FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets versatile and eclectic actress Edwina Findley, intense protagonist of Jake Mahaffy‘s FREE IN DEED, in competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section, in which it was awarded the Best Film Prize.
In the film Edwina plays Melva Neddy, a single mother desperately looking for a cure to her son’s autism in a society in which she’s left with no help from social services or healthcare system. Edwina Findley explains how the film explores the difficulty of judging a woman in her character’ situation and how, even death, can de liberating in a very desperate sense.
FREE IN DEED: Set in the distinctive world of storefront churches, and based on actual events, Free in Deed depicts one man’s attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother brings her young boy to church for healing, this lonely pentecostal minister is forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child… and his own demons as well. The more he prays, the more things seem to spiral out of his control.
At the Rome Film Fest, “I’m Curious Johnny”, director Julien Temple and Johnny Pigozzi talk about fame, friendship, and 50 years of photos turned into one playful, revealing film.
Presented at the 20th Rome Film Fest, “Eddington” is Ari Aster’s boldest experiment yet — a western for the digital age, where the showdown isn’t fought in the desert, but on the screen in our hands.
“The Other Side of Summer”, a conversation with actresses Lucie Fingerhutová and Nikola Kylarová and producer Ondřej Lukeš: "We wanted to tell a story about friendship, sisterhood and finding a good place or a better place".