Interview With "Robot Dreams" Director Pablo Berger

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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"Robot Dreams" had its world premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the Special Screenings section, where it received enthusiastic reviews for its seemingly simple but complex telling of a story about connection and friendship between a Dog and a Robot, all without dialogue. Director, writer, and producer Pablo Berger was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about his experience making his first animated film, the challenges of telling the story without dialogue, his thoughts on being nominated for an Oscar, and more. Please be sure to check out the film, which is up for your consideration at this year's Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and will be released in the U.S. by NEON on May 31st. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview,
0:04.4	with the Oscar-nominated director, writer, and producer for Robot Dreams, Pablo, thank you so much for your time.
0:28.0	I love Robot Dreams.
0:29.5	I saw it at TIF.
0:30.9	And so I'm so thrilled for the nomination.
0:35.7	So thank you for taking time with me today.
0:38.3	Great. So you were there, the premiere there, T.
0:41.3	Yes.
0:42.3	Yeah, it was wonderful.
0:43.3	The audience clearly loved it there as well.
0:45.3	And so it's been wonderful to watch it, kind of gaining steam all these months.
0:50.3	It's been amazing.
0:51.3	We all saw the beautiful video of you and your team watching the nominations and celebrating.
0:58.3	It was amazing.
0:59.3	What does this Oscar nomination mean to you?
1:01.8	Well, the thing is that what really means to me is that a wider audience, a global audience, is going to know about robot and dog, and more
1:14.6	people are going to see robot dreams. And honestly, after four films and over 25 years of
1:23.4	career in cinema, this is what really turns me on.
1:31.9	Of course, it's definitely, I'm very excited to go to the Oscars.
1:34.8	And it sounds like big celebration.
1:36.6	It's like, it's not Robert Dreams.
1:41.8	It's my, it's Pablo's dreams, you know, just to be part of it, it sounds like, you know,
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