Sands Film Festival 2024 Special ft. Joe & Anthony Russo, Debra Zane, Alan Silvestri & Ania Trzebiatowska

The Empire Film Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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The St. Andrews International Film Festival — or Sands, for short — is now in its third year, bringing some amazing films and filmmakers to the beautiful Scottish town of St. Andrews. It's already something of a tradition for the Empire Podcast's Chris Hewitt to pop up there and have a natter with some of those filmmakers, including Joe Russo, who is one of the festival's chief benefactors. This year, Joe brought his brother Anthony with him for a special screening of Welcome To Collinwood and a Q&A with that film's producer, and the brothers' mentor, Steven Soderbergh, and in this podcast, Chris sits down with the Russos to talk about their experiences on that film, the advance of A.I., nearly killing Spider-Man, and much, much more. But that's not all – this is a Sands special, folks, and within you'll also find Chris chatting with top casting director Debra Zane, Sands Festival Director Ania Trzebkiatowska, and Alan Silvestri, the legendary composer of Back To The Future, Predator, Forrest Gump, and Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. And yes, they do talk about Portals. With something for everyone, this is a cracking podcast special for a cracking new festival. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	I'm Peter Franker Pan.
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0:17.4	It feels like her story has been told by others with their own agenda for centuries.
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0:28.8	get your podcasts. Hello, Paul. Hello Pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to an Empire Podcast special and I know I say that quite a lot
0:49.6	but this one is very special folks. A couple weeks ago I had the great pleasure of heading up to St
0:55.9	Andrews, a small town in Scotland perhaps most famous for two things. One, its incredible beach,
1:01.6	West Sands, which is the beach they run on.
1:04.4	In chariots of fire, oh yes.
1:07.2	And 2, perhaps most importantly and most famously, being the home of golf. Yes, Mark Twain's least favorite pastime may not have been
1:16.6	100% invented in St Andrews as open to debate, and a debate that would need more time than I have in this
1:22.4	intro, but this beautiful town is certainly where the game came to prominence and is where you can find the old course up there with Augusta as the world's most famous golf course. Oh and Bambridge golf course, of course.
1:36.5	But I'm not here to bleather on about golf which will please the twains among you, Mark,
1:40.6	Shanaya or otherwise, because St Andrews for the last three years has also been home to a brand new film festival, the International Film Festival of St Andrews, or Sans, to give it its slightly snappier title. It's produced by the
1:55.9	Byer Theatre, which is a lovely theatre in the heart of the town and the University of
1:59.9	St Andrews with the Department of Film Studies as a key partner but one of his chief
2:03.9	backers and benefactors is a man who got turned on to the town when his daughter
2:08.9	Sophia enrolled at that very Department of Film Studies. It is of course Joe Russo one half of the Russo brothers,
2:16.3	you know the guys who directed those films that I like to bang on about on the podcast,
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