This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
Federico Cecchetti is a 34-year-old filmmaker based in Mexico City. He’s currently living in Paris as one of five residents of the prestigious Cinéfondation residency program, which was designed by the Cannes Film Festival to help promising filmmakers with their first and second feature films.
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Cecchetti’s unique films raise cultural understanding and social awareness by means of interweaving psychology, philosophy and poetry in film.
Federico Cecchetti is a 34-year-old filmmaker based in Mexico City. He’s currently living in Paris as one of five residents of the prestigious Cinéfondation residency program, which was designed by the Cannes Film Festival to help promising filmmakers with their first and second feature films.
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Cecchetti’s unique films raise cultural understanding and social awareness by means of interweaving psychology, philosophy and poetry in film.
- 8/24/2016
- by Franziska Esther Meierhofer
- Indiewire
This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists.
Since its invention, cinema has been used to examine the past. However, few films centered on historical narratives move past dissecting events and into questioning how such events are portrayed and disseminated. But filmmakers continue to innovate with the form and find new ways to push beyond its limitations. Three films screening at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival — Dain Iskandar Said’s “Interchange,” Douglas Gordon’s “I Had Nowhere to Go,” and Anocha Suwichakornpong’s “By the Time It Gets Dark” — challenge the construction of history and provide alternate ways to experience history beyond the hegemonic image.
The follow-up to his magical realist action-drama “Bunohan,...
Since its invention, cinema has been used to examine the past. However, few films centered on historical narratives move past dissecting events and into questioning how such events are portrayed and disseminated. But filmmakers continue to innovate with the form and find new ways to push beyond its limitations. Three films screening at the 69th Locarno International Film Festival — Dain Iskandar Said’s “Interchange,” Douglas Gordon’s “I Had Nowhere to Go,” and Anocha Suwichakornpong’s “By the Time It Gets Dark” — challenge the construction of history and provide alternate ways to experience history beyond the hegemonic image.
The follow-up to his magical realist action-drama “Bunohan,...
- 8/20/2016
- by Kelley Dong
- Indiewire
Watch a movie scored by Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann or John Williams and you instantly recognize the composer’s signature sound.
Having just received the prestigious Vision Award at the Locarno Film Festival, Howard Shore has amassed a body of work that requires him to be mentioned among those fellow composing legends. From the ominous underbelly he gave “Seven,” to the magical rhythms that drive “Hugo,” to the dour tones encapsulating the reporters’ struggle in “Spotlight,” to the music that brought Tolkien’s Middle Earth to life, Shore has been behind some of the very best film scores of the last 40 years.
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Yet what’s remarkable about Shore’s body of work, and what separates him from the other scoring legends, is that there’s nothing instantly recognizable binding together his diverse scores.
Growing up in Toronto, the...
Having just received the prestigious Vision Award at the Locarno Film Festival, Howard Shore has amassed a body of work that requires him to be mentioned among those fellow composing legends. From the ominous underbelly he gave “Seven,” to the magical rhythms that drive “Hugo,” to the dour tones encapsulating the reporters’ struggle in “Spotlight,” to the music that brought Tolkien’s Middle Earth to life, Shore has been behind some of the very best film scores of the last 40 years.
Read More: Legendary Composer Ennio Morricone Is Releasing A Greatest Hits Album
Yet what’s remarkable about Shore’s body of work, and what separates him from the other scoring legends, is that there’s nothing instantly recognizable binding together his diverse scores.
Growing up in Toronto, the...
- 8/19/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
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Leonor Teles won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, but she would never tell you that. Neither would she present herself as a director.
Being the 24-year-old daughter of a gypsy, Teles had already depicted her Romani community in her first short film, but in “Batrachian’s Ballad” she went a step further.
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Leonor Teles won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, but she would never tell you that. Neither would she present herself as a director.
Being the 24-year-old daughter of a gypsy, Teles had already depicted her Romani community in her first short film, but in “Batrachian’s Ballad” she went a step further.
- 8/18/2016
- by Raquel Morais
- Indiewire
Gay-hate crime documentary Killing Off the Beat has launched a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to investigate a dark period in Sydney's history.
The film, written and produced by Serkan Ozturk, will attempt to unravel a part of Sydney.s recent history that saw men fall prey to .gay-hate killings., assaults and bashings at gay beats..
Ozturk said of the deaths were not properly investigated by police at the time and were classified mostly as "suicide" despite links between a large number of the incidents to anti-gay violence.
Spanning a period between the first Mardi Gras in 1978 to the present day, the independent film will focus on a number of key threads to build community and political pressure for a Royal Commission or another independent high-level body to look at historical gay-hate killings.
It will also look at past and current-day cases of alleged police brutality, according to Ozturk.
"We...
The film, written and produced by Serkan Ozturk, will attempt to unravel a part of Sydney.s recent history that saw men fall prey to .gay-hate killings., assaults and bashings at gay beats..
Ozturk said of the deaths were not properly investigated by police at the time and were classified mostly as "suicide" despite links between a large number of the incidents to anti-gay violence.
Spanning a period between the first Mardi Gras in 1978 to the present day, the independent film will focus on a number of key threads to build community and political pressure for a Royal Commission or another independent high-level body to look at historical gay-hate killings.
It will also look at past and current-day cases of alleged police brutality, according to Ozturk.
"We...
- 12/10/2015
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
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