E24 • Transforming Adversity into Powerful Storytelling • SCANDAR COPTI, Oscar-nominated dir. of ‘Happy Holidays’, Best Screenplay Winner at the Venice Int. Film Festival + TIFF
10/01/24 • 33 min
In this conversation, Oscar-nominated Scandar Copti discusses his latest film 'Happy Holidays', which just won the Orizontti Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. His past inspiration includes Alexander Nanau’s 2014 Docu-drama ‘Toto and His Sisters’ and Brazilian doc ‘Bus 174’.
Scandar shares the creative process behind his film and the unique approach he takes in filmmaking, such as casting non-professional actors, and filming chronologically, which allows actors to experience deeper emotions as their characters would.
Scandar emphasizes the need to understand the human experience in storytelling, the value in embracing imperfections, and how the normalization of suffering is a central theme in his work.
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In this conversation, Oscar-nominated Scandar Copti discusses his latest film 'Happy Holidays', which just won the Orizontti Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival. His past inspiration includes Alexander Nanau’s 2014 Docu-drama ‘Toto and His Sisters’ and Brazilian doc ‘Bus 174’.
Scandar shares the creative process behind his film and the unique approach he takes in filmmaking, such as casting non-professional actors, and filming chronologically, which allows actors to experience deeper emotions as their characters would.
Scandar emphasizes the need to understand the human experience in storytelling, the value in embracing imperfections, and how the normalization of suffering is a central theme in his work.
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Past Present Feature with Marcus Mizelle - E24 • Transforming Adversity into Powerful Storytelling • SCANDAR COPTI, Oscar-nominated dir. of ‘Happy Holidays’, Best Screenplay Winner at the Venice Int. Film Festival + TIFF
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Marcus Mizelle (00:02)
Welcome to the Past Present Feature podcast.
Marcus Mizelle (00:19)
In this conversation, Skandar Kokhty discusses his latest film Happy Holidays.
which just won the Horizonte Award for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film His past inspiration includes Alexander Nenal's 2014 docudrama, Toto and His
Skandar shares the creative process behind his film and the unique approach he takes in such as casting non-professional actors and filming which allows these act
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