Within the framework of this year’s edition of the Sarajevo City of Film Project four short films are going to be filmed, and then premiered at the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival.
The Call for Entries attracted the total of 16 projects whose teams of authors consisted of young talents, participants of 4th and 5th editions of Sarajevo Talent Campus. The selected projects for the 2012 Sarajevo City of Film are:
THE PLAYGROUND
director: Ionut Piturescu (Romania)
scriptwriter: Zelmira Szabo (Romania)
actors: Milan Trninić (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Dijana Vidušin (Croatia)
SOMETHING SWEET
director: Jelena Gavrilović (Serbia)
scriptwriter: Tanja Šljivar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
actress: Ana Mandić (Serbia)
ROUNDABOUT
director: Orsi Nagypal (Hungary)
scriptwriter: Elizampetta Ilia (Greece)
The fourth film that will be realized will be made in the frame of newly launched additional component to this program entitled Sarajevo City of Film Special, in which, next to the projects selected, an established filmmaker is invited to shoot a short film within the same framework and to share his knowledge and experience with young filmmakers.
The selected projects are going to be filmed in Sarajevo during spring. Taking into consideration the aims of the SCF project, which are to discover new talents and new forms of film expressions, as well as to improve the cooperation between young creative authors whose work represents the future of regional cinematography, the teams of authors of selected projects each year include members coming from at least two different countries. In this way, the Sarajevo Film Festival wishes to encourage creation of the new network of young film talents in the region.
As in previous years, Sarajevo City of Film Production Workshop will be held in the frame of Sarajevo City of Film Project.
The participants of Sarajevo City of Film Production Workshop in 2012 will be following young producers: Dragana Jovović (Serbia), Milena Džambasović (Serbia) and Nandor Lovas (Hungary). Sarajevo City of Film Production Workshop is dedicated to young professionals from 13 countries of the region who took part as producers at one of the previous two Sarajevo Talent Campus editions. By participating in this Workshop the participants are given the opportunity of practical work on realization of short films which will be made within the Sarajevo City of Film Project.
The main partner of the Sarajevo City of Film Project is the ATLANTIC Group, which this year is going to again award the best achievement of the 2012 Sarajevo City of Film Project.
