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7/7 2014 SPECIAL EDITION OF FREE KVIFF’s MAIN MEDIA PARTNER

INSIDE Laughs and mayhem at Midnight Movies English Section, page 2

Today’s Official Selection films English Section, page 3

Greg Shapiro’s emotional ties to his work English Section, page 4

Tomorrow’s program Czech Section, pages 5-8

Photo: Jan Handrejch “Film has become very difficult and TV’s become very exciting,” says Steve Golin. THE ALCHEMY IS ALWAYS TRICKY LOWDOWN

While festivals such as KVIFF do ANONYMOUS CONTENT’S STEVE GOLIN ON STICKING HIS NECK OUT massive good by inspiring struggling filmmakers, artists, writers and such, there are moments when develop- Will Tizard But there haven’t been too many business with the director and the writer, – we’re developing something that I’m real failures in your case, have there? you’re to some degree giving over the cre- working on myself that I’m very excited ments can have quite the opposite Veronika Bednářová The WikiLeaks movie we did was not ative to them and supporting them... about called Berlin Station, which is ba- effect. Thus, it was almost shocking a success. It was very disappointing – we You’ve said a good script attracts sically about the US embassy in Berlin. when fest host and moderator Marek Anonymous Content, an elite worked very hard on that. We thought we a good director and a good director at- Inside the embassy is the CIA floor. It’s Eben, a man who invariably wins over Hollywood production and talent man- were making a movie that was about tracts good actors. based on material by Olen Steinhauer, the most jittery guests with his eru- agement company launched in 2000, is something, but for whatever reason the That’s it – it’s really as simple as that. who wrote The Tourist. It’s kind of Le dite charms, felt compelled to ex- well known indeed for its long string of movie didn’t work for the public and But I think it’s a question of talent and Carré meets “The Wire.” Operatives from press a bit of ire while introducing Jiří bold and original successes, from uber- maybe not even for the critics. But you perseverance. I mean, we have a big staff all around the world and it’s very gritty. Menzel’s classic, Closely Watched cool music videos by David Fincher to take chances. Some succeed, some don’t. and armies of people who are constantly On some of your past projects, such Trains at an afternoon screening weird and wonderful feature films such as ...The alchemy of why it works or doesn’t looking for new material through books, as Being John Malkovich, you really Saturday in the Thermal’s Grand Hall. Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and work is always very tricky. magazine articles, documentaries... We stuck your neck out, didn’t you? While introducing the newly re- the recent HBO sensation True Detective, But Anonymous Content seems like have a lot of development in our compa- That was me. It was very difficult. stored digital print, on which KVIFF now headed into its second season. the epitome of filmmakers who are ny. About 25 of the 90 people in our com- Nobody wanted it. But I believed in and the České Bijáky Foundation col- Company co-founder and producer Steve finding their voice... pany are really focused on finding mate- Spike. He was very passionate. The sec- laborated this year, Eben said he had Golin recounts the many ups and downs Maybe. But I think that’s giving us too rial and making films and television. The ond half of the movie was completely dif- recently learned that students at of backing projects no one else will touch. much credit. We’re in business to make film business has become very difficult ferent from the movie we made. We a school in Nymburk, where the sto- movies, so we’re constantly looking for and TV’s become very exciting – all these worked on it for a couple of years. Then ry is set, rejected Bohumil Hrabal as You announced over a year ago that stories that are out there. It’s not my voice. new outlets. It’s a very competitive land- we had to give it to John to do the movie. a proposed school name. That show- you were just signing a writer you were I’m not creating the story. scape, but it’s fun. It’s similar to how we Eventually he agreed. Nobody wanted to ing of disinterest was so dishearten- excited to have on a project called True You’re finding the people who tell the used to do independent features. We don’t make it. When we were done with it, we ing, he said, that it made him wonder Detective, and your excitement seems to story... develop it with HBO; we develop our- had this screening and nobody came. if the iPhone generation was becom- have been spread, leading to quite Yeah – and sometimes I’m finding the selves, then package things and try to sell Then it was in Venice. John hadn’t seen ing something of an iDiot generation. a success. story without the people. Like WikiLeaks, them to different broadcasters. the movie. So he watched the film by In more happy news, the founda- Sometimes it does, sometimes it does- we had the book with Dreamworks and How many projects do you have in himself in the theater, called me up after- tion announced that its work on n’t. If it was every time like that, it would we hired a writer and director to do it. It’s development? wards and said, “I hate this fucking Menzel’s film was so rewarding that it be very good. Sadly, there have been about finding stories you’re passionate A lot – maybe 40. Most will never go movie. It’s the worst thing – I’m sorry now plans to get to work restoring some disappointing ones as well. But you about, whether they’re your own voice or anyplace. But maybe of the 40, five or six I did it. If I had the money, I would buy the director’s 1980 comedy Cutting it have to keep trying. someone else’s voice. When you go into will go forward. We’ve a few big projects the movie back and burn it.” z Short. z SEE YOU THERE EXPLAINER

DIRECTOR, JITKA RUDOLFOVÁ DELIGHT YES, THE BEER REALLY IS THAT GOOD... Besides great movies, many visitors become a rarity in other brewing coun- I would like to see Alain Resnais’s Life Life of Riley screens July 9 (8pm, to KVIFF relish the chance to sample tries,” he adds. “It’s how malt was made of Riley because I love his films, espe- Drahomíra). The Wonders screens to- Bohemian beer, revered the world over. for centuries, and they still make malt cially My American Uncle and day (2pm, Thermal Grand Hall), July By common consent, the local bever- that way here today.” Providence. Those films influenced me 10 (1pm, Espace Dorleans), and July ages rank among the best around, as a Bohemian know-how also really in a certain way at one point as regards 12 (9:30am, Small Hall). Rudolfová’s lot of thirsty festgoers will tell you. So makes Czech “Pilsner-style” lagers the film language, handling of the sub- Delight also screens today at 1:30pm what makes Czech beer so good? stand out, particularly the use of a so- ject, and the use of absurd techniques and in the Lázně III Cinema. z According to Evan Rail, author of Why called decoction mash. “The brewer situations. Beer Matters and other books on the separates part of the mash of grain and Also, I would like to see The Wonders, subject, it all comes down to ingredi- water, brings it to a boil in a separate which was awarded with the Grand Prix ents and technique. kettle, then adds it back, which raises at Cannes. I chose it after reading the “The brewing water, especially, is ex- the original mash to a very specific, synopsis in the catalog. I was very inter- tremely soft in the Czech Republic, far slightly higher temperature,” Rail says. ested by its theme – a father trying to softer than the water almost anywhere “This is a complicated, time-consum- keep his daughter away from society. else,” he says. “That’s perfect for the ing process dating back to the 19th I sometimes have a feeling that today’s pale lager or Pilsner style of beer prices at markets in Germany in the century, if not earlier, and most Czech society is so crazy that it’s heading for brewed here. The Czechs also have 12th century and still command a pre- breweries still do this two or three a fall, so I would like to see whether that some of the greatest ‘noble’ aroma mium today.” times for each batch of beer.” is somehow contained in the film, too. hops, often known by their German Another vital ingredient is old-school Elsewhere, such techniques are rarely But I was told it wasn’t depressing or name, Saaz. Hops from the Czech lands floor-malted barley, Rail says. “This is seen, which is why Czech beer tastes anything. (COC/PH) were recorded as receiving the highest still commonly used here, though it has so special. (COC) strana 2 / page 2 FESTIVAL DAILY Monday, July 7, 2014

MIDNIGHT LAUGHS AND MAYHEM MY KV Doris Pack, MEP Matthew Theisen Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education Coilin O’Connor Regular festgoers have come to expect a healthy dollop of hilarious carnage from KVIFF’s Midnight Screenings and this year’s edition is unlikely to disappoint. Schlock connoisseurs will be licking their chops at this year’s delightfully grisly line- up, which includes one of the all-time clas- sics of the genre, two martial arts bloodbaths, and a mockumentary charting the everyday life of modern-day vampires. As usual, the films selected are often strange, quirky, and breathe new life into sometimes jaded motifs. Photo: Milan Malíček “We have always looked for genre films You’re here to announce the young people working in the cre- being attacked by subversive and very so- LUX prize short list – what’s ative field who want to do some- phisticated irony,” says KVIFF’s Artistic the prize for? thing new. So that was interest- Director Karel Och. “Notable audience dar- The incentive is that European ing for the audience, but there lings from past years include Black Sheep, films should be distributed and were also people who asked us Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, Black Dynamite, seen all over Europe and else- questions about copyright as this Dead Snow and Cockneys vs. Zombies, to Photo: KVIFF where, but it rarely happens be- issue is a very sensitive one name a few.” The Raid 2 was actually written before its hugely successful predecessor. cause we have 24 official [EU] which is not yet solved... Trying Along with fresh takes on old formulas, tongues, and the films are all in to make a common legislature for there’s also an old favorite that became the previous one ends. After vanquishing his Just when you thought the recent craze for different languages. So we want- it is like Mission: Impossible. template for countless rehashes. Forty years gangster foes, elite police commando Rama vampire flicks was getting a bit tired, ed to give these European stories We’re still working on this, and after it set a new standard for slasher movies (Iko Uwais) barely gets time to catch his Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) in films to all EU citizens. That’s must have a common approach and had petrified audiences fleeing theaters breath before he has to do it all over again and and Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs. Shark) the idea behind the three films because the industry needs it... in droves, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is this time the bad guys are just as mean and shake things up with What We Do in the chosen by a jury (see p. 7, pro- I hope that we will manage it still as terrifying now as it was in the 1970s. twice as hard. What follows is a pulsating mix Shadows – a hilarious mockumentary fol- gram section), given to the par- within the next few years because There’s a reason why Tobe Hooper’s mas- of martial arts combat, special effects, and an lowing the lives of three bloodsuckers who liamentarians to choose one as it has to be done... terpiece remains #1 on dozens of best-of intense car chase. Written before the first in- often seem to behave more like sophomore a winner, but the three shortlist- You’ve been here before, lists and its welcome inclusion in the mid- stalment, The Raid 2 was originally shelved slackers than bloodthirsty ghouls. ed films are subtitled in the 24 of- right? night sidebar gives us all a chance to be because it required a big budget, but the suc- Like all good midnight movies, however, ficial [EU] languages and the It’s my second time to KVIFF, scared witless once more. cess of the original helped ensure enough re- there are still plenty of frights amid all the winner will get a format for blind and I like it very much. I know Andreas Prochaska’s The Dark Valley sources for an elaborate sequel, which in- gags and over-the-top violence. Michigan di- people. We want to spread good a lot of film festivals, but I think (Das finstere Tal) revives an old Western sto- cludes an epic kitchen battle that took 6 rector David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, European films that otherwise this one has something special. ryline in an Austrian setting. In the Tyrol re- weeks to design, 10 days to film, and 196 which completes the line-up, will send plen- have no chance of succeeding be- I’ve never seen so many young gion in the 19th century, an American shots before being perfected. ty of shivers down your spine. Set in Detroit, cause of the language barrier. people in any of the other film stranger rides into a small village and it’s not The Raid 2 vies for the “honor” of being it charts the plight of 19-year-old Jay (Maika How did your Creative festivals. It’s not so commercial- long before a wave of mayhem is unleashed. the most violent film of the festival with Monroe, The Bling Ring), who begins to Europe talk go today? ized, not only for the upper class, The ensuing sequences of brutal violence Japanese director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t have the ominous feeling that she’s being fol- One thing we discussed was you know? And I like KV as and chaos ensure a feast of graphic visuals You Play in Hell?, which is awash with lowed shortly after a sexual encounter. that, from 2015 on, we have a city. It is part of our common as the pristine frosty landscape slowly be- Tarantino-esque rivers of blood. Despite the Before long she finds herself frantically flee- a loan guarantee created with the history, German, Czech, Russian comes splattered with blood. slaughter, it’s a mostly good-humored, slap- ing across the state in the hope of outrunning new EU budget. Young creators – everything you can see here. Also playing late is The Raid 2: Berandal. stick affair and also has an original framing her mysterious pursuer... The film arrives at who want to create their own cul- I like it and I even brought my Gareth Evans’ follow-up to the hugely popu- device involving a filmmaker shooting KVIFF fresh from bagging a big US distri- tural business very rarely get family here last year. Not to the lar Indonesian action flick The Raid: a showdown between two rival groups of vi- bution deal with Radius after its screening at bank financing today. I think this festival, though, because there Redemption begins only two hours after the cious yakuza gangsters. Cannes Critics’ Week. z is something very important for are too many people. (COC) FACES CRITIC’S CHOICE Nick Holdsworth, WRITER, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Keep a watchful eye out for di- rector Asia Argento here to pres- ent her film Misunderstood. Argento has appeared in over 60 Debra Granik’s gritty, realistic in- WINTER’S BONE films of various genres and has die US drama launched the career Director: Debra Granik directed several others. She’s of Jennifer Lawrence, who was joined by another Italian director, nominated for a Best Actress USA, 2010, 100 min Uberto Pasolini (Still Life), pre- Oscar for her turn as a young July 7, 11:30 am, Thermal Grand Hall senting in the Another View side- teenager saddled with looking af- bar. ter two younger siblings and a Also arriving for Another View mentally ill mother while desper- Winter’s Bone reflects the range Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless are directors Mina Đukić (The ately trying to locate her missing and diversity of Anonymous Mind and the hugely successful Disobedient), Jake Hoffman father before they are all evicted. Content’s output, which includes True Detective TV series. (along with starring actor Benedict Samuel) for a world Israeli, Berlin-based director Noaz WHITE SHADOW premiere of asthma, and Asia Argento Uberto Pasolini Deshe’s debut feature, which also Bulgarian director Maya Vitkova Director: Noaz Deshe screened at Venice and Sundance, with her feature debut of Viktoria. Italy, Germany, Tanzania, offers a fascinating, albeit harrow- Another bringing his first feature 2013, 115 min ing, glimpse of the interior world is director and star of the film The of Africans who see albino chil- July 7, 6:30pm, Thermal Small Hall Mafia Kills Only in Summer, dren as spirits from another world. Pierfrancesco Diliberto . Sadly, this puts them in mortal dan- qualities. Non-professional actor struggling to elude ruthless hunters Sara Colangelo, writer and di- ger because their flesh is prized by Hamisi Bazili puts in a terrific per- after some easy money selling his rector of the heavy drama Little witch doctors for its “magical” formance as the young protagonist organs and limbs. Accidents will be in town for an international premiere in the Forum of Independents section. Described by one critic as a CATCH ME DADDY Lookout for Substance director “British Winter’s Bone,” director Sebastian Mez who will be Daniel Wolfe’s debut (co-scripted Director: Daniel Wolfe showing his film in the Imagina with brother Matthew) is an effort- UK, 2014, 111 min section, and documentarian lessly naturalistic rendering of a July 7, 9:30pm, Thermal Small Hall Martin Dušek who will present Jake Hoffman Sebastian Mez doomed attempt by a British-Asian the world premiere of his Into the girl to escape her overly protective Clouds We Gaze. family. Inspired by so-called “hon- known sub-cultural issue in from Sameena Jabeen Ahmed as Try and spot Mania Akbari or killings” among British Asian Britain’s modern multi-racial soci- the rebellious pink-haired teenager and Mark Cousins. The Muslim families, Catch Me Daddy ety. There’s another impressive who flees from her oppressive Iranian–Irish duo present reflects what is perhaps a little non-professional performance here British-Pakistani father. a unique film, Life May Be, for an international premiere in which they co-direct and co-star. Signe Baumane’s US-Latvian ani- ROCKS IN MY POCKETS Bringing the existential film mated story of a woman’s brave Kebab & Horoscope, Polish di- journey to her Baltic homeland to Director: Signe Baumane rector Grzegorz Jaroszuk ar- discover a deeply hidden family USA, Latvia, 2014, 88 min rives today for the East of the health secret is a Karlovy Vary rar- July 7, 8pm, Thermal Grand Hall West section, and also Belgrade ity: it’s only the second ever ani- native Darko Lungulov mated film in the main competition (Monument to Michael Jackson) program. That much alone makes more to savor including the depic- well as the handling of mental ill- both with world premieres. it worth seeing this intriguing, gut- tion of life in Latvia under the ness in a sensitive but often hu- (MT) Mania Akbari Mark Cousins sy movie, but there’s also plenty German and Soviet occupations as morous manner. z

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OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION LA TIRISIA — THE EVERLASTING ROCKS IN MY POCKETS – ANIMATION SORROW OF LOSS AND ABANDONMENT TAKES A BOW IN MAIN COMPETITION

Matthew Theisen Matthew Theisen Jorge Pérez Solano’s La tirisia Rocks in My Pockets is the de- (Perpetual Sadness) magnifies the but feature of Signe Baumane, lives of a handful of Mexico’s a Latvian-born, independent film Mixteca residents, who are specks animator who now resides in New among the vastness of the dusty- York. Her 15 previous animated brown hills. Cheba and Serafina, shorts have screened in over 200 two of the region’s women, must festivals. She is best known for distance themselves from their her controversial series Teat Beat children to avoid losing their men: of Sex (2008), which looks at sex something that makes them sick “exclusively from a woman’s with “tirisia,” an everlasting sor- point of view.” row. A native of the region himself, Using a combination of papier- Solano has been described as hav- mâché, stop motion, and classi- Photo: KVIFF ing a “distinctly Mixteca take on Photo: KVIFF cally hand-drawn techniques, the human condition.” His first All Solano’s features to date have been set in Mexico’s Mixteca region. Baumane capitalizes on the pow- Rocks in My Pockets creates a unique 3D world for 2D characters to explore. full-length film, Spiral (Espiral) ex- er of animation to convey abstract amined themes subsequently de- they have no one to listen to them, of the drama density experienced and intangible thoughts, difficult ly’s hidden lives, she forms a hy- what it really feels like to be alive veloped in La tirisia. and are tired of asking. by the main characters. to express in traditional filmmak- pothesis that depression may be and go to a dentist, or have sex, or Both of your features are set It was a very difficult challenge, Both of your films examine ing, and has presented unique, vi- passed on through genetics, which be depressed.” Baumane hopes in your home state... and I faced it thinking that cinema difficulties with families – what’s sually intriguing images. Baumane finds interesting and that audiences will find the film Mixteca is a region with a glori- is primarily image. your inspiration? She describes Rocks in My wonders if there’s an evolutionary entertaining, but she also wants to ous past that has no hope of recov- La tirisia shows a sickness I grew up hearing family stories Pockets as “a funny film about de- advantage gained through person- start a conversation on depression ering, it’s full of celebrations and hundreds of women experience that seemed absurd. As an adult pression…Maybe it’s not an out- al suffering. and bring people together, saying traditions that hide the misery and by focusing on a few, but you al- I was sure that such situations were right comedy, but it’s full of irony The intimate film, also narrated the process has made her feel con- helplessness in which the popula- so touch on other subjects: poli- some kind of “family normality,” and uses funny images to talk by Baumane, explores the human nected to the millions of others tion of the area live; for me, show- tics, homosexuality, religion... the facts contradicted what they about serious matters.” Baumane mind by focusing on those closest who share similar experiences. ing how we, the Mixtecos, really La tirisia is a story of outcasts. had taught me in school, where the seeks answers to her never-dis- to her. Depression is a sensitive Although Rocks in My Pockets are when there is no celebration is It summarizes the abandonment teachers said that “the family is the cussed family secrets, saying her subject but Baumane’s not afraid is bound to garner a lot of atten- what makes me want to tell stories of the spirit. The population is basis of the society.” Learning investigation is “an old-fashioned to show her innermost thoughts. tion at KVIFF as one of the few from this region. abandoned by the representatives from that, nowadays I am certain detective story… Me digging into As an artist, she’s intrigued by the animated features to appear in the La tirisia’s storytelling favors of the three major institutions (po- that we live in a wrong way. I think family history, searching for clues, interaction of the inwardly per- main competition, it should also visuals over dialogue. How diffi- litical, military and religious) in the family model must change. figuring things out.” sonal with the outwardly social. attract notice for its comedic, in- cult was it to tell a story without the same way that mothers leave I hope, in the future, I will be able Based on the the experiences of “We all have deeply personal depth look at depression and the relying on conversation? their children to have a life part- to write a story where I could ex- five women in Baumane’s family experiences that we don't discuss, way it affects people’s lives. When I started to write the ner. Both kinds of neglect are plore a different way of relating. who have struggled with depres- but we feel them, and when we script, to tell a story with little di- killing communities and families. sion and mental illness, including externalize them, they become re- Rocks in My Pockets screens to- alogue was one of my main chal- Homosexuality is becoming more La tirisia screens today at 5pm in herself, the film charts the despair ally removed from the original in- day at 8pm in the Thermal Grand lenges; and I did it because of the accepted in the Mexican province the Thermal Grand Hall, tomorrow at of successive generations, starting ner experience. I want to bridge Hall, tomorrow at 1pm in the Pupp, nature of the characters, people and to have a gay character in the 10am in the Pupp, and on July 10 at with her grandmother in 1920s the gap between the internal and and on July 10 at 11:30am in the who have chosen silence because story permits me to release some 9am in the Drahomíra. z Latvia. By investigating her fami- external; I want to communicate Drahomíra. z

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Kristýna Pleskotová when I’m on set, waking up at five, I want to be in my office put- Oscar-winning producer Greg ting together the next movie. The Shapiro of Kingsgate Films, re- best is being able to do both. ceived an Academy Award for Some days, it can be a really Best Picture for Kathryn tough job. But then again, some Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker. With days I’m sitting on set, I’ve got Ridley Scott, he’s now producing a cappuccino in my hand, and Child 44, a Stalin-era thriller things are exploding, you know? filmed in the Czech Republic. He And it’s the coolest thing ever. was also on this year’s And then it doesn’t seem so Conversation with Hollywood tough. panel, popular with international In the US style of production, filmmakers planning US projects you are really with a production or looking to work with overseas from the beginning, in the de- stars, directors, producers, and velopment phase. In Europe, for distributors. example, I think this is not even taught in film school – there are You quit university to become directors, screenwriters and actor Nick Nolte’s assistant – producers, and they don’t even that’s how you got your start – talk to each other. [Now] they and you’re working with him are pushing young producers to again? choose projects close to their I worked with Nick Nolte for hearts and be part of the devel- years and we have stayed close. opment from the start. I’m working on a little movie, sent I don’t understand another way. him a script and he loved it, so I can’t imagine not doing it that he’s playing a small part in it. But way. One of the most fun ele- I will work with him as long as ments of making movies is read- I can. He’s like a father to me. I’ve ing a book and thinking, “That known him for 20 years. He real- would make a great movie. Okay ly formed my world view, not just – that’s a challenge. Now how do in the business but in general. He I get this done?” Or reading an ar-

was a very important influence in Photo: Milan Malíček ticle about something happening my life. Producer Greg Shapiro says producing is “the coolest thing ever.” in the world that’s really topical And will you work with and important and thinking, “I Kathryn Bigelow again? that she can create what she wants the best or the worst feeling to see Absolutely. I’m the kind of pro- rector. Sometimes I’ll sit behind would like to tell this story.” And Absolutely. We have a number to create. I find that really excit- the director realize something to- ducer who goes to the set every the monitor with and confer on then in collaboration you meet of projects we’re working on right ing and rewarding. The opposite tally different than you imagined. day, is there first thing in the every single take; others say, a great writer, get to talking, and now. She has been another defin- of that is that you’ve got a million Usually better, because I work morning and until the end of the “You’re free to sit here, but I don’t they start throwing ideas back at ing influence on my career in running around, and these big sets with very good directors, who night. Money is a part of it, as is need you.” And then you sit back you, and that encourages you terms of how I like to approach and assistants, and caterers and come up with something live, sourcing the material and attach- and watch them do their thing. more – “That’s a great idea, but movies, not just creatively and trailers. I think that Kathryn real- original, and fresh. Every once in ing all the elements. But once Which part of filmmaking do what if we thought about it this narratively, but emotionally and ly tapped into an artistic vein with a while, they come up with some- everything is together the produc- you enjoy least and most? way.” To me, that’s the most ex- practically how she likes to build The Hurt Locker that she has con- thing awful, when everyone else er is there – I don’t want to say The editing room – I go there, citing part. But every movie takes movies. I learned a lot from her on tinued, and I just think it’s a great had a perfect impression in our “overseeing” everything... But the but I don’t enjoy it. You sit in on a different form. Sometimes The Hurt Locker. She keeps things way of making movies. heads what the movie should be producer has a fiduciary role to a dark room and watch things a writer is alone in a room and very simple, very streamlined. When you read a script and like. make sure all the money is taken over and over. When I’m devel- comes up with a great script, and She doesn’t want all the accou- imagine the film a certain way, A producer must be emotion- care of. Also to support the direc- oping a movie, working on then it gets sent to me, and trement of big filmmaking. She and the director does it differ- ally tied to the work, or you tor and make sure everybody has a script, and trying to raise mon- I think, “Okay. This is perfect. wants the people who need to be ently, how do you feel? couldn’t find the necessary en- emotionally and creatively what ey, I just want to be on set. That’s Now what do I do with it?” That on set and minimal interference so Fantastic! Actually, it’s either ergy to raise the money... they need. It depends on the di- the part I love the most. And does happen. z ON THE TOWN EVENTS

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1/ Actor Richard Więckiewicz (left), who played the title role in the Lech Wałęsa biopic with the man himself

2/ Anxious crowds at the Josef Váňa Festival Cup Race

3/ Franco Nero arrives, greeted by Veronika Gočová (KVIFF international guest relations, center) and KVIFF atistic consultant Eva Zaoralová Photo: Jan Handrejch Photo: KVIFF Photo: Milan Malíček

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