative. Talented director Michal Duris portrays a family whose members have known each other for so long that it’s difficult to differentiate between love and cabin fever. Everyone will experience a crisis at some point in their lives, but it’s important to talk about it. Even if it means potential dialogue will be replaced with sticky notes.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Lenka Tyrpáková, programmer of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Lenka Tyrpáková, programmer of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, talks to us about the Baltic poetic documentaries, an arguably little-known film movement of the Baltic regions that the Festival paid tribute to in a special section called “Reflections in Time: Baltic Poetic Documentaries” during its 53rd edition. Tyrpákóva tells us about what it was that makes these films so worthy of being rediscovered and even picks out a few titles from the ones selected to screen in Karlovy Vary that she is particularly fond of. She also mentions Bridges of Time, the documentary about this movement that was screened in the documentary competition of the festival, which inspired the retrospective and that she highlights as a great starting point for anyone interested in finding out more about these films.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Hleb Papou, director of the film The Legionnaire.

An interview with director Hleb Papou, from Belarus and Italy, who was selected to be part of Future Frames at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. European Film Promotion (EFP) presents ten outstanding young directors from Europe with their latest work at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival every year. Papou’s film is called The Legionnaire.

The Legionnaire:  Daniel is an officer in a police special operations unit which has been given the task of clearing out a house full of immigrants. He, himself, is a descendant of African newcomers and the situation is made worse by the fact that his brother and mother live in the house as well. The time has come for him to decide whether to remain loyal to the establishment or to his own roots.

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