Dr. Dejan KOSANOVIC
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| 1952 | graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade |
| 1954 | graduated in the History of Arts at the Department of Philosophy of Belgrade University |
| 1983 | acquired a Ph.D. in history (early film history) at the University of Arts in Belgrade |
| 1952-1961 | Assistant Director in feature films directed by Yugoslav and world film directors; among others to Helmuth Kautner (Germany), Carmine Gallone and Gillo Pontecorvo (Italy), Claude Autant-Lara and Robert Hossein (France) and some Yugoslav film directors; a large experience in foreign film spectacles realized in Yugoslavia |
| from 1954 | directed over 30 documentary films; latest documentary on the history of Belgrade city transport realized in October 2004; filmed the first Yugoslav documentary film in color on Serbian medieval frescoes in 1957 on KODAK "Eastman color" |
| 1962-1968 | Executive Director of the "Yugoslav Film Festival", an independent institution at that time in charge of all the public |
| relations of the Yugoslav cinematography | |
| 1962-1995 | Professor of Film and TV production and Production Management at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade |
| since 1968 | has produced and directed more than two hundreds TV documentaries, mostly for Yugoslav National Television; |
| a good number of them dealed with history of arts | |
| since 1969 | worked for ABC Sports and ABC News, mainly as production manager for sports shows realized in several |
| countries in Europe, as the Director of Liaison and Coordination worked for ABC Sports on Olympic Games | |
| in Lake Placid (1980), Sarajevo (1984), Los Angeles (1984) and Calgary (1988) |
Publikationen
| Published about 300 bibliographic units (studies, articles) on film, theatre and television. | |
| Published 11 books on cinema and film history (two of them abroad in France and Italy). Still very active in the film history research field, cooperating with the National Film Archive in Belgrade (for ten years President of the Board of Governors). |
