Serbia: From isolation to coproduction
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BA. Predrag BAMBIC
Film & TV Cameraman; Co-Owner of "Montage", Belgrade
| * 1958 Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia | |
| 1977-1981 | Belgrade University - Faculty of Drama Arts / Film & TV camera department |
| 1981-1985 | While Bambic worked for TV Belgrade he produeced over 3000 news reports and documentaries |
| 1986 | He served in the Yugoslav army Marines |
| 1987-1988 | As a freelance cameraman Bambic filmed TV features, documentaries, corporate films, commercials and musical promos |
| 1989-1993 | He worked for the Yugoslav Army s film production company "Zastava film" where he filmed the genesis of the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. Bambic covered all the major events related to the developments of the wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Much of it was screened in the BBC documentary "Death of Yugoslavia" |
| 1992-1994 | Together with with Martin Bell, George Eykyan, Dan Rather, Aernaout van Lynden and others he covered for BBC, CNN, CBS, SKY News and ABC many stories on the war in Bosnia and Croatia |
| 1995-1996 | Bambic worked for Reuters TV agency and covered all the major news stories and events in the South-East Europe - wars in Croatia and Bosnia. He shot many well-known pictures of the wars in the Balkans |
| 1996-2002 | Worked for CNN International on many assignments - reports and documentaries about all, in that period numerous and tumultuous, events in Balkans with correspondents such as: Christiane Amanpour, Nic Robertson, Alessio Vinci, Richard Blystone, Brent Sadler, Jim Clancy, Tom Mintier, Walter Rogers, Jim Bitterman, Peter Arnett, Matthew Chance including exclusive live reporting about democratic revolution on October 5. 2000 |
| since 2002 | Founded film & TV production company "montage". 3 feature films, 2 TV serials, commercials |
Srdjan KOLJEVIC
Director and Screenwriter; Assistant Professor of Screenwriting, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade
| Srdjan Koljevic graduated in screenwriting and playwriting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. He works as a Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at this school today. | |
| He wrote or co-wrote eight feature films, all of them national box office hits and awarded internationally - amongst which the film which he also directed "Red Coloured Grey Truck" (2004; Serbian-German-Slovenian co-production) earned him the widest recognition of international audience, festivals and critics. | |
| The most recent film that he wrote "The Trap" (2007; Serbian-German-Hungarian co-production) premiered at the Berlinale, currently is being screened on numerous international festivals. | |
| He is in currently working on his next film ("The Woman With The Broken Nose"), also a Serbian-German co-production. |
DI Miroljub VUCKOVIC
General Manager, ewCPF - east west Crossings Promotion Fund, Belgrade
| since 1979 | Engaged in various researches and projects of the Yugoslav Film Institute, as retrospective of the Yugoslav films at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Cinematheque Royale in Brussels, Giornate del cinema muto in Pordenone etc. |
| 1993-1995 | engaged by different Russian TV stations (OSTANKINO, the 1st channel of Russian TV, then TV6, NTV and TV "Myr") as advisor and coproducer of TV programmes dedicated to the International Film festivals - Cannes, Venice, London, Brussels, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, etc. |
| 1995-1998 | Film critic and author, monthly TV program "Cinema Art" |
| 1995-2005 | General Manager of the Institut za film (Film Institute) |
| 1997-2011 | Artistic Director of Belgrade International Film Festival |
| 2001-2005 | Chairman of South-East European Cinema Network |
| since 2006 | Founder and Director of east west Crossings Promotion Fund |
| since 2007 | Acting Director of Film Center Serbia |
| Promoter of foreign films, Yugoslavia (realised special programmes of films from Brazil, Argentina, India, European and Arab countries etc.) | |
| Author of TV portraits of Nagisa Oshima, Peter Greenaway, Chantal Akerman, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Harvey Keitel, Simon Perry, Atom Egoyan, Sergey Bodrov, Tsai Ming-liang, Paul Morrissay, Hou Hsiao-hsien, etc. |
Mag. Christian WEHRSCHÜTZ
Correspondent for Southern and Eastern Europe, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Belgrade
| 1981-1985 | Studium an der juridischen Fakultät und am Institut für Slawistik, Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz |
| 1997 | Teilnahme an der Ukrainian Summer School, Harvard University, USA |
| 1998 | Einmonatiges Stipendium, Duke-Universität in North Carolina auf Einladung der Austrian-American-Foundation (abschließend wurden auch Medien in New York und Washington besucht) |
| Als Korrespondent zählt zum Tätigkeitsbereich die Berichterstattung über Serbien und Montenegro, die ehemaligen jugoslawischen Teilrepubliken Mazedonien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Kroatien, Slowenien, den Kosovo und Albanien sowie die Führung des ORF-Büros in Belgrad. Verbunden war und ist diese journalistische Tätigkeit mit ausgedehnten Reisen durch die Zielländer in der Region. | |
| Fremdsprachenkenntnisse: Englisch, Russisch, Ukrainisch, Serbisch (sehr gut), Französisch (gut), Slowenisch (gut), Mazedonisch (passiv gut), Albanisch (Grundkenntnisse) | |
| 2014 | Journalist des Jahres |
| seit 2014 | Korrespondent des ORF für die Ukraine |
