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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Pamela Hutchinson, programmer of In the Eyes of a Silent Star: The Films of Asta Nielsen. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture A conversation with Pamela Hutchinson, programmer of a retrospective on Danish silent film star Asta Nielsen, which will take place at BFI Southbank on February 3-March 15, 2022. The retrospective will take place theatricall and is titled In the Eyes of a Silent Star: The Films of Asta Nielsen. In this conversation, Hutchinson shares more info about Nielsen and the films that will be screened as part of this retrospective, and shares her thoughts on silent films in a contemporary world. In the Eyes of a Silent Star – The Films of Asta Nielsen: A retrospective celebrating the vibrant career of Danish star of silent cinema Asta Nielsen, a performer with boundless range, unique sensitivity and unforgettably hypnotic eyes. Taking place at BFI Southbank from 3 February – 15 March, the season is programmed by film historian and writer Pamela Hutchinson and will showcase Nielsen’s incredible career, from early work such as her debut in the erotic melodrama The Abyss (Urban Gad, 1911), to her androgynous portrayal of the Danish prince in Hamlet (Svend Gade, 1921), through to her final dramatic film role, and first talkie, Impossible Love (Erich Waschneck, 1932). The season will launch on 3 February with a talk – The abc of Asta Nielsen – in which season curator Pamela Hutchinson will present an illustrated lecture on Nielsen’s life and incredible career, before she is joined by a panel of experts including the BFI’s curator of silent film, Bryony Dixon, to examine Nielsen’s performance, stardom and significance in depth. The post Pamela Hutchinson – In the Eyes of a Silent Star: The Films of Asta Nielsen appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Pamela Hutchinson – In the Eyes of a Silent Star: The Films of Asta Nielsen was first posted on January 27, 2022 at 5:53 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Rocío Bernabé Caro, Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany) and tenured lecturer at the SDI University of Applied Languages. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture From easy-to-read as an enabler of multimode access services to the new technological tools developed to provide inclusive and personalised experiences, passing through the many European projects focussing on media accessibility as well as the evolving role of users. Rocío Bernabé Caro tells us more about the challenges but also opportunities of the media accessibility landscape, including the “new” skills that professionals now need to possess to cater for innovative hybrid contexts in audiovisual media. Rocío Bernabé Caro has worked as a specialised staff translator for almost twenty years and over ten years as a lecturer at the university. Her interest on accessibility and technology motivated her to pursue a MA degree in Accessible Technologies, where she dedicated her thesis to studying the User Centred Design approach of Easy-to-Read digital projects. She is now deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany) and tenured lecturer at the SDI University of Applied Languages. As former Head of Quality Management and of the Lecturer Training Program at SDI, she implemented a Learner Centred Quality Management System (LQW) as well as a training program for lecturers. Her publications are here. To discover more about accessibility, click here. The post Accessible Cinema – Rocío Bernabé Caro appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Accessible Cinema – Rocío Bernabé Caro was first posted on November 12, 2021 at 3:41 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Listen to Francesca Raffi‘s workshop on Audiovisual Translation – second round from Venice International Film Festival 2021. To listen to the podcast, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture Francesca Raffi, Senior Researcher of English Translation at the University of Macerata and professional translator, hosts a training course on Audiovisual Translation, as part of Giornate degli Autori 2021 programme. This workshop on Audiovisual Translation – second round is fostered by SubTi Ltd. The post Workshop on Audiovisual Translation – second round #Venezia78 appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Workshop on Audiovisual Translation – second round #Venezia78 was first posted on September 10, 2021 at 8:50 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Listen to Annalisa Sandrelli’s workshop on Audiovisual Translation – first round from Venice International Film Festival 2021. To listen to the podcast, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture Annalisa Sandrelli hosts a training course on Audiovisual Translation, as part of Giornate degli Autori 2021 programme. Annalisa Sandrelli, lecturer in Interpreting and respeaking, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma-UNINT, professional film translator and conference interpreter, with specialisations in cinema and audiovisual translation. This workshop on Audiovisual Translation – first round is fostered by SubTi Ltd. The post Workshop on Audiovisual Translation – first round #Venezia78 appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Workshop on Audiovisual Translation – first round #Venezia78 was first posted on September 3, 2021 at 8:23 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jay Weissberg, artistic director of the Silent Film Festival. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture A conversation about this year’s Giornate del Cinema Muto, a.k.a. the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, with its artistic director, Jay Weissberg. The most important annual showcase of early silent cinema return to Pordenone, Italy, this year as an in-person event for its landmark 40th anniversary edition. Weissberg shares with us some of the major features of its program, including a focus on women in film, a rare retrospective on Korean silent cinema and its opening and closing gala screenings of Ernst Lubitsch and Alexandre Volkoff masterworks. We also reflect on the reason behind the Giornate del Cinema Muto’s long-standing success over its 40-year history and how it has impacted the way in which film lovers and scholars think about, explore and exhibit early silent cinema. To discover more about the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, click here. The post Jay Weissberg – Giornate del Cinema Muto #GCM40 appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Jay Weissberg – Giornate del Cinema Muto #GCM40 was first posted on August 12, 2021 at 2:07 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stefanie Plappert, curator of the exhibition Catastrophe. What Comes After the End?. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture A conversation with Stefanie Plappert, curator of a new exhibition exploring disaster movies that recently opened at the German Film Museum in Frankfurt. The exhibition is titled “Catastrophe. What Comes After the End? ” It opened on July 14 and will run through January 9, 2022. Aside from focusing on the history of this cinematic subgenre, form earlier examples to present-day blockbusters, disaster movies are explored in part through object and scientific expertise in partnership with the Senckenbert Naturmuseum, which will also present a companion program in their building during the run of the show. The post Stefanie Plappert – Catastrophe. What Comes After the End? appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Stefanie Plappert – Catastrophe. What Comes After the End? was first posted on July 27, 2021 at 9:13 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Rocío Bernabé Caro, Deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany). To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture Respeakers, velotypists, live captioners and real-time subtitlers, speech-to-text reporters and interpreters, and all related professionals are invited to this one-day event on real-time intralingual subtitling. Live Text Access (LTA) is an EU funded project that tackles the current need of an open-source certified training program with harmonised competence-based modules and quantified credits for higher educational (ECTS) and vocational (ECVETS) training.At this last event, LTA partners will report about the final stage of the project and give an overview about the achievements so far. They will present the elaborated materials, and outline the importance of the quality assessment. The LTA certificate will be explained and an overview of the developments in the field will be provided. Furthermore, a live speech-to-text competition will be part of the event. The program also includes speeches that will approach the view of the end-users of speech-to-text-services. And during the networking sessions, participants will have the opportunity to exchange their views and ideas on current developments. A live speech-to-text competition will take place too! To discover more about the project, clik here. Rocío Bernabé Caro: MA in Translation (UGR) and MA in Accessible Technologies (UNIR), deputy Head of the Professional College of Translation and Interpreting of the SDI in Munich (Germany) and tenured lecturer at the SDI University of Applied Languages. She has worked as a specialized staff translator for almost twenty years and has ten years of teaching experience. As former Head of Quality Management and of the Lecturer Training Program at SDI, she implemented a Learner Centred Quality Management System (LQW) as well as a training program for lecturers. Furthermore, she was various years in charge of the didactic support and lecturer’s training of the Moodle-E-Learning-Platform of the SDI München. Her interest on accessibility and technology motivated her to pursue a MA degree in Accessible Technologies, where she dedicated her thesis to studying the User Centred Design approach of Easy-to-Read digital projects. An article on this topic will be published in December in La Revista Española de Discapacidad. Currently, her work is focused on accessibility in the field of translation. She is also a member of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals. The post...

PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman, directors of the film Sembene!. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture A conversation with Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman about the life and legacy of the father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembéne. Together, they directed a 2015 documentary feature called Sembene! and look after the preservation of and accessibility to the works of Sembene via The Sembene Project and Sembene Across Africa. All this we talk about here. Sembene! : is a feature-length HD documentary, tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema,” the self-taught novelist and filmmaker who fought, against enormous odds, a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans. It is told through the experiences of the man who knew him best, colleague and biographer Samba Gadjigo, using rare archival footage and more than 100 hours of exclusive materials. The Sembene Project’s goal is to preserve African cinema and culture, and make it available to Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora. To discover more about the film, click here. The post Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman – Sembene! appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman – Sembene! was first posted on May 28, 2021 at 5:18 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews David Walsh, head of FIAF‘s Training and Outreach. To listen to the interview, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture A conversation with David Walsh, head of FIAF’s Training and Outreach, about this year’s Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School. The program will run digitally on September 20-October 1 and registration will open between June 16-July 7. Aside from speaking about the Summer School, we talk about FIAF’s commitment to trainings in film preservation and the importance of film preservation at large. BAVASS 2021 will be an online event, running for ten days in late September. Based on successful online training models that FIAF has used during the pandemic, and on the successful first edition of this biennal event held in Bloomington, Indiana, in May 2019, this ambitious training school will combine lectures and interactive workshops across a wide range of topics. Participants will also carry out assignments in their own time throughout the two weeks of the school. To find out more about FIAF, click here. The post David Walsh – FIAF appeared first on Fred Education Channel » FRED Education Podcast. David Walsh – FIAF was first posted on May 28, 2021 at 5:02 pm.©2015 "Fred Education Channel". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at radio@fred.fm

PODCAST | Francesca Raffi interviews Pilar Orero, full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Anna Matamala, main researcher of TransMedia Catalonia and Lucinéa Marcelino Villela, Mídia Acessível e Tradução Audiovisual Resarch Group ́s coordinator and main researcher. To listen to this programme, click on the ► icon on the right, just above the picture FRED is pleased to present the new episode of Accessible Cinema, a new periodical programme on media accessibility and inclusion, fostered by Sub-ti Access. This programme aims to inform its listeners and keep you updated on the status of media accessibility. We hope to raise awareness on accessibility in media and live entertainment, which is one of the 8 priority areas of the European Disability Strategy 2010 – 2020. In this new episode, we will know more about digital access and inclusion in the audiovisual field. This month, we also celebrate the 10th anniversary of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which aims to highlight the importance of accessibility by raising awareness and global standards. Pilar Orero will tell us more about the past and the present of media accessibility and of projects focusing on media accessibility. And speaking of projects, we will know more about the RAD and EASIT projects with Anna Matamala. Finally, with Lucinéa Marcelino Villela we will trace the fascinating history of audio description in Brazil, where women play a key role, and we will know more about Brazilian accessibility film festivals. Pilar Orero (PhD, UMIST) is the INDRA-ADDECCO Chair in Accessible Technology and full professor of Audiovisual Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is a world-leading scholar in media accessibility with vast experience in standardisation and policy-making, She is a scientific/organizing committee member of many conferences, including Media4All, ARSAD, and Video Games for All. She has delivered, upon invitation, more than 15 plenary lectures and 30 guest lectures all over the world, including at the 9th United Nations Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York, 2016). Click here to know more about her. Anna Matamala, BA in Translation (UAB) and PhD in Applied Linguistics (UPF), is an Associate Professor at UAB (Barcelona). Currently leading TransMedia Catalonia, she has participated in and led projects on audiovisual translation and media accessibility. She has taken an active role in the organisation of scientific events (M4ALL, ARSAD), and has published in journals such as Meta, Trans...