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Jakub Felcman – founder – Ostrava Kamera Oko

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews the director of the Ostrava Kamera Oko, Jakub Felcman. This year’s edition of the festival is the 7th in its history.

It hasn’t been easy, and he tells us of the challenges such a festival faced and is consistently facing in its uneasy task of promoting a different kind of cinema in an industrial Czech town. The challenges, however, are constantly overcome, and that is what has ensured the resilience of Ostrava Kamera Oko, which is quite a different type of festival.

As its name implies, it promotes the work of cinematographers, and rather than invite directors to talk about the film, it invites directors of photography to share stories of the works from their point of view. Despite this fact might hint at Ostrava Kamera Oko being niche, nothing could be further from the truth, as its programme offers a variety of titles that have been celebrated throughout the year, and can tend to a wide audience that goes beyond the ones with a particular interest in cinematography.

Jakub also talks to us about some of the activities that take place outside of the film programme, and shares with us a great story of how one of the cinemas in which the festival takes place was made out of a building that was unused and supposed to be demolished.

From 25th September to 1st October, Ostrava will attract the attention of fans of quality cinema. The seventh edition of the International Film Festival Ostrava Kamera Oko (OKO) will offer an eventful film programme including several Czech premieres, interesting guests and an inspirational atmosphere.

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Alexis Krasilovsky – filmmaker – Women Behind the Camera

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Alexis Krasilovsky, whose documentary WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA was screened at the 7th edition of Ostrava Kamera Oko.

While the film was shot in 2007, it is worryingly and undoubtedly relevant to this day. And because it is, the issue of the difficulties being female and working as a cinematographer was also further explored in a book named SHOOTING WOMEN, and the second edition of the book will be released in a month’s time.

Through our discussion about the film WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA, we discuss with the filmmaker the feminist themes and issues dealt within it, and briefly try to understand why even to this day, the film industry is dominated by men – and how absurd this is! But it is a hopeful chat. As Alexis says, things are slowly but surely moving – and adds that this is not only a female issue.

Besides that, we discuss her future project LET THEM EAT CAKE, which, much like “Women Behind the Camera”, it is a global documentary, meaning that it tells stories of people from all over the world, collectively but representing something universal.

For more information, click here to visit the official website of Women Behind the Camera.

For more more information, click here to visit the official website of Let Them Eat Cake.

WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA: This global documentary, based on Alexis Krasilovsky’s book of the same name, explores the lives of camerawomen in Hollywood and Bollywood, Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, the U.S. and other countries in a way never seen before.

American camerawomen include top directors of photography Ellen Kuras, ASC (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Sandi Sissel, ASC (“Salaam Bombay!”) and pioneers like African-American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton—who had to sue the union and television networks to get a job. For the past six years, the filmmakers have followed the lives of over fifty camerawomen, from video journalists risking their lives in war zones, to feature DP’s, shooting buddies-with-guns escaping in slow motion from total destruction on commercial sets.

From secret films by camerawomen of the Taliban beating Afghani women, to historic footage by China’s first camerawomen of Mao’s travels through the Chinese countryside. From the narrative of a Russian filmmaker who filmed the fall of the Soviet Union, whose choice of career is told as a love story, to rural India, where subsistence-level women are taught camerawork as a means of empowerment, to the glowing young Senegalese camerawoman willing to climb onto a man’s shoulders— literally—to get her subject, Professor Krasilovsky shows us a world of beauty, courage and technical skill.

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Kathy Loizou – director – Children’s Film First Conference

On the occasion of the upcoming CHILDREN’S FILM FIRST CONFERENCE taking place in Brussels on the 23rd and 24th of September, Kathy Loizou, director of the Children’s Media Conference, tells FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti about this new Europe-Wide Conference she organized and managed with the CMC and how these two days have been structured and planned.

The Conference will cover many aspects such as the Ways to engage children in film and the Use of digital technology in film literacy. There will be many case studies and practical sessions. Among the programme highlights, a Creative Keynote by Boudewijn koole, director of “kauwboy” who will be talking about the importance of film for children in Europe and engaging children in European Films via film literacy. There will also be a Film Industry Panel on : Access to Children’s film – Current and future distribution models.

The Children’s Media Conference is the UK’s premier gathering for everyone involved in children’s content and distribution. Over 1000 delegates come to the conference every July in Sheffield. In addition to the main summer conference, the CMC organises a number of activities during the year, all for the UK kids’ content industry: UK@Kidscreen delegation, CMC Rights Exchange and Manimation. The CMC is proud to be organising the Children’s Film First Conference.

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Tuva Novotny – actress – A War

Tuva Novotny co-stars in Tobias Lindholm’s latest effort A War as the wife of a soldier fighting in Afghanistan. The actress explained the way she got involved in the project, how the crew shot the film chronologically, the new projects she’s been working on and the possibility of having a try behind the camera

A WAR: Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Pilou Asbaek – actor – A War

Pilou Asbaek speaks in this interview about his involvement once again in a project directed by Tobias Lindholm, someone who he didn’t get along well at the beginning but is like a second marriage to him.

The Danish actor also explained how much he loved to take part in big US productions and the TV show Game of Thrones, although he still praises European creators as the best ones around.

A WAR:Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father.

During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Tobias Lindholm – director – A War

Tobias Lindholm came back to Venice after A Hijacking to present his latest effort, A War, where he works with actor PilouAsbaek once again.

In the interview he speaks about the relationship between the two, explained how he worked with Afghan people and real soldiers to build up a fiction as close to a documentary style as possible and how obsessed he is with what he calls “middle points” leading to “fake endings”.

A WAR: Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father.

During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.

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Alessandro Pecile, Stefano Siega – students – FRED at School

Alessandro Pecile, and Stefano Siega, young students of the project Fred at School, are in Venice to award Andrea Segre and its film Shun Li and the Poet, winner of the first edition of Fred @ School.

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Orson Wong – chief project officer – Macau Films and Television Production and Culture Association

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi meets Orson Wong of the Macau Films and Television Production and Culture Association at the 72nd Venice Film Festival’s Venice Film Market.

As a chief project manager Orson Wong has the pulse of the Macao Film Festival and also of all the other activities that the Association pursues. A new player in the market, and with interesting ideas.

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Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young – actress – Looking for Grace

What an actress can do on screen is a lot of what she is in real life. Radha and Odessa, two actresses of different generations made it to give a shining portrait of their respective femininity and roles in LOOKING FOR GRACE. and listening to their words makes us understand why.

LOOKING FOR GRACE: Grace, 16, runs away from home. Her parents, Dan and Denise, head off on the road to across the Western Australian wheat belt with a retired detective, Norris, to try and get her back. But life unravels faster than they can put it back together. Grace, Dan and Denise learn that life is confusing and arbitrary, but wonderful. Looking For Grace is about how we make sense of the mess of our lives and what it all means. It is a wry drama about lies, secrets, small and large griefs and love.

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Birgit Heidsiek – editor-in-chief – Green Film Shooting

As the Venice FF organised, this year, its very first Green Day, supported by international competition jury president Alfonso Cuarón and his brother Alfredo, Birgit Heidsiek tells us more about sustainability on film sets, about the progress that has been made (Spiderman 2 is a great example of that) and the ways to continue in that direction, cutting costs along the way…

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