Cinema City, another International Film & Media Festival in Serbia, officially began last night, 5th of June on Saturday and will end 12th of June 2010, in a quiet little town Novi Sad. The grand opening of the Cinema City Film Festival celebrated the film The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella, this year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. The festival ruptured charismatic actress and singer Juliette Lewis, a special guest of the Festival at Katolicka porta in Novi Sad. A fab Juliette also performed in front of a bewilder crowd with her postpunk garage indy band New Romantics at Petrovaradin Fortress, well know by its magnificent Exit Festival, recently proclaimed as the most popular music festival in Europe. Cinema City organized a great opening party at Petrovaradin Fortress. The following music on the opening party spiced up a sound and synchronized videography inspired by retro, synthpop, funk aesthetics, in the conjunction with electronic Daft Punk or Chemical Brothers kind of music.

At the first press conference journalists were privilege to see a Superstar Juliette Lewis, while other visitors have had the chance to see an old classic Natural Born Killers by Oliver Stone in one of the numerous open air cinemas. Open air cinemas are available only during the festival, while other time the charming little town Novi Sad do not have a cinema. Just to remind, for her role in this film Juliette Lewis received a Best Actress Award at Venice Film Festival while special jury award went to film director Oliver Stone. And I can tell you one thing, Natural Born Killers still provokes attention and focuses on some important issues of human nature. Later on, the program followed by Burton’s new remarkable feature Alice in Wonderland, animated film vision of Lewis Carroll’s story.

  Film Program of Cinema City

The film program of festival contains 14 selections with over 150 films and more than 100 premieres. The main parts of the festival are three competitive selections. The festival will present to the audience for the most recent film creations as well as great authors of significant works of film industry. National Class the best domestic film creations, and exclusive premieres of domestic films. Exit Point presents current laureates of the most significant festivals around the world such as Cannes, Berlin, Tribeca, and Sundance. Up to 10k Bucks, films made on a budget less than 10,000 dollars and the future of cinematography.  Awards of Cinema City festival will be given by a jury consisting of five international members. Along with Ibis statue and the prize money. The non-competitive programme presents some of the most important film creations this year, musicals, homage to our great author, the best film from the region (a Croatian New Film), and the most recent creations of attractive world cinematography.

In the non-competitive program Cinema City will show the work by a famous American animator Bill Plympton, also a collection of films by Guillermo Arriaga he received Palme d’Or and was nominated two times for the Oscar for Best Screenplay. The festival also presented the famous creations by Aleksandar Sasa Petrovic and Zika Pavlovic. With Animatrix selection, Cinema City will present the most interesting works from the domain of animated film. Japanese animations, European and American animated films of high-quality production, often based on comics, and the good works of new technologies, virtual reality, cyber punk. Within its academic programme, Cinema City will hold an educational workshops where film artists, theorists, critics and representatives of film institutions will discuss subjects most crucial for film art and film industry.

National ClassDue to a great interest for domestic aka national cinematography, Cinema City will present 12 new films of Serbian Cinematography. Out of cultural and economic tendency for cultural merging there are many regional joint productions on festival: Janko Baljak’s Blue Train, The Devil’s Town by Vladimir Paskaljevic, 32ng Decembar by Sasa Hajdukovic, Some Other Stories by various different artists ( Ivona Juka, Ana Maria Rossi, Ines Tanovic, Maria Dzidzeva, Hanna Slac), Besa by Srdjan Karanovic, The Woman With The Broken Nose by Srdjan Koljevic, Flashback by Aleksandar Jankovic, The Heart of the Wise Lives in the House of Sorrow by Marin Malesevic, Motel Nana by Predrag Velinovic, The Honeymoons by Goran Paskaljevic, Like an Early Frost by Djordje Balasevic and very controversial Serbian film called Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic.