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Sebastián Lelio – Gloria Bell

Academy-award winning Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio explains how an English language cover version of his 2013 film Gloria came about with the fabulous Julianne Moore in the title role.

June 5, 2019

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Rebecca Johnson – Honeytrap #LFF

Rebecca Johnson, Writer/Director, Honeytrap Festival section: Dare Layla (Jessica Sula) is 15 and has been living in Trinidad. Returned to her estranged mother in Brixton, she is faced with settling into a new home and a new city with a fresh set of rules and codes. Unsupported by her mother and spitefully rejected by her female peers, she is drawn to the brooding Troy, who marks her as his ‘Trini princess’. …

October 18, 2014

British Film Institute London Film Festival Interview

Andy Seige and Pascal Dawson – Beti And Amare #LFF

Andy Seige, Writer/Director, Pascal Dawson, Producer/Actor, Beti And Amare Festival section: Dare Beti and Amare is an audacious, lower-than-micro-budget feature that blends romance, war, sci-fi and revenge film elements with a glorious level of invention. Set during the 1936 war between Italy and Ethiopia, the film sees Beti, a beautiful young woman, evade Mussolini’s advancing troops by travelling to the home of her elderly uncle, who lives alone in a cabin in the midst of …

October 18, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon – The Farewell Party – LIVE #Venezia71

Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon, writer and directors, The Farewell Party Writer/directors Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon are back to chat to FRED "live" in the studio following the film's premiere and we find out what the audience reaction was to the movie, given it's controversial subject matter. Festival section: VENICE DAYS Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

September 1, 2014

Sarajevo Film Festival Interview

Arevik Avanesyan – Alice and the rabbits #20ThSFF

Arevik Avanesyan, Writer/Director, Alice and the rabbits FRED meets Arevik Avanesyan, one of the writers/directors participants at the Talents Sarajevo PACK AND PITCH PROJECT. Arevik is Armenian and she presented to potential producers her film project ALICE AND THE RABBITS. The film tell the story of Alice, whose mother sells handmade rabbits as a symbol of fertility. Alice is only 17, but to her mother' s dismay it 's her that gets pregnant. Festival …

August 24, 2014

Sarajevo Film Festival Interview

Eleonora Veninova – The House of Three Flags #20ThSFF

Eleonora Veninova, Writer, The House of Three Flags FRED meets Eleonora Veninova, one of the writers participants at the Talents Sarajevo PACK AND PITCH PROJECT. Eleonora is from Macedonia but she got the idea of the film project THE HOUSE OF THREE FLAGS during her MA studies in California. The film will tell the story of an American family waking up in Yugoslavia in 1991 to find their house divided by three newly …

August 24, 2014

Sarajevo Film Festival Interview

Nikos Kyritsis – “17” #20ThSFF

Nikos Kyritsis, Director/Writer, "17" FRED meets Nikos Kyritsis , one of the directors/writers participants at the Talents Sarajevo PACK AND PITCH PROJECT. Nikos Kyritsis is one of the two Greek directors to be presenting his project "17" to potential producers and co-producers. 17 narrates the story of teenage Zaharias, who, abandoned by his girlfriend, struggles with his feelings for his baby and his best friend who is helping him to raise it. FRED's …

August 24, 2014

Interview

Paul Laverty – Jimmy’s Hall #Cannes2014

Paul Laverty, Writer, Jimmy's Hall. Festival Section: Competition. Writer Paul Laverty has had a lengthy collaboration with veteran director Ken Loach, and this time their Irish drama based on true events, JIMMY’S HALL has been selected for competition at this year’s Cannes film festival. FRED reporter Amanny Mohamed caught up with the writer to talk about what Jimmy Gralton meant to the local community, the kind of research that went …

June 6, 2014