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Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

J-P Valkeapaa / Teppo Manner – They Have Escaped #VeniceDays

J-P Valkeapaa (Director and co-screenwriter), Teppo Manner (Actor), They Have Escape. Festival ection: Venice Days. FRED meets the director and co-screenwriter J-P Valkeapaa and actor Teppo Manner of THEY HAVE ESCAPED (He Ovet Paenneet), presented in the Venice Days section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. They Have Escaped is a Finnish film that plays a lot with the coming of age, young couple getaway movie and mixes it with abrupt nightmarist …

August 31, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon – Mita Tova (The Farewell Party) #VeniceDays

Tal Granit, Directors, Sharon Maymon - Mita Tova (The Farewell Party). Festival Section: Venice Days. THE FARWELL PARTY addresses the controversial issue of euthanasia in a touching, yet funny way. A group of friends at a JErusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend Max. FRED caught up with writer/director duo Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon who talk about the inspiration behind …

August 30, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein – Mita Tova (The Farewell Party) #VeniceDays

Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein, Actors, Mita Tova (The Farewell Party). Festival Section: Venice Days. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, Max. With rumours of the machine beginning to spread, more and more people begin to ask for their help. FRED caught up with the leading actors in the movie to find out what they …

August 30, 2014

Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Joshua Oppenheimer – The Look of Silence #Venezia71

Joshua Oppenheimer, Director, The Look of Silence. Festival Section: Venezia 71. FRED has the pleasure of meeting documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, who presented his latest work THE LOOK OF SILENCE at the 71st Venice Film Festival - his follow up to his rightly celebrated feature The Act of Killing. In The Look of Silence, he once again examines the subject of the Indonesian Communist Purges but this time he focuses more on the …

August 30, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Miranda July – MIU MIU Women’s Tales: Somebody #VeniceDays

Miranda July, Director, MIU MIU Women's Tales: Somebody. Festival Section: Venice Days. Fred speaks with the many-talented enfant terrible Miranda July. Here in Venice with her last short SOMEBODY, part of MIU MIU's women's tales, she gives us a glimpse of how her creative process works, helicopters permitting... Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

August 30, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Kim So Yong – MIU MIU Women’s Tales: Spark and Light #VeniceDays

Kim So Yong, Director, MIU MIU Women's Tales: Spark and Light. Festival Section: Venice Days. Fred wears Prada and meets with Kim So Yong, director of many internationally acclaimed films and now MIU MIU Women's Tales. alumnus with her short film SPARK And Light. Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

August 30, 2014

Giornate degli Autori - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Shawn Christensen, Before I Disappear #Venezia71

Shawn Christensen, director, Before I Disappear Fred meets again with Shawn Christensen, after interviewing him in Tribeca Film Festival 2012 for his short film CURFEW which won the Oscar in 2013. BEFORE I DISAPPEAR is Shawn Christensen's first feature film, which is the feature length version of Curfew. The film tells the story of Richie, a lost soul who has decided to check out from life when his sister calls him …

August 29, 2014

Critics Week - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia Interview

Peyman Moaadi – Melbourne #sicvenezia

Peyman Moaadi, Actor, Melbourne. Festival Section: Venice International Film Critics Week. FRED has the pleasure of meeting actor Peyman Moaadi, who turns in another great performance in MELBOURNE by Nima Javidi. Here, he plays the story of a man who is on the verge of his big move from Iran to Melbourne with his partner when everything comes to an abrupt halt as tragedy envelops the house. Reporter: Matt Micucci.

August 29, 2014