FilmFestTalkMar 20, 2022
Episode 4: Interview with Darya Bassel, DocuDays UA
FilmFestTalk is back with a special episode on Ukraine. In this episode, you will hear a very short summary of the latest statements from the international film community on the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Then you will listen to our interview with the DocuDays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival’s head of the DOCU/PRO Industry Platform, Festival Programmer Darya Bassel. We are happy to share their perspective and voice with you.
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Recommended films:
- Infinity According to Florian (Oleksiy Radynski, 2022)
- This Rain Will Never Stop (Alina Gorlova, 2020)
Sources of the episode:
Why We Need a Post-Colonial Lens to Look at Ukraine and Russia by Daria Badior: https://hyperallergic.com/716264/why-we-need-a-post-colonial-lens-to-look-at-ukraine-and-russia/
Letter From DocuDays UA Team: https://docudays.ua/eng/2022/news/kino/about-the-outbreak-of-war-against-ukraine-and-the-postponement-of-the-festival/
https://deadline.com/2022/02/ukrainian-film-academy-calls-boycott-russian-cinema-from-festivals-producers-financiers-1234960710/
https://variety.com/2022/film/global/european-film-academy-ukraine-support-1235189185/
https://www.berlinale.de/en/news-topics/news/detail_142408.html
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/statement-from-the-festival-de-cannes-on-the-situation-in-ukraine
Episode 3: Interview with the Radical Film Network Meeting Berlin Team
Welcome to the third episode of the FilmFestTalk!
You will hear Alexandra Weltz-Rombach, Julia Lazarus, Ursula Böckler, and Daniel Mutibwa from Radical Film Network Meeting Berlin Team in this episode. We talked about their upcoming event and the book project Radical Film at the Dawn of a New Society.
Radical Film Network was established in 2013 in the UK, and today it contains more than 200 organizations in 37 countries. The RFN Meeting Berlin is one of the events that come out of this network. The RFN Meeting Berlin will take place between 25th and 28th August in Atelier Gardens Berlin. There will be night lectures, round tables, artist screening tables and more on the topic of radical film and film culture. For details, click the play button and listen! Also, check the links to learn more about the RFN and the RFN Meeting Berlin in particular.
Book recommendation: Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisations and Activists. (Edited by Steve Presence, Mike Wayne and Jack Newsinger. Routledge, 2021)
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RFN: https://radicalfilmnetwork.com/
RFN Berlin: https://radicalfilm.net/
Mailing list of the RFN: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/radicalfilmnetwork
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Episode 2: Interview with Weronika Adamowska, HER Docs Film Festival Warsaw
Welcome to the new episode of FilmFestTalk!
In this episode, you will hear Weronika Adamowska, founder and programer of the HER Docs Film Festival, which is a female documentary film festival located in Warsaw, Poland. HER Docs founded as a foundation in 2019. Since March 2020, they organize the HER Docs Film Festival, which is, as they stated, "is the first documentary film festival in Poland presenting the rich creativity of female filmmakers to the wide audience."
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Episode 1: Interview with Pascale Fakhry, Artistic Director of the Arab Film Festival Berlin
Welcome to the very first episode of the FilmFestTalk!
In this episode, you will hear Pascale Fakhry, the Artistic Director of the Arab Film Festival Berlin (ALFILM). ALFILM is organized by the association makan – Center for Arab Film, Arts and Culture, founded in 2004 to promote and support Arab cinema. ALFILM was launched in 2009, and this year, its 12th edition was organized as a home edition. Now on July 14th and 15th, there will be an open-air edition in Berlin.
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Episode 0: Welcome and hello! #FilmFestTalk
Welcome to FilmFestTalk; this is one of those podcast series that people speak about films and anything film-related. This is Fatma; I am your host; I am a journalist and a researcher, from time to time, a festival worker.
In this podcast series, I’ll be talking about films, filmmakers, festivals, film studies and so on. Not to bore you to death; hopefully, I’ll have guests.
I’ll be open to your suggestions both for the content and the guests all the time. If this sounds cool, stay tuned!
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