All articles by Vladan Petkovic – Page 11
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NewsMuezzin world premiere to open Crossing Europe Film Festival
The 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival, held in Linz on April 20-26, will open with the world premiere of Sebastian Brameshuber’s documentary, Muezzin.The documentary focuses on several young muezzins, the people chosen by a mosque to lead the call to prayer, as they prepare for the preliminary rounds of a ...
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USAID invites international film productions to Serbia
A new website to promote Serbia as a location for international co-productions has been launched by Film In Serbia, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) project set up to promote Serbia to the international filmmaking community. Michael Harvey, chief of the USAID mission in Serbia told Screendaily that he ...
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Belgrade Fest hosts fourth co-production market
The 37th Belgrade International Film Festival FEST has opened its fourth East-West co-production market, the B2B Industry Meetings.B2B spotlights countries that are geographically in Europe, but not fully integrated in European film networks and markets, as well as countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage.The co-production market gives ...
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Serbia - Saving grace
"Serbia is currently the most competitive filming location in Europe," says Spanish-born producer Antoni Sole. "Crews are skilled and experienced, with an excellent knowledge of English and are much cheaper than those in Bulgaria or Romania. The facilities are also of high quality."Sole is an experienced producer who has set ...
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Croatian Audio-Visual Center awards $5m across 17 projects
The Croatian Audio-Visual Center has selected 17 feature film projects for financing. In total, 71 film projects were submitted for consideration to the Croatian Audio-Visual Center (HAVC) which is Croatia's official film funding body.The HAVC was established in March this year and under Croatian law is completely independent from government ...
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Belgian trio's Rumba wins in Zagreb
Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy' s Rumba won the main prize and $6,250 (Euros 5,000) at the sixth Zagreb Film Festival, which ran from October 18-25. This is the directing trio's second win at Zagreb after Iceberg in 2005. Special mention went to Mexican Rodrigo Pia's The Desert ...
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USAID helps put Serbia back on map
The news that River Road Entertainment had selected Serbia as the location for shooting Coriolanus, a $10m project to star and be directed by Ralph Fiennes, surprised many in Serbia. While this is perhaps the most tangible indication that Serbia is re-emerging as a cost-effective destination for international production, it ...
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Snow, Rumba and Synecdoche, New York, in Zagreb competition
The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the films in competition for its sixth edition.Entries featured in competition are first or second films by their directors, and fall into three sections: features, documentaries and shorts. The festival runs from October 19-25.Films already receiving attention from the feature competition programme include Charlie ...
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Rodrigo Prieto wins Golden Camera 300 in Macedonia for Lust, Caution
Rodrigo Prieto won the Golden Camera 300, at the 29th International Cinematographers' Film Festival in Macedonia (Sept 27-Oct 4) for his work on Ang Lee's Lust, Caution.Jolanta Dylevska received the Silver Camera 300 for Sergey Dvortsevoy's Tulpan, and the Bronze Camera 300 was awarded to Yuri Klimenko for his work ...
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Slovenia enters Rooster's Breakfast in Oscar race
Marko Nabersnik's love story is submitted by The Slovenian Union of Film Workers to represent Slovenia as best foreign film at the next Academy Awards. Marko Nabersnik's Rooster's Breakfast (Petelinji Zajtrk) is Slovenia's entry for the best foreign language film at the next Academy Awards.Nabersnik's film is a rare domestic ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina submits Snow to Oscars
Aida Begic's Snow has been chosen by the Association of Film Workers of Bosnia and Herzegovina as its submission for the best foreign language film at the 81st Academy Awards. The film has already won this year's Critics' Week prizeat the Cannes Film Festival. Snow is co-produced by Sarajevo's Mamafilm, ...
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No One's Son enters the Oscar race for Croatia
Ostojic's No One's Son has been nominated as Croatia's entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar despite not having an official distributor. Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son (Niciji Sin) has been chosen by the Croatian Association of Film Workers as Croatia's foreign language film candidate for the 2009 Academy ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Serbia adds Markovic's The Tour to the Oscar poll
The Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences has chosen Goran Markovic's The Tour as its submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards.Markovic's film was in competition with 10 other films for the nomination. The shortlisted films were: Berlinale panorama entry Love And Other Crimes (Ljubav I ...
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Fiennes to direct River Road's Coriolanus in Serbia
River Road Entertainment will film a modern-day version of Shakespeare's Coriolanus in Serbia. Ralph Fiennes will direct and play the lead in the film and was part of a USAID group that evaluated Serbia as a location for shooting this film in July.The film is a tragedy based on the ...
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CineLink announces best-pitch awards
CineLink, the industry section of the Sarajevo Film Festival, announced its awards for the best projects pitched in the southeastern Europe co-production market. The EAVE scholarship went to Serkan Cakarer, producer of the Turkish project Broken Mussels, from director Seyeftin Tokmak. Broken Mussels received the ARTE Sarajevo Film Festival award. ...
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Bosnia and Herzegovina - Out of the rubble
Now the most important festival in the Balkans, the Sarajevo Film Festival was launched in 1995 during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It began by screening a selection of films from the Edinburgh and Locarno festivals in Sarajevo's Obala Arts Centre which, perhaps surprisingly given the circumstances, proved very ...
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Sarajevo lines up shorts jury; Kevin Spacey to attend fest
The jury of the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival's short films competition will be comprised of Michael J. Werner, co-chairman of Fortissimo Films; Sejla Kamerlic, artist and filmmaker whose short film What Do I Know had premiere at last year's Venice Corto Cortissimo, and won the best short film award at ...
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Silent Light wins at Motovun
Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light won the Motovun Propeller, the main prize of the 10th Motovun Film Festival, which wrapped Aug 1. The festival favourite and Cannes jury award winner was named Best Film by Slovenian actress Milena Zupancic, British director Pawel Pawlikowski and Pavle Levi, professor of film studies at ...
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No One's Son sweeps Croatian national awards
Arsen Anton Ostojic's No One's Son picked up six of the 16 Golden Arena awards at the 55th Pula Film Festival, including best film, best director and best actor.The crime drama - Ostojic's second feature - about a crippled Croatian soldier in search of his identity also won the Croatian ...