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Sat Apr 8, 2023
Fake Live – A life in public with its dangers / interview with actress Fernanda Paes Leme and director Alexandre Paes Leme
The series is about Fernanda, an actress and influencer who posts and shares everything on Instagram for her fans and interacts with them. However, she is hacked by a person who takes over her profile and also her life. Fernanda loses control. She no longer has access to her Instagram account and sees dubious videos and live streams on her profile of a woman who looks exactly like herself. This loss of control over her life slowly makes Fernanda go crazy. Even her friends, her manager and her own family think that Fake Fernanda is the real one, but she is completely ignored and ostracized from her own life. Will Fernanda get her own life back?
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Fri Mar 24, 2023
What it's like to be gay in Singapore / Interview with director and writer Leon Cheo of the web series People like us
The second season of the series portrays five Asian gay men and how they handle their sexuality and life in Singapore. People like us deals with various problems such as coming out, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and acceptance, in the hope that the series can help change the hearts and minds of the people and government of Singapore.
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Wed Mar 8, 2023
IXA – first vertical Basque web series format / Interview with the author and director Egoitz Diaz Ibargoitia
IXA is the first Basque web series to be created exclusively vertically, meaning it is meant to be watched on your phone. In order to create a new way of promoting audio-visual consumption in Basque, especially among younger people, the series was recorded entirely in Basque. The series addresses different themes, with each episode always following a common thread – Time. IXA includes six independent episodes which explore the use of time and the way we see it. Each episode tells a story of an individual in an everyday situation, culminating in a dramatic climax. The first season consists of six chapters, each lasting no more than 10 minutes and taking place in different “non-places.”
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Fri Feb 17, 2023
A right wing man on a journey to be purified in the end / interview with Wouter Wirth und Moritz Adlon the directors and writers of MILIZ!
MILIZ! is a comedy about Helmut, who is in a crisis after his wife has kicked him out and he has to move in with his grandmother. After that he decides to start a vigilante against foreigners and get to know Elvis and Tina in this way. But Elvis turns out as a neo-Nazi and Tina as a policewoman who has the mission to spy the group out. Divided by these two sides, Helmut has to ask himself: Do I want to be a Nazi or not?
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