FJ-HRN-2299

Sound Bite – Elizabeth Guider – Thoughts on Vicky Barcelona press conference
Well you know the press conference with Vicky Barcelona is like every press conference at Cannes it’s always wacky and weird. No one ever asks about box office but they do ask up these deep intellectual questions and these very frivolous questions. So the deep intellectual question was so Woody do you, like the characters in that movie have fantasy’s yourself about a menage a trios. Naturally Woody being Woody ah replied that actually in real life it’s way too complicated, way too emotional to hook up with more than one person at a time, so that essentially you know he’s very good at deflecting that kind of question. You know then the most amusing question was from the journalist from Uzbekistan who is convinced that this movie is going to do well in central Asia because all the women involved in all the houses meaning essentially many of them have a lot of wives or a lot of women helping them out in their houses and she thinks this is going to really spark a lot of um interest in her part of the world. She’s asking Woody, do you think you’ll come and make a movie in Russia or central Asia, and Woody who is uh not always perhaps terribly diplomatic said his only experience of Russia was 2 hours at the Leningrad airport and he just couldn’t wait to get out.

Sound Bite: Elizabeth Guider
You know uh there’s a lot of intellectualization at these press conferences where people think oh it must be so complicated to finally come up with an idea and where do you shoot it and whatnot, and you know Woody Allen made it sound like, Okay get the phone call, people in Barcelona say, would you be interested in making a movie here in our city, and he said sure, and he said my family wanted to spend a lovely summer in Barcelona and so guess what we went and everybody was great, the crew was good, the food was great, they had a lot of fun, they did get money and again on the money issue there is a growing sentiment in Europe that American directors are taking advantage of the subsidies and the tax incentives to make their movies in Europe rather than the homegrown people, and there was a bit of a little animosity in Spain about that, but Woody Allen said that himself I don’t really get involved in the financing, I just come and make the movie and he swore that no director or producer in Spain is mad at him.

B-Roll – Italia Party – shots of the fountain and kid playing with boats, shots of buildings lining the streets

B-Roll – Italia Party – shots of a mime and people checking the mime out

B-Roll – Italia Party – people standing around at what I think is the party, guys shooting on the beach, some weirdos in green capes on beach

B-Roll – Italia Party – people sitting around table at what seems like a production meeting, more of people standing around at party

Sound Bite: Alberto Barbara
The city of Torino, the region of ? decided to invest the field of cinema, so they started a film commission 8 years ago which is very effective, uh we have a big film museum in Torino, which is the biggest film museum in the world at the moment so far, and then we have 3 major film festivals in Torino and um actually there are at least 30 percent of the italian film production is shot in Torino now so Torino’s becoming again a very interesting city from the point of view of the film industry so there are studios for production, post production, for cities, they’re building a new business center for production companies who like to shot films in Torino so it’s a nice moment.

Sound Bite: Frederick Mann (Artistic Director of ? Film Festival
The interview mic is not turned on during half of this interview. I suggest not using it.