Talents Sarajevo #8

1 Talents Sarajevo #8


Contents

4 INTRODUCTION 5 Editorial: Talents Sarajevo #8

6 Welcome note from our partner - Berlinale Talents and Berlin International Film Festival

7 About the Academy of Performing Arts, Sarajevo

8 TALENTS 2014

15 PROGRAMME 2014 16 Friday, August 15

16 Saturday, August 16

18 Sunday, August 17

21 Monday, August 18

24 Tuesday, August 19

28 Wednesday, August 20

31 Thursday, August 21

33 Friday, August 22

38 EXPERTS 2014

45 SERVICE 45 Partners&Sponsors

47 Impressum


Sarajevo Talent Campus 2013


Imag(in)e Looking Long and Hard

Drawing from this year’s overall theme “Imag(in)e Looking Long and Hard”, Talents Sarajevo 2014 will invite emerging film professionals to reflect on challenges of cinematography and experiment with imagery. They will be encouraged to maintain their gaze, to look long and hard around themselves to be able to distil extraordinary from the ordinary. Aspiring filmmakers will be inspired to experiment with visually appealing and striking solutions before reaching for narratively coherent and familiar ones.

Talents Sarajevo 2014 will celebrate insightful, daring and groundbreaking filmmaking and for the first time open its doors to up-and-coming cinematographers. As in previous editions it will also include actors, direc-tors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from the wider region of Southeast Europe and Southern Caucasus.

Aware that a cinematographer is the film director’s main visual collaborator, who occupies a central role in providing a film with a unique visual context, we have decided to create the program component tailor-made for cinematographers in addition to the existing ones aimed for actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and film critics. Beside trainings made for specific groups of professionals, our aim is to enlarge the number of sessions made for a combined group of two, three or more film professions. This way we want to encourage net-working and boost up forthcoming collaborations within the regional film industry. As in previous editions, the 8th edition of the Talents Sarajevo will have an emphasis on a series of networking opportunities, complemented with hands-on trainings, master classes, inspiring talks with established regional and inter-national filmmakers, festival excursions and film screenings.We greatly look forward to attending sessions and exchanging views with Oscar winning filmmakers: direc-tor Michel Hazanavicius and actress Melissa Leo; and some of the worlds and regional most influential film professionals like Gael Garcia Bernal, Hawk Koch, Jasmila Žbanić, Jean- Michel Frodon, Kornel Mundruczo, Kutlug Ataman, Marco Mueller, Mike Leigh and many others.

We hope that together we will take pleasure in the program of the 8th Talents Sarajevo, launched in coop-eration with the Berlin International Film Festival and Berlinale Talents, and build valuable partnerships of tomorrow.

Editorial Talents Sarajevo #8


Welcome to Talents Sarajevo!

Since 2003, the Berlin International Filmfestival has focused on a new filmmaking generation from around the world, annually inviting 300 Talents to Berlin. The Sarajevo Film Festival has been closely linked to Berlin for many years and became part of the Talents network in 2007. Both festivals, Sarajevo and Berlin, stand for cultural diversity and tolerance. Sarajevo has achieved a lot: as one of the leading film festivals and cultural events in the region, it has opened its heart to the next generation of filmmakers and sup-ported more than 500 emerging filmmakers within its Talent programme over the past years. This year the Sarajevo Film Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary, a very special moment for the region, for the past and the future. We are honoured to be part of it and thank all the people, especially Mirsad Purivatra and Izeta Gradevic, who have made the festival the success story it is today.

Films are created to make you dream, live and understand different points of view. And we believe that a good film that is made from the heart will always succeed internationally. You are invited to share your pas-sion for film, to learn from each other, to listen and to discuss film industry and business matters. We offer our platform and network to facilitate meetings and help you meet potential partners. All of you are in the first years of your career but aim to bond to international peers and want to be part of a global community of a new generation of film professionals. We hope to create a collaborative basis for many years to come by building relationships with partners in your region and in the world.

After Sarajevo, we encourage you to consider applying for Berlinale Talents. You will find more information under www.berlinale-talents.de. The deadline for 2015 is on September 1st, 2014. Many Berlinale col-leagues will be attending this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival so don’t hesitate to talk to us personally!

We wish all attending filmmakers an engaging and inspiring week in Sarajevo, a city that never sleeps and is full of heart.

Florian Weghorn and Christine Tröstrum

Welcome from our Partner – Berlinale Talents


The Academy of Performing Arts

The Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo started with its activities in 1981, with the enrolment of the first generation of students at the Acting Department. It was followed by the opening of the Directing Department (1989), whereas the Department of Dramaturgy was established during the war year of 1994. An important segment of the Academy’s activities has been realized at the Open Stage Obala, Sarajevo legendary theater, the place where students present their work and where professional actors, directors and writers contribute to the theatre repertoire of Sarajevo and BiH.The Academy of Performing Arts is the oldest acting school in BiH, whereas the work of Acting Depart-ment was established on the foundations of the experiences from prestigious acting schools from Europe and the world. Considering the number and importance of the prizes awarded to the achievements of its alumni, the Directing Department can compete with even the most prestigious schools of similar kind from Europe and the world. The Department offers the study of multi-media directing as a unique artistic profes-sion practiced in theatre, film, TV and radio. At the Department of Dramaturgy, the concept of studies is based on the complexity and synthetic character of dramatic arts, as well as on the positive world experi-ences and original working methods from the field of dramaturgy, theatrology and film arts. The program joins classic and modern principles and procedures. Open Stage ObalaThe Open Stage Obala is the place for student training and the public presentation of exam works and students’ projects. A part of student training is implemented in the cooperation with theatre, TV and film companies in Sarajevo, which enables the realization of students’ practical work and projects (theatre plays and films).Professors and students continued to work at the Academy even during the siege of Sarajevo, directing plays and documentary films, or collaborating on different art projects. During the period between 1992 and 1996, the teachers and students of the Directing Department contributed to the following events and productions: International Theatre Festival MESS, the first Sarajevo Film Festival, the productions of the SaGa film company, the Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo theaters, as well as a number of other art and documentary projects. The alumni of the Directing Department have received over 200 awards, including: the American Academy Award (Oscar), European Film Academy Award (EFA), Cannes Film Festival Award, as well as the awards from the films festivals in Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam…Recently, the Academy has established the Department of Production, Management and Editing, hoping that soon students will breed success in that field as well.

PJER ŽALICADean of the Academy of Performing Arts.

Academy of Performing Arts - Home of the Talents Sarajevo


Actors

Alexandra Guary, Hungary

Katarina Strahinić, Croatia

Umit Erlim, Turkey

Iskra Jirsak, Croatia

Doroteja Nadrah, Slovenia

Dina Mušanović, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Maja Šuša, Serbia

Emőke Pál, Romania

Rijad Gvozden, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Matija Živković, Serbia

Balázs Bodolai, Romania

Blaž Setnikar, Slovenia

Natalija Teodosieva, Macedonia

Ivan Ožegović, Croatia

Ana Maria Moldovan, Romania

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Florina Titz, Romania

Ivana Škrabalo, Croatia

Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece

Ena Sendijarevic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Andrey Volkashin, Macedonia

Aleksandra Odic, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gökçe Erdem, Turkey

Ayşegül Doğan, Turkey

Milica Pendić, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Igor Simic, Serbia

Stefan Babara, Moldova

Raia Al Souliman, Romania

Nikolaos Kyritsis, Greece

Imamaddin Hasanov, Azerbaijan

Krum Yankov, Bulgaria

Directors

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Selin Murat, Turkey

Beste Yamalıoğlu, Turkey

Stojan Yankov, Bulgaria

Arevik Avanesyan, Armenia

Neda Milanova, Bulgaria

Giorgi Kvachadze, Georgia

Emmanuil Papadakis, Greece

Anna Sípos, Hungary

Nina Latinovic, Serbia

Nedjeljka Mojaš, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Andra Popescu, Romania

Andra Maria Matresu, Romania

Matija Drniković, Croatia

Bogdan Andrei Iliesiu, Romania

Maja Kecojevic, Montenegro

Martin Iliev, Bulgaria

Producers

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Višna Mamić, Croatia

Sezen Kayhan, Turkey

Višeslav Radić, Croatia

Eleonora Veninova, Macedonia

Miha Subic, Slovenia

Bojana Babić, Serbia

Ruxandra Ghitescu, Romania

Minos Nikolakakis, Greece

Raluca Mihaela Durbacă, Romania

Ana Perčinlić, Croatia

Ioana Moraru, Romania

Virág Anna Szabó, Hungary

Ionut-Vasile Gaga, Romania

Sotiris Tsellos, Greece

Scriptwriters

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Cinematographers

Film Critics / Journalists

Pack & Pitch Projects

Andreea Dobre, Romania

Tara Karajica, Serbia

“A VILLAGE OF TWO” by Minos Nikolakakis, Greece (Screenwriter)

“HOUSE OF THREE FLAGS” by Eleonora Veninova, Macedonia (Screenwriter)

“ALICE AND THE RABBITS” by Arevik Avanesyan , Armenia (Producer)

“MAYBE TOMORROW” by Martin Iliev, Bulgaria (Producer)

“DAY OF REPUBLIC” by Matija Drniković, Croatia (Producer)

“17” by Nikolaos Kyritsis, Greece (Director)

Orlin Stanchev, Bulgaria

Vasileios Oikonomou, Greece

Dario Sekulovski, Macedonia

Sead Vegara, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Irfan Brković, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Radu Voinea, Romania

Gabriela Filippi, Romania

Oana Ghera, Romania

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Opening lecture: Jean-Michel Frodon and Leos Carax @ STC 2013


Programme Talents Sarajevo #8Events marked in:

YELLOW ARE RESERVED FOR ALL TALENTS ORANGE FOR DIRECTORS

GREEN FOR ACTORS

PINK FOR PRODUCERS PURPLE FOR SCRIPTWRITERS

BLUE FOR FILM CRITICS

GRAY JOINT LECTURES RED FOR PACK&PITCH PARTICIPANS DARK BLUE FOR CINEMATOGRAPHERS

The ones marked with black dots are open to all accredited guests of the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival.


Friday, August 15Recommended Screening - Opening Film of 20th Sarajevo Film Festival20:30 // HT Eronet Open Air CinemaAMORES PERROS, Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

Saturday, August 16Talents Sarajevo BriefingOrientation Meeting with Talents Sarajevo Team10:00 – 10:30 // ASU Open StageFollowing the breakfast, the Talents Sarajevo, located at the Academy of Performing Arts, will open the door for the initial briefing. The members of the TS team will introduce themselves, the theme of the Talents Sarajevo, the structure of the program and address some practical issues.

Opening Speed MatchingEverybody Meets Each OtherModerated by TS Team11:00 – 12:30 // ASU Open StageAt the very beginning of the Talents Sarajevo, the participants will get a chance to meet each other through the Opening Speed Matching, a more elaborated version of the “Speed Dating”. At the meetings, moderated by the TS staff that will take place in rounds, the participants will first meet each other within their profes-sional groups and then proceed by meeting others, group by group. These “get together” meetings, where the participants will have a chance to exchange ideas and projects and to get to know each other may be viewed as important networking session of the sort in the region. This Speed Matching should be a network-ing opportunity, offering the participants a chance to discover each other and establish contacts, which will hopefully result in future collaborations.

Recommended Screening12:45 - 14:45 // ASU Open StageBRIDGES OF SARAJEVO

Where to Start From?Film Critics, Scriptwriters, Cinematographers and Pack&Pitchers Meet Their Coordinators15:00 - 15:45 // ASU Open StageCertain groups of participants: cinematographers, film critics, scriptwriters and pack&pitchers have a specific program embedded in the overall program of the Talents Sarajevo, with the emphases on individual meet-ings or practical work. In order to facilitate dynamic daily activities, we have appointed coordinators for these groups.On the first day of the Talents Sarajevo, during the lunch, cinematographers, film critics, scriptwriters and pack&pitchers will meet with their respective coordinators and receive all necessary information about the structure of the program and the schedule.

Programme / Friday, August 15 / Saturday, August 16


Opening of the 8th Talents Sarajevo – Opening Conversation with Gael Garcia Bernal •Moderated by Geoff Andrew16:00 - 17:15 // Cinema Meeting Point A welcome address by Mr. Mirsad Purivatra, the Director of the Sarajevo Film Festival, and Mr. Dieter Ko-sslick, the Director of the Berlin International Film Festival and the recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sara-jevo 2010, will officially open the 8th Talents Sarajevo. The warm words of welcome will be followed by the Opening Conversation with Gael Garcia Bernal, the honorary guest of the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival and the recipient of the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, mod-erated by Geoff Andrew. In the course of the conversation, the participants will have the opportunity to see DE TRIPAS, CORAZON, a short film produced by Bernal and directed by Antonio Urrutia. Born in Guadalaraja, Mexico, in the family of actors, Gael Garcia Bernal grew up close to the film sets: as a three-year-old boy, he played Baby Jesus, and, as a teenager, he was the star of soap operas. However, his career-defining role was the one of Octavio in Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu’s AMMORES PERROS (2000). While AMORES PERROS was just starting to collect awards at festivals, Bernal starred in yet another Mexican film that became a synonym for the explosion of Latin American cinema at the beginning of the new millen-nium. Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (2001, Alfonso Cuarón), differed from AMORES PERROS, but both films shared realism and sensibility created, to a large extent, by Bernal’s characters: boys driven by life circumstances into certain initiation sex-and-violence rituals that were to make real men out of them. The most successful Bernal’s roles are those that show that masculinity can be just as elusive and volatile as femininity. Exemplary in this regard are the roles in his two 2004 works for the two directorial legends: in Walter Salles’ THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES he played young Ernesto Guevara de la Serna before he became Che Guevara, whereas in Pedro Almodovar’s BAD EDUCATION he played a character who juggles with several personas, the most flamboyant being a drag queen. Another pair of roles played by Bernal one year after the other illustrates the range easily covered by this ac-tor: Elvis in James Marsh’s superb psychological drama THE KING (2005) and Stéphan in Michel Gondry’s THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. As years pass by, Bernal more often plays young men who grew out of early youth without even knowing it: businessman Leo Vidales, who becomes aware of the frailty of his marriage in MAMMOTH (2009, Lukas Moodysson), director Sebastián, who tries to make a film about the exploitation of Indians in Columbia by Spanish conquistadors only to realize that his production is a new form of exploitation in EVEN THE RAIN (2010, Icíar Bollaín), and Alex in THE LONELIEST PLANET (2011, Julia Loktev), as the most subtle representation of this breakdown of a male protagonist. Apart from acting, Bernal is engaged in producing, scriptwriting and directing. With a close friend Diego Luna, he founded a production company Canana Films and produced more than twenty films. He directed film DEFICIT (2007) and several short films and segments in omnibuses.

Recommended Screening 18:00 // Cinema Meeting PointMR. TURNER, Director: Mike Leigh,followed by Q&A moderated by Mike Goodridge

Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), music by SMS Deutsch23:00 // Atrium Garden, School of Economics and Business

Programme / Saturday, August 16


Sunday, August 17Visual Storytelling – the Journey of Making Film •Lecture by Mike LeighModerated by: Mike Goodridge 10:00 – 11:00 // ASU Open StageThe story of Sarajevo Film Festival is – among other things – the story of cordial friendship between the Festival and Mike Leigh. In 2002, the program “Tribute to…” was dedicated to this prolific auteur, in 2006, he received the Heart of Sarajevo, while almost all of his films have been regularly screened at the Festival. Many things have changed over the past six years since the last time he was a guest of Talents Sarajevo. Yet, one thing is constant – Leigh remains the embodiment of authorial decidedness and ever-persistent commit-ment to principles and work that give shape to his filmmaking. An unrepentant realist who vigorously reminds us that entertainment does not mean escapism, Leigh likes to counter the Hitchcockian claim that people do not go to cinema to see a film which reflects their own everyday worries and other prosaic stuff of ordinary lives. However, this does not mean that Leigh’s direc-torial philosophy is based on a call for mere replication of reality. Asserting that a film should aspire to the “condition of documentary”, Leigh emphasizes that reality itself, as it were, does not suffice for a good realist art. The truth of reality, according to Leigh, is not to be rendered by means of a documentary style that aims to “capture” authentic events, but needs to be created in a joint effort of director and other members of the film crew. Leigh’s working process is an elaborate procedure that fully acknowledges the collaborative nature of the film medium. Instead of producing a script from a storyline, Leigh starts off with feelings and conceptions. He also does not start with clearly defined characters: they are created through intense work with actors, which includes both in-depth research of the topic and rehearsals comprised of innumerable improvisations, leading to the point where all characters are developed, in Leigh’s words, “from the moment they are born, throughout their entire lives in every detail, each as much as the others.” The same kind of “organic work” shapes other aspects of his films as well: visual palette, costume, mise en scene… Only after months of ex-haustive preparation and rehearsal, the camera captures images and sights which are precise and anything but improvised. This time Leigh comes to SFF with MR. TURNER, his 2014 biopic of the master of the classic English painting J. M. W. Turner. The film is another testimony to the director’s unique “organic” filmmaking, this time centered on the idiosyncratic performance of Leigh regular Timothy Spall in the titular role. Using MR. TURNER as a case study, Leigh will elaborate on his working process in conversation with Mike Goodridge.

Talents Sarajevo Welcomes Cinematographers The team of Talents Sarajevo proudly introduces a training program for cinematographers!Aware that a cinematographer is the film director’s main visual collaborator, who occupies a central role in providing a film with a unique visual context, for a while, we have wanted to make the program for cin-ematographers a part of Talents Sarajevo program in addition to the existing programs for actors, directors, screenwriters, producers and film critics. As this year’s theme “Imag(in)e Looking Long and Hard” focuses on the ‘visual image’, it was the perfect timing to invite cinematographers to join Talents Sarajevo family. The central part of the program will be the workshop with Fred Kelemen, cinematographer, director and producer with rich experience, entitled: Inside the Time-crystal of Darkness and Light. Fred will help a small team of cinematographers expand their views with respect to translating story into images and help them develop a unique voice and style behind camera.

Programme / Sunday, August 17


In addition to attending the workshop, cinematographers will attend lectures designed for all participants, but also some sessions designed for them and their colleagues directors.

INSIDE THE TIME-CRYSTAL OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT- Cinegraphic Moments -Cinematography Workshop by Fred Kelemen10:00 – 14:00 // ASU 3aThe cinegraphic moment is the nucleus, the heart of the art of film. Beyond story and plot the cinegraphic moment is what makes a film a film and distinguishes it from literature, painting, music and any other art. The cinegraphic moment is a space which lies beyond words. Entering the space of the cinegraphic mo-ment means to enter the totality of the poetry of the presence of body and time - of manifestation and transience, of fragility and eternity. To detect the cinegraphic moments - in reality, in prose or drama literature or wherever - and to make them gleam on the screen is the task of a filmmaker. In this workshop each participant should select a cinegraphic moment - detected in a real life situation, a novel, short story, drama or elsewhere - and make it visible as a scene to be shot during the work shop. Each participant should present the scene or sentence or literary description at the beginning of the workshop.

Communication and Articulation Workshop for Actors and Directors by Leon Lučev12:00 – 17:00 // ASU 3dLeon Lučev, a celebrated Croatian actor, is not just a guest of the Festival, but also a faithful supporter of young authors, which he only confirmed by coming to the Talents Sarajevo eight years in the row and partici-pating in the project Sarajevo City of Film. He has become the brand of the Talents Sarajevo and the friend of the Festival.In the workshop for actors and directors Communication and Articulation, he will focus on the concept that he has been developing over a couple of years - the communication between actor and director. The partici-pants will explore what is an instruction, how director conveys it and how actor receives it; what director can do to set actor in motion and what the role of director involves.

Talent Press SarajevoAs the main intention, besides helping develop critical thinking about film, is to expose the best talents to audience, help talents widen the network with established film professionals and fellow talents, last year, Talents Sarajevo joined the Talent Press family. Hereby, we proudly deliver the 2nd edition of Talent Press Sarajevo. Talent Press is a hands-on training program for emerging film critics, taking place during the Talent pro-grams in Berlin, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires and Durban and co-initiated and organized in collaboration with Goethe-Institut and FIPRESCI. Like last year, film critics/journalists will attend lectures designed for all talents, the session tailor-made for them (“No Message but Experience” by Jean Michel Frodon) and film screenings. However, the core of their work will be work with mentors: Dan Fainaru and Jurica Pavičić. Under the tutelage of these outstanding film critics, they will convey their insights by writing articles that will be posted on the website Talentpress.org, FIPRESCI and Festivalists. Moreover, as of this year, Talent Press Sarajevo will start the cooperation with Fred Film Fadio. FRED FILM RADIO is a multilingual platform focusing on film festivals, young talents and the independent cinema industry. They currently have 25 channels, broadcasting in 23 languages, and they are in the process to launch a new channel entirely dedicated to the Film Industry.



No Message but ExperienceLecture by Jean Michel Frodon15:15 – 17:00 // ASU BackstageAs this year Talents Sarajevo is exploring visually appealing and striking solutions in filmmaking, film critics will have an opportunity to sit down with Jean Michel Frodon, journalist, critic and historian of cinema, and discuss the challenges of reviewing predominantly visually appealing films as opposed to narratively coher-ent ones. The session will focus on the role of a film critic in reviewing sometimes hermetic and inaccessible films - how to unseal the sealed films or unlock the locked meanings or should that be the role of a film critic in the first place and what is the thrill, the challenge or the burden in doing that.

Creating the Reality of an Imaginary WorldLecture by Gyula Gazdag15:15 – 17:00 // ASU 3cExperimenting with imagery can be tempting for scriptwriters as it gives them a chance to rise above the ordinary and employ all of their creativity. However, it is important to know the limits of this imaginary world within which a scriptwriter is working and to find a way to connect to reality.In order to facilitate this process, Gyula Gazdag, film and theatre director and professor, will give the lecture on possible strategies for creating the rules of the imaginary world that will become home for the story scriptwriters are working on.

Inside the Time-crystal of Darkness and LightWorkshop by Fred Kelemen15:00 – 18:00 // ASU 3a

Between festival director and producer: Watching from the both sides •Lecture by Marco Mueller, moderated by Vanja Kaluđerčić17:00 – 18:30// ASU Open StageAs a true renaissance man, Marco Mueller started off as an academic, worked as a film critic and historian as well as the author and writer of documentaries on the cinema. However, he has earned the most credits as “festival maker” and a producer. He directed the Rotterdam International Film Festival (1989-1991), where he created instruments that were to play an important role in insuring financial aid and cultural support for independent films (the Hubert Bals Fund and the Coproduction workshop today known as CineMart), the Locarno Film Festival (1991-2000), where he renewed criteria for programming from the roots up and finally, the Venice Film Festival (2004-2011), where he revitalized the festival and introduced a lab-styled competitive section called Orizzoni, a creative space showcasing non-conventional forms of cinema. Between 1998 and 2002, as a producer for Fabrica Cinema, he was credited with two shorts and nine feature films: three were co-produced and six were produced: SEVENTEEN YEARS by Zhang Yuan (China), prize for directing, Venice 1999; BLACKBOARDS by Samira Makhmalbaf (Iran), special jury’s prize at Cannes 2000; LA BESTIA DALLE SETTE TESTE by Lais Bodansky (Brazil), youth award at Locarno 2000 and 32 prizes in Brazil and in Latin America; NO MAN’S LAND by Danis Tanovic (Bosnia), prize for the screenplay at Cannes 2001, Oscar 2002 for best foreign film; SECRET BALLOT by Babak Payami (Iran), award for screenplay in Venice 2001; ANGEL ON THE RIGHT by Jamshed Usmonov (Tajikistan), Cannes 2002 (Critics’ award at the London Film Festival, Special Jury Prize at Filmex, Tokyo). Between 2002 and 2004, as the president of a new production house Downtown Pictures (Bologna), he produced: ÇAMUR (MUD) by Darvish Zaim (UNESCO Prize, Venice 2003), followed by SOLNTSE (THE SUN)



by Aleksandr Sokurov (Berlin 2005), FACE ADDICT by Edo Bertoglio (Locarno 2005), KAN SHANG QU HEN MEI (LITTLE RED FLOWERS) by Zhang Yuan (Sundance/Berlin 2006) and GRIDO (SHOUT) by Pippo Delbono (Cinema-Rome Fest 2006). Drawing on his rich experience as both festival director and producer, Marco Mueller will meet with directors and producers and talk about balancing between the two functions and how being film producer helped him work as festival director and if being festival director changed him as producer.

Recommended Screening 18:30 // ASU Open StageCURE- THE LIFE OF ANOTHER, Director: Andrea Štaka

Gloria Celebrates Talent20:00 // Cocktail at the Festival Square

Recommended Screening 20:30 // HT Eronet Open Air CinemaIN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE, Director: Hans Petter Moland

Recommended Screening 22:30 // National TheatreWHITE GOD, Director: Kornel Mundruczó

Monday, August 18Building the Bridges of Sarajevo Jean Michel Frodon, Jovan Marjanović10:15 – 11:30 // ASU Open Stage (P,D,S)The program of the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival includes BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO, the omnibus where 13 Eu-ropean directors of different generations and origins, offering many singular styles and visions, explore the theme of Sarajevo and what city has represented in European history over the past hundred years and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. Jean Michel Frodon, artistic director and Jovan Marjanović, producer, will discuss challenges and demands behind the artistic and financial construction of BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO.

Different ImagesEncounter with Ada Condeescu10:15 – 11:30 // ASU 3cA graduate in Acting at Bucharest’s National University of Theatre and Film, Ada made her film acting debut in Florin Serban’s award-winning IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE which premiered at the 2010 Berlinale. She followed this with another two lead roles: in Catalin Mitulescu’s second film LOVERBOY, which was shown in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2011, and Bogdan Mustata’s feature debut WOLF. For her perfor-mance in LOVERBOY she was awarded as Best Actress at the 17th Sarajevo Film Festival. She played her most recent role in Jasmila Žbanić’s LOVE ISLAND that is to be screened at the Sarajevo Film Festival.Although very young, Ada has already gained a wealth of experienced and earned the reputation of an ac-



tress who effortlessly glides from one role to another. During an encounter with actors, Ada will talk about how she approached these different types of roles and what acting techniques she used to breathe life into her characters.


Film Financing in a Global World for Independent Filmmakers – Looking for the Right Partners •Examples, strategies and an overview and the history of the marketLecture by Anke Zwirner, Producer12:30 – 14:00 // ASU Open Stage (D,P)Film financing in a global world is challenging especially for young talents. Anke Zwirner will talk about her 20 years of experience in the industry. While working in Berlin and Los Angeles she helped many young filmmakers find their way into the film market and supervised lots of international co-productions. Many of these films won awards at international film festivals. Her Ph.D. thesis analyzed the situation of film financing from the perspective of young filmmakers. She will give an introduction to the international film financing market, its structure and show examples of realized projects.

TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK&PITCH Pitching Training by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma12:15 – 18:00 // ASU 3dThe two annual projects of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the Talents Sarajevo and Cinelink, present special pitching training for the selected participants: Talents Sarajevo Pack & Pitch!Talents Sarajevo Pack & Pitch will offer the selected participants a chance to learn how to analyze and pre-pare their projects to present them in public, in front of industry professionals. This year’s selected projects are:ALICE AND THE RABBITS by Arevik Avanesyan (Armenia) - Scriptwriter, Director, ProducerHOUSE OF THREE FLAGS by Eleonora Veninova (Macedonia) - Scriptwriter, Director, ProducerMAYBE TOMORROW by Martin Iliev (Bulgaria) - Director, ScriptwriterDAY OF REPUBLIC by Matija Drniković (Croatia) - Scriptwriter, ProducerA WILLAGE OF TWO by Minos Nikolakakis (Greece) - Scriptwriter, Director, Producer17 by Nikolaos Kyritsis (Greece) - Scriptwriter, DirectorSelected participants will be mentored by Pitching Trainer Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma, Project Consultant, who will teach them how to do an One Pager, how to analyze their current projects, how to pitch them and to whom and thoroughly prepare them for written and oral presentation that will take place at the end of the program before the jury and the audience of colleagues and industry professionals. The talent who makes the best pitch, according to a 5-member jury, will get an invitation to attend the Cinelink programme at Sarajevo Film Festival 2015. Additionally, the producer of the best project will receive an award given by Yapimlab, workshop atelier from Istanbul, which provides training for new producers and support to those already in business, but also enables young producers from other countries to work in Turkey, thereby establishing a network among professionals. The winner of the Yapimlab Award will be invited to Istanbul for a thorough study on the strategy and poten-tials of his/her film project together with Zeynep Özbatur Atakan. The awardee will receive the mentoring on how the project should be developed further in order to maintain its place at the international cinema platform, together with specific presentation strategies and meetings with fellow Turkish film producers. All

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the costs of travelling and accommodation will be covered by YAPIMLAB. This award will be offered, for the first time, at Talents Sarajevo, Sarajevo Film Festival 2014.

Collaboration in the Creation of Visual Language Master Class by Fabrice Aragno 15:15 – 16:15 // ASU Open Stage (D,P, DOP)After working as lighting specialist and stage manager, Fabrice Aragno directed a couple of short films including DIMANCHE (1998), which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival, LE JEU (2002), HAPPY WORLD (2004) LES ENFANTS DORMANT (2010), AUTOUR DE CLAIR (2010). Since 2002, he has collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard as cinematographer: NOTRE MUSIQUE (2004), FILM SOCIALISME (2010), GOODBUY LANGUAGE (2014)When the Swiss TV station asked him to make a film on Jean-Luc Godard, Aragno did not want to make a docu-mentary ‘on’ but ‘with’ Godard, which resulted in QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM, 26 one-minute sequences, with 4 shots in each sequence, all recycled from Godard’s work.As this year’s theme ‘Imag(in)e Looking Long and Hard’ involves experimenting with imagery, visually appeal-ing and striking solutions and as Talents Sarajevo is opening the door to up-and-coming cinematographers for the first time, the session will round up directors, producers and DOPs and explore the collaboration between director and cinematographer in establishing the visual feel and specific aesthetic needs of the project.

Transforming a Personal Vision into Image Master Class by Andrea Štaka16:30 – 18:00 // ASU Open Stage (D,S,A)After winning the Heart of Sarajevo with DAS FRÄULEIN eight years ago, Andrea Štaka returns to the Compe-tition Program with her second feature CURE – THE LIFE OF ANOTHER. By telling the story of an episode in the life of a teenage girl going from Switzerland to wartime Dubrovnik, she contrasts real and imaginary, the rational and irrational and treats the issue of identity and belonging. In the master class for directors, scriptwriters and actors, Andrea will reflect upon the entire creative process involved in making a film: from the conception of an idea and the development of personal attitude towards a story to collaboration with the rest of the team – first, actors and a cinematographer in the process of shooting and later, an editor in the process of postproduction – in order to give strong visual language to her story.


Recommended Screening 18:15 // ASU Open StageLOVE ISLAND, Director: Jasmila Žbanić

Recommended Screening 20:30 // HT Eronet Open Air CinemaTHE SEARCH, Director: Michel Hazanavicius

TALENTS SARAJEVO Party – Silent Disco •23:00 // Hotel Bosnia

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Tuesday, August 19Docu BreakfastWith Rada Šešić9:00 - 10:00 // Festival Square Sarajevo Film Festival’s Documentary Competition Program and its Docu Corner offer a unique possibility to documentary filmmakers from the region – DOCU ROUGH CUT BOUTIQUE!In collaboration with the Balkan Documentary Center, the workshop put together filmmakers of 5 promising projects at rough cut stage with the top documentary experts from Europe to work together during 6 inten-sive sessions. Together with Cinelink, a development and financing platform for selected regional feature-length fiction films, Rough Cut Boutique is yet another program designed to offer professional assistance to aspiring young filmmakers.Rada Šešić, Program Selector for Documentary Competition Program will join Talents at the Docu Breakfast, inform them about the Rough Cut Boutique in more detail and answer any potential questions. Finally, she will announce the lecture by documentary filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich, who is also RCB trainer.

Shifting Perspectives Case study of White God by Kornél Mundruczó10:00 – 11:00 // ASU Open Stage (D,P,S) The Competition Program of the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival will present the Gala Screening of WHITE GOD by the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó. The film premiered at Cannes, where it won the Best Film award at Un certain regard. It is a story about a 13-year old girl whose separation from her pet dog brings about a dog rebellion against humankind. From a naïve teenager movie Mundruczó takes us to a violent revenge film, aim-ing at showing us how hatred breeds nothing but hatred, but leaving us a glimmer of hope and reconciliation at the very end. The English title is a direct allusion to the 1982 Samuel Fuller film WHITE DOG, which speaks about racism through a similar conflict between man and his alleged best friend.Kornél Mundruczó, director, in the company of Kata Wéber, script writer and Victoria Petrany, producer, will join the participants of Talents Sarajevo for a case-study session. In the session they will explore the power relation dog – human through shifting perspective in WHITE GOD. Further, they will address the challenges on the level of story-telling, camera work, related editing and production decisions that transferred a story into picture.

TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK&PITCH Pitching Training by Gabriele Brunnenmeyer and Selina Ukwuoma10:00 – 14:00 // ASU 3d

Intensive Story Coaching: Working Towards a Better ScriptWorkshop for Talent Scriptwriters with Licia Eminenti, Gyula Gazdag and Olivia Hetreed10:15 – 14:00 // ASU 3b, 3c, 3eSince scriptwriters are in charge of setting the creative direction of the film and creating the emotional im-pact, they need good support and understanding why stories and scripts work. The program of the Talents Sarajevo will offer both creative and practical guidance enabling scriptwriters to develop storytelling abilities and imagination. Apart from general lectures designed for all talents, script-writers will attend the lectures to help them improve the craft of screenwriting: “Creating The Reality of an Imaginary World” by Gyula Gazdag.Intensive Story Coaching is a two-day writer’s workshop that gives talent scriptwriters the opportunity to

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work intensively on their scripts with the support of the tutors in an environment that encourages innova-tion and creative risk-taking. Through one-on-one sessions, packed with information and tools for writing, scriptwriters will engage in the process that will offer them valuable lessons in craft needed to bring their scripts to an end.Licia Eminenti, script analyst, together with Gyula Gazdag, director and professor, and Olivia Hatreed, screenwriter will convey knowledge, skills and creativity to talents, helping them improve their scripts, avoid potential traps and overcome problems.


Coffee with Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo •11:00 – 12:00, Festival Square (D,A,P) Bérénice Bejo and Michel Hazanavicius rose to fame with the release of THE ARTIST (2011), black and white silent comedy placed in the 1930’s Hollywood, Hazanavicius’ love letter to the epoch and its imagery. Bejo played Peppy Miller, a young rising movie star that falls in love with an older matinee idol George Valentin, played by Jean Dujardin. THE ARTIST was the most atypical mainstream hit and a phenomenon which domi-nated the cultural agenda, winning awards from Palm d’Or (2011) to five Oscars in 2012 (including the one for the best film, the best director and the best male lead role).However, the beginning of both personal and professional relationship for Bejo and Hazanavicius was the 2006 deadpan parody of the spy films, OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES, directed by Hazanavicius. Bejo played exotic beauty, who helps the titular agent 117, a suave-yet-dimwitted secret agent played by Jean Dujardin. The chemistry between two actors was such that Hazanavicius wrote the roles of Peppy and George especially for them. Bejo’s next important role was in THE PAST (2013), the first film that Iranian director Asghar Farhadi made abroad after the tremendous success of his previous film A SEPARATION (2011). Bejo is the heart of the film as a woman torn between two men: Marie Brisson, a French woman trying to divorce her estranged Iranian husband Ahmad and make a new start with Samir, the lover with whom she is pregnant. Mark Kermode’s appraisal of the actress is exemplary: “Having proved herself in The Artist to be a master of silent comedy – that ruthless, rigorous genre in which intense physical choreography is everything – Bejo applies the same precision to her portrayal of a character in flux, beset by confusion, longing for change. One could write volumes on the meaning of the fleeting glances Bejo throws as she moves through the drama like a dancer, a whirlwind of warring emotions, fragile yet indomitable”. She was given the award for Best Actress in Cannes.The latest collaboration between Bejo and Hazanavicius is THE SEARCH (2014), the story of the war in Chechnya in 1999, inspired by 1948 eponymous film of Fred Zinnemann set in the early post-World War II days. The film follows the young Chechen boy Hadji who turns mute and unresponsive after seeing his parents disappear in a massacre. While his older sister is looking for him, Carole (Bejo), an NGO worker, is trying to pull him out of his trauma. The audience of the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival will have a chance to see THE SEARCH in the Open Air Pro-gram and attend a Coffee with Bejo and Hazanavicius at the Festival Square where they will discuss the film and their careers.

Looking for Talents Conversation with Philippe Bober 12:00 - 13:00 // ASU Open StagePhilippe Bober is known as the founder of the Coproduction Office, one of the most recognizable European sales and production companies with a reputation for discovering and nurturing talents. The Coproduction Office started as the company which mainly worked with financing and sales and evolved to include talent



spotting and production. When it was established, back in 1987, this Berlin-based company mainly worked with financing and international sale of films by, among others Lars von Tier, Mika and Aki Kaurismaki, Nanni Moretti and late Andrei Tarkovski. The next logical step was to include production in the operation by founding Essential Filmproduktion in 1996 and finally, upon the return to Paris, in 2001, he set up of-fices with included a short film division, “a sort of greenhouse for new filmmakers”. The work of Philippe Bober, as a creative producer, includes the early films of Lars von Tier (EUROPA, THE KINGDOM, BREAKING THE WAVES), Lu Ye (SUZHOU RIVER), Carlos Reygadas (JAPON and BATTLE IN HEAVEN), Roy Andersson (SONG FROM THE SECOND FLOOR, YOU THE LIVING), Jessica Hausner (LOVELY RITA, HOTEL and LOURDES), Kornel Mundruczo (PLEASANT DAYS, DELTA), Urlich Seidl (DOG DAYS and IM-PORT EXPORT), as well as international discoveries and top sellers such as Christi Puiu’s THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU and Corneliu Porumboiu’s 12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST.The Office is focused on bold and engaging award-winning films by directors with strong personal vision. It is the smallest of the established sale and production companies, but a home for radical art house films. They work with a small number of films, one or two per year, which are hand-picked and continue work-ing with authors, who are selected early in their careers, through their short films. The best examples are the launching of Swedish director Roy Andersson’s SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR in competition at Cannes – the film won a shared Jury prize and was sold worldwide and Jessica Hausner’s feature debut LOVELY RITA in Un Ceretain Regard.Philippe Bober has been an old friend of the Sarajevo Film Festival, where he has demonstrated his abil-ity to spot different directors who move the boundaries, discovering great filmmakers of tomorrow with “strong handwriting” and “atypical auteur films”.In informal atmosphere, Philippe will let talents in on his view of the role of a creative producer and a sales agent at the market.

BERLINALE TALENTS #13 PRESENTATION13:15 - 14:00 // ASU Open StageThe Berlinale Talents, a creative summit and networking platform for 300 emerging filmmakers from all over the world, takes place parallel to the Berlin International Film Festival. The programme of-fers a huge variety of possibilities for directors, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers, producers, distributors, editors, sound designers, composers, production designers and film critics. In the summit programme, top experts share their experience in master classes or panel discussions. But selected talented filmmakers can also develop and present projects they’re currently working on in project labs, work on advanced projects or case studies in studio programmes or take part in workshops to improve their skills.Bringing together both emerging filmmakers and seasoned film professionals, the Berlinale Talents ena-bles people in the film industry to freshen up their minds, to discover new horizons, to link up with a new generation and to find fellow-filmmakers to collaborate with and to discuss new trends and devel-opments in contemporary cinema.You’ll have a chance to continue what you’ve started in Sarajevo: the Berlinale Talents has invited many emerging filmmakers from Southeastern Europe from 2003-2014, and many high-ranking professionals from the region have come to share insights in their work. Florian Weghorn, representing the Berlinale Talents in Sarajevo, will introduce you to the intricacies of the programme. All your questions can be answered in your session: What to keep in mind when you apply for the Berlinale Talents? How to apply for a project lab? How do Berlin and Sarajevo collaborate? What does the Talents community offer you throughout the year? Florian Weghorn will join talents to answer all questions talents could potentially have. For more information you may also visit our website www.berlinale-talents.de.



Recommended Screening15:00 // Cinema City 4THE FIGHTER, Director: David O. Russell



Love Island – case study by Jasmila Žbanić and Aleksandar Hemon17:00 – 18:30 // ASU Open Stage (D,S)Following the world premier at the 67th Locarno Film Festival, Jasmila Žbanić’s latest film LOVE ISLAND will be shown at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival.This is the first time that Jasmila moved away from the heavy topic of war and remembrance and turned to-wards a comedy with the elements of musical, but also for the first time she shares the credits for writing the script with no less than Aleksandar Hemon, currently the most famous writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Jasmila and Aleksandar will do a case study of the film and talk about their cooperation on the script. Moreo-ver, the participants will get to hear about the challenges of working on a comedy and working with an international cast.

Joining the Joyride •Conversation with Nik Powell17:30 – 18:30 // ASU 3cBefore taking up on the role of the Director of the National Film and Television School, Nik Powell was one of the most prolific producers of British cinema of the last 20 years. He has produced three or more films per year, for many years, and has totaled 45 features in his career. Although he is no longer in the “risky busi-ness”, he carries out the leadership of the school with the same intensity that he brought to producing so many memorable and award-winning pictures including Neil Jordan’s COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984), MONA LISA (1986) and CRYING GAME (1992). Nik’s films have garnered many awards and nominations, including an Oscar, several Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe. The list of his films further includes LITTLE VOICE (1998), CALENDAR GIRLS (2003) and LADIES IN LAVANDER (2004). Since becoming Director of the NFTS in September 2003, Nik has introduced several innovative new programs, keeping the School at the leading edge of film and TV education in the UK. Alongside the day job, he is Chairman and Director of Scala Produc-tions, a company founded together with Stephen Woolley in 1990s, Vice Chairman of the European Film Academy and elected member of several councils and associations in the UK. According to Nik, successful filmmaking is not just about making money, or about any of its spin-offs like glamour, travel or sex. Filmmaking is about risk-taking, in the financial, artistic and entertaining sense. One must be willing to fail in order to succeed. Nik Powell looks at his life first as co-founder of Virgin with Richard Branson and then as a producer of more than 40 award-winning films over the last 25 years. He draws from his experience lessons he has learned that have stood him good stead over the years. While Powells’ approach is light and often humorous the lessons he has learned can help anyone in film or contemplating a career in the film or indeed in any creative business.



Wednesday, August 20Recommended Screening 09:30 // National TheatreBRIDES, Director: Tinatin Kajrishvili

The Role of the Producer – From the Idea all the way to the PosterLecture by Katriel Schory and Simon Perry10:00 – 12:00 // ASU Open StageKatriel Schory, Producer and Executive Director of the Israel Film Fund and Simon Perry, professional with almost 40 years of experience in the international film industry as an independent producer, trade journalist and head of two national film funds in the UK and Ireland, have been the friends of the Festival and the Talents Sarajevo for a long time. Over the years, they have given a number of interesting lectures separately, but this year, they decided to join their forces, experiences and stories as producers and as film funders and give lecture on “the role of producer”.They will share their experiences and how they are reflected in the films they produced and green-lighted. In the course of the lecture, they will deal with all phases of the process, from the development stage, through fund raising/co-production and all the way to the distribution and the release of the film.

Intensive Story Coaching: Working Towards a Better ScriptWorkshop for Talent Scriptwriters with Licia Eminenti, Gyula Gazdag and Olivia Hetreed10:00 – 14:00 // ASU 3b, 3c

Coaching Session on Film CriticismMeeting with Dan Fainaru and Jurica Pavičić10:00 – 14:00 // ASU 3e, BackstageFilm Critics will meet with their mentors Dan Fainaru and Jurica Pavičić to discuss the texts they have been working on, to receive practical advice and professional opinion from an experienced film critic as well as the opinion from their peers. Hopefully, this kind of lively discussion will result in some good texts that will be that will be posted on Tal-entpress.org, FIPRESCI and Festivalists.



Imaginative Ways of Filmmaking ProcessConversation with Annie Silverstein, Moderated by Vanja Kaluđerčić11:30 – 12:30 // Cinema City 2SKUNK by Annie Silverstein, a former student at the University of Texas, won first prize in the Cinéfondation Selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Cinéfondation Section featured 16 student films chosen

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from 1,631 entries from 457 film schools around the world. SKUNK, a 16-minute dramatic narrative, tells the story of 14-year-old Leila, whose dog kills a skunk, leading her to meet a neighborhood boy and form an unlikely bond that spins out of control.The film was the result of good collaboration with her crew, consisting of the University of Texas students, as well as with the generous film community from Austin, Texas. A portion of overall production budget was raised through Kickstarter. Following the screening of her awarded film, in the conversation moderated by Vanja Kaluđerčić, European Shorts Programmer, Annie will discuss her Cinéfondation experience, but also the creative process of making this film.

Single Shot Cinema, What is it? •Encounter with Leonard Retel Helmrich, moderated by Rada Šešić.13:00 – 14:00 // ASU Open Stage (DOP,D,P)Trying to add variety of form and expression to the program, every year, Talents Sarajevo looks forward to collab-orating with the Festival’s Competition Program - Documentary Film and borrowing their most attractive guests. Leonard Retel Helmrich is a multiple award winning fiction and documentary maker, film lecturer at Am-sterdam, Abu Dhabi, New York, well known director and DOP. Apart from being known for his numerous accolades, he invented a specific style called “single shot cinema” and deservedly earned a title of a poet with a camera in his hands.In his own words: “Film language was for a long time quite stuck into a fixed way of storytelling. I think Single Shot Cinema can help to bring it further. One of the things that I now promote is using orbital camera move-ments. You can use orbital camera movement for dramatic reasons and shoot by intuition”. Directors, cinematographers and scriptwriters will certainly enjoy this encounter, moderated by Rada Šešić, Program Selector for Documentary Competition Program.

Imag(in)e Reality Lecture by Tinatin Kajrishvili14:45 – 15:45 // ASU Open Stage (D,S) The debut feature of Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili, BRIDES, will be screened in the Competition Pro-gram. The film brings the story of a woman in her 30s whose partner is serving a 10-year prison sentence, and shows the obstacles she must overcome in order to see him. The story is intense and powerful, and yet never melodramatic, with an impression of total authenticity. Kajrishvili developed the script with her hus-band David Chubinisvhili, since the story is based on their own prison experiences.When it comes to such a personal story, where is the line between reality and imagination? Where does director’s work start if he/she is scriptwriter at the same time?Tinatin will meet with the participants and talk about challenges of directing her own real life story, what she did in order to successfully transfer real-life events into fiction and how she completed the process of going from real to imaginary.

Challenges of Acting Conversation with Melissa Leo15:00 – 16:00 // ASU 3cMelissa Leo is the actress that carved out a career path over the course of three decades of work. She received an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award® and a Broad-cast Film Critics Association Award for her tour de force performance in THE FIGHTER. She also received Oscar® and SAG Award® nominations for her starring role in FROZEN RIVER, for which she won an Independ-ent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and a Spotlight Award from the National Board of Review, among countless other accolades.



Her most recent films include PRISONERS opposite Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; OBLIVION, opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman; and the blockbuster OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Freeman and Aaron Eckhart. She also appeared in Robert Zemeckis’s critically acclaimed drama FLIGHT, with Denzel Washington. Leo’s other notable film work includes CONVICTION with Hilary Swank; THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIA-DES ESTRADA, in which she starred opposite Dwight Yoakam and Tommy Lee Jones, with Jones directing; and HIDE AND SEEK, starring Robert De Niro. Leo also shared a Best Ensemble acting award from the Phoe-nix Film Critics Society for her outstanding work in 21 GRAMS, opposite Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn.On the small screen, Leo was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work in MILDRED PIERCE, the HBO mini-series directed by Todd Haynes in which she starred with Kate Winslet. Leo is also known for her ground-breaking portrayal of Detective Kay Howard on HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS. Her other television credits include the current HBO series TREMÉ, from executive producer David Simon, and a guest starring turn on Louie CK’s F/X comedy LOUIE, in which she gave a hilarious and outrageous performance which People magazine called the best in television all year, and which has recently earned her a second Emmy nod.Leo studied drama at Mount View Theatre School in London, England, and later at the SUNY Purchase Acting Program.This year Melissa Leo is the member of the Competition Program Jury. She will meet with actors participating in Talents Sarajevo for an informal talk about the numerous challenges of their profession.

Intensive Story Coaching: Working Towards a Better ScriptWorkshop for Talent Scriptwriters with Licia Eminenti, Gyula Gazdag and Olivia Hetreed15:00 – 18:00 // ASU 3b


Regional Forum at the Talents SarajevoInternational coproduction – spreading the European coproduction model overseas16:00-18:00 // Hotel Europa (D,P) The Sarajevo Film Festival’s Regional Forum is a major annual conference on the film industry in South-east Europe that presents three days of keynote speeches, round tables, workshops and presentations, delivered by high profile international and regional experts. The Regional Forum is directly linked with the Festivals industry oriented platforms CineLink Coproduc-tion Market, CineLink Work in Progress and the Docu Rough Cut Boutique.Organized in collaboration with Screen International over its past 5 editions, the Forum became a true policy-shaping platform for the whole audio-visual sector in the region. Every year it brings together over 100 key professionals from 15 regional countries, including both the private and public sector to discuss the burning issues in the industry, advocate for, and shape up public policies and network with each other. The most important aspect of its program is that international film experts are invited to take part in panels and discussions, sharing their experience with regional film professionals.This panel comes as Eurimages, the Council of Europe’s co-production fund, looks to expand outside Eu-rope and potentially to grant associate membership status to non-Europeans. Its aim is to make it easier for countries to co-produce through a new convention without having to go to the lengths of striking a bilateral treaty. The Regional Forum will explore how European film-makers can forge international relationships and open up new markets to build on existing co-production partnerships.



Speakers include:Mariana Cerrilla Noriega, IMCINEIsabel Davis, BFIHakim Belabbes, Doha Film InstituteČedomir Kolar, ASAP FilmsSanja Ravlić, Croatian Audiovisual CenterJovan Marjanović, Sarajevo City of Film Fund, Sarajevo Film Festival

Thursday, August 21ACE & EAVE Breakfast9:30 – 11:00 // Hotel Europe TerraceLeading professional training organizations in film business will host a networking breakfast for both emerg-ing and accomplishing film professionals. Les Ateliers du Cinema European (ACE) is a center for training and development geared towards helping independent European producers. Its objective is to guide, advise and offer opportunities to producers to exchange information, establish contacts, and make use of tailor made service. Every year a dozen of pro-ducers are selected to participate in ACE program and construct projects. It also gives producers a chance to experience international festivals through ACE events and meetings. European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) is one of the leading training, development and networking programs for audiovisual producers in Europe. Over the past twenty years, it has delivered a variety of train-ing programs at international, national and regional level. At the center of its activities, there is producers’ workshop in the form of a yearlong professional development program delivered through three week long intensive workshop held in three different European cities for producers who want to develop coproduction network of knowledge, contacts and partners.

Hollywood Inside and Out •Interview with Hawk Koch, moderated by Michele Ohayon11:00 – 12:30 // ASU Open StageHow often do you get a chance to sit down with a man who has collaborated with some of the greatest filmmakers of our time like Sidney Pollack, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger, Warren Beatty, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Wise?Hawk Koch, a veteran movie producer, the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America, started as production assistant in 1965 and working his way to the top, has been intimately involved with the making of over 60 major motion pictures, among them such classics as MARATHON MAN, CHINATOWN, WAYNE’S WORLD, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, HEAVEN CAN WAIT, THE WAY WE WERE, ROSEMARY’S BABY, PRIMAL FEAR. In a interview moderated by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Michele Ohayon, Mr Koch, as someone who was practically “born” on a set, will reflect on his work, lead us into the maze of Hollywood film-making, working on studio and non studio movies, as well as the changing market today. This interview is the continuation of the cooperation between the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and Talents Sarajevo.

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Art of Visual StorytellingConversation with Kutluğ Ataman and Fabian Gasmia12:30 – 14:00 // ASU Open Stage (D,P)A leading contemporary artist and director Kutluğ Ataman joins the Competition Program of the Sarajevo Film Festival with his film THE LAMB, a story about children. The world of children Ataman shows is more amusing than the world of grownups, but sometimes more horrific, in this family drama situated in the Turk-ish countryside.As the introduction to the film, directors and producers will attend the conversation with Kutluğ Ataman and Fabian Gasmia, producer who worked with him on the film. During the conversation, Kutlug will explore his double role of filmmaker and visual artist and an inevitable link between the two – to what extent being a video artist affects his approach as a director, his visual expression and his vision of the relation between nar-rative and visual in the films. On the other hand, Fabian will address more practical side of the collaboration with Kutluğ and talk about technical and financial component which made it possible to bring vision to life.

Recommended ScreeningWELCOME TO SARAJEVOCareer Interview with Michael Winterbottom Moderated by Geoff Andrew15:00 – 18:00 // Cinema Meeting PointTribute to program is dedicated to authors whose uncompromising creative outlooks brought down many taboos in film and society alike, and attracted great attention of both audience and critics.With twenty three feature and documentary films, made in the period from 1992 until 2014, Michael Win-terbottom is not only the most productive European director of today, but the most versatile and the most elusive one. His work ranges from the adaptations of Victorian classics to urban science-fiction dystopia, from thrillers about serial killers to documentaries criticizing “the War on Terror”. Using all these different forms and genres, Winterbottom diligently explores a couple of dominant motives and problems. The retro-spective of his work at the Sarajevo Film Festival is the testimony of that constant exploration. The program Tribute to … Michael Winterbottom will include six films different in terms of genre and form: The earliest Winterbottom’s film that will be shown is his fourth film WELCOME TO SARAJEVO (1997). Although the film did not receive particularly good reviews, it remains extremely important when it comes to analyzing his work in general, because this is the first time that Winterbottom radically confronts facts and fiction, history and its representation. The story about a journalist and an orphan girl, for Winterbottom, is just a pretext for exploring the nature of media representation: how to represent reality at the time of radical social crisis, what is the status of truth in media and artistic representation, what is the specificity of documentary? He posed these questions by mixing feature and documentary/archive material, using the story to show the lack of the readiness of the West to see the war in BiH as a political problem. The question of the relation between reality and its representation permeates 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002), the film about Tony Wilson, TV journalist from Manchester who led the music house Factory Records and (in)famous club Hacienda. Showing Wilson’s cooperation with bends like Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays, film follows the history of British music from punk to rave, but unlike most films that recreate an epoch, it does not offer authentic historical image. In the same year, Winterbottom made IN THIS WORLD (2002), the film about two Pashtun boys, who illegally emigrate from Pakistan to Britain. His film is stylistically homogenous, but nevertheless it created a dilemma regarding its categorization: documentary or feature? Jamal and Enayat (just like other protagonists) are refugees playing themselves, the locations are authentic, as well as the people smuggling route. On one hand, dialogues are written and scenes partially directed, on the other there is improvisation and adaptation to circumstances on the set. THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO (2006, co-directed with Matt Whitecross) is another collage of feature and documentary material. It reopens these questions of form, focusing on the abuse of pris-

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oners whose responsibility had not been established in the most notorious prison of 21.st century. Although 9 SONGS (2004) and EVERYDAY (2012) do not deal with political issues, Winterbottom uses them to explore the paradoxical relationship between real and fictitious. 9 SONGS has become his most controversial film for a sim-ple reason: he dared to pose a question in the sphere of sexuality and its representation on screen. EVERYDAY (2012) is one of the most recent Winterbottom’s experiments: after Ian ends up in prison, his wife Karen tries to make ends meet and raise their four children. The film contains five episodes of prison visits to Ian, shot for a couple of weeks every year over the period of five years. The retrospective of Michael Winterbottom’s films shows to what extent this author, using different genres, unconventional forms and experiments, reminds us that films are not just stories about the world around us, but the experiments of human nature.

TALENTS SARAJEVO PACK&PITCH •Public Pitch16:00 – 17:30 // Hotel Europe

Talents Sarajevo Farewell drink and closing18:30 – 19:00 // Meeting Point CaféAfter the intense program of lectures, discussions, workshops, film screenings, presentations and network-ing, the team of the TS will say goodbye to talents at the farewell drink hoping to meet them again at future festivals as successful filmmakers. Further, during the Farewell Drink, the winner of the Talents Sarajevo Pack and Pitch YAPIMLAB and CINELINK award will be announced.

Recommended Screening 20:00 // National TheatreTHE LAMB, Director: Kutluğ Ataman

Friday, August 22For the participants of Talents Sarajevo who decided to stay longer and work harder, the Talents Sarajevo recommends the following activities.

Meet Production Minds10:00- 10:45 // Hotel EuropeThe Production Minds Platform (PMP) is a cloud-based creative collaboration tool for the pre-production of scripted film/video content, designed specifically with film & TV professionals in mind.

Film literacy – a strategy for audience development11:00- 13.00 // Hotel EuropeThe second panel of the Regional Forum’s MEDIA Conference on ‘Reaching New Audiences for European Films’ is poised to be a lively debate about how to develop the audience of tomorrow through a European-wide film literacy program. It comes as the Bosnian film industry is lobbying for film to be included in the country’s high-school curriculum. The panel is inspired by the report ‘For A Film Education Policy’, written by Xavier Lardoux, deputy executive director of Unifrance.

Programme / Thursday, August 21 / Friday, August 22


Speakers include:Xavier Lardoux, UnifranceMatteo Zacchetti, European CommissionIan Wall, The Film SpaceMadeleine Probst, Europa cinemas, WatershedAsja Makarevic, Talents Sarajevo, Sarajevo Film Festival

Visioning the SoundLecture by Ray Gillon16:15 – 17:15 // Hotel EuropeRay Gillon, sound designer known for his work on PERDITA DURANGO (1997), THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (2001) and TIE ME UP TIE ME DOWN(1986), currently working on MAD MAX 4, will give a lecture on the collabora-tion with directors and how he helps them convey their vision through sound.

Excursion to Cinelink 17:30- 18:30 // Hotel EuropeCineLink, the backbone of the Festival’s Industry Section, is a development and financing platform for care-fully selected feature projects from Southeast Europe suited for European co-production. With an average conversion rate of its selected projects from development to production of over 60% in the past ten years, CineLink has grown into one of the most successful development and financing platforms in Europe. Selec-tion and diversification in development are central to this success, while focus on local productions with international potential, emerging talent and modern cinematic language proved essential to the program’s raising profile in the film industry. Films developed through CineLink are now the part of prestigious festivals’ selections and distribution catalogues around the world. CineLink is open for feature-length film projects with potential for theatrical distribution created by film-makers from Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

Programme / Friday, August 22


ARAGNO, FABRICECinematographer. Collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard on films like FILM SOCIALISME (2010), 3x3D (2013), GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (2014). Worked as architectural draughts-man, lighting specialist and stage manager. Studied directing at DAVI (Département d’Audiovisuel de l’École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, Busigny) and directed short films.

ATAMAN, KUTLUGTurkish filmmaker and contemporary artist. Studied film at the University of California in Los Angeles and at the Sorbonne in Paris. His first feature, SERPENT’S TALE (1994), brought him rapid acclaim, winning him prizes in Istanbul and Ankara for best film, screenplay and director. Besides narrative cinema, Ataman also creates film installa-tions. His filmography includes: LOLA+BILIDIKID (1999), 2 GIRLS (2005), JOURNEY TO THE MOON (2009), THE LAMB (2014).

BEJO, BÉRÉNICEActress. Came to major international recognition with her role as Peppy Miller in the critical and popular hit THE ARTIST (2011). Her performance in THE ARTIST won her César Award and the nominations for the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Oscar. She won Best Actress award at Cannes a year later for THE PAST (2013) by Asghar Farhadi.

BERNAL, GAEL GARCIAActor, director, producermade his debut in Iñárritu’s AMORES PERROS, gained more attention for Alfonso Cuarón’s Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, starred in the title role of Academy Award nominated Carlos Carrera’s EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO and in Walter Salles’ THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES. Some other roles include: Pedro Almodóvar’s LA MALA EDUCACIÓN, Michel Gondry’s THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, Iñárritu’s BABEL, Fernando Meirelles’ BLINDNESS, Jim Jarmusch’s THE LIMITS OF CONTROL. Gael García Bernal founded the film production company Canana with Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz in 2005. They also run the Ambulante documentary film festival. After directing short films, among them a tetralogy in col-laboration with Amnesty International, he directed his first feature DÉFICIT in 2007. He recently starred in Jon Stewart’s biopic ROSEWATER, Pablo Fendrik’s EL ARDOR and finished filming DESIERTO directed by Jonas Cuarón.

BOBER, PHILIPPEFounder of Coproduction Office. As producer, he was involved in the work on the films: EUROPA, THE KINGDOM, BREAKING THE WAVES by Lars von Trier, BATTLE IN HEAVEN by Carlos Reygadas, Roy Andersson’s SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR and YOU THE LIVING, Kornel Mundruzco’s PLEASANT DAYS, JOHANNA and DELTA, Jessica Hausner’s LOVELY RITA and Urlich Seidl’s DOG DAYS, IMPORT, EXPORT and PARADISE TRILOGY.

BRUNNENMEYER, GABRIELESince 2005 Gabriele Brunnenmeyer is working as a free-lanced project and script consult-ant for the Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film, a funding body for first and second films by German young talents. Formerly the Artistic Director of the Co-production Market Con-necting Cottbus, she is working as consultant and trainer for script development, pack-

Experts and Lecturers

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aging and project presentation for independent projects as well as for Talent Campus Berlin and Sarajevo, Meeting on the Bridge, the Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize and others. Since May 2013 she is acting as Head of Studies for Maia Workshops.

CONDEESCU, ADAActress. Made her film acting debut in Florin Serban’s award-winning IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE which premiered at the 2010 Berlinale. She followed this with the roles in Catalin Mitulescu’s LOVERBOY, which was shown in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2011, and Bogdan Mustata’s feature debut WOLF. She gave her most recent performance in Jasmila Žbanić’s LOVE ISLAND.

EMINENTI, LICIAScript analyst. She worked as an administrator for the cinematographic European Co-production Funds, Eurimages, and was in charge of the international sales for Gemini Films. She has been expert/reader for Arte France Cinema and she continues her col-laboration with the Eurimages Funds, as well as with Media Program. Her work in-cludes short films: INTIMISTO, LA PETITE FILLE, FRATERNITAS.

FAINARU, DANFounder and co-editor of the only film magazine in Israel, “Cinematheque”. Reviewed films in the past for Variety and later Moving Pictures. Regularly reviewing for Screen Interna-tional. Israeli correspondent of The International Film Guide, also contributor on Israeli cinema for the Hebrew Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica and the Larousse du Cinema.

FRODON, JEAN-MICHEL Journalist, film critic, writer, professor. Contributed to weekly “Le Point” (1983-1990) and “Le Monde” (1990-2003) and was editorial Director of “Cahiers du cinema” (2003-2009). Writes for the website slate.fr. Member of the Editorial Board and permanent writer for “Caiman Cuadernos de Cine”. Editor in chief of the collaborative website http://artsciencefactory.fr. Teaches at Sciences Po Paris (Political Sciences Institute), the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and FilmFactory, the cinema school created by Bela Tarr in Sarajevo.

GASMIA, FABIANProducer. Before studying production at the film school in Potsdam, Fabian worked in commercials. With his first company Leofilm he produced several award winning shorts. The participation in the Masterclass Ludwigsburg/ Paris laid the basis for in-ternational filmmaking. With his production company DATAiLFILM, committed to tell-ing original, moving stories from all over the world for international audience, among other films, he produced: PRAIA DO FUTURO (2014), THE LAMB (2014), THE SPECIAL NEED (2013), WITH MOM (2013), SHARQIYA (2012).

GAZDAG, GYULAFilm and theatre director and distinguished professor at UCLA, Artistic Director of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab and one of the mentors at the Berlinale Script Station.His feature films include A HUNGARIAN FAIRY TALE, LOST ILLUSIONS, SINGING ON THE TREADMILL, among others, his documentaries include A POET ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE, PACKAGE TOUR, THE BANQUET and THE RESOLUTION.

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HAZANAVICIUS, MICHELFrench film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor best known for his 2011 film THE ARTIST, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Acad-emy Awards and the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film paro-dies OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES (2006) and OSS 117: LOST IN RIO (2009). His latest film THE SEARCH was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in the main com-petition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

HELMRICH, LEONARD RETELDutch author, director and cinematographer. Worked on fiction and documentaries. His films received highest honors at major festivals such as Sundance and IDFA Amsterdam. Teaches cinema in Amsterdam, Abu Dhabi, New York, gives master classes around the world. His trilogy, shot in Indonesia: EYE OF THE DAY, SHAPE OF THE MOON, POSITION AMONG THE STARS drew attention of the world documentary scene to his unique, po-etic and cinematically exciting approach.

HEMON, ALEKSANDARBosnian-American fiction writer, essayist and critic. Author of five books: The Book of My Lives (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013); Love and Obstacles: Sto-ries (New York: Riverhead Books, 2009); The Lazarus Project: A Novel (New York: Riv-erhead Books, 2008), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Na-tional Book Critics Circle Awards, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book and New York magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year; Nowhere Man (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002), also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno: Stories (New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2000). Together with Jasmila Žbanić, he co-wrote the script for her latest film LOVE ISLAND.

HETREED, OLIVIAOlivia Hetreed wrote a series of highly acclaimed family films for television includ-ing THE TREASURE SEEKERS and THE CANTERVILLE GHOST. She adapted the hit film GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING from Tracy Chevalier’s best-selling novel and wrote the screenplay for WUTHERING HEIGHTS, directed by Andrea Arnold. Olivia is also an ex-perienced mentor to developing screenwriters.

KAJRISHVILI, TINATINGeorgian director and producer. Directed several short films OPUS 1, MYSTERIES. At-tended IFASC workshop for producers and, in 2009, was selected to participate at EAVE as a producer. Since then she has produced several short films, documentaries and feature film including: short films NEST (Dir: T. Bziava) and BLACK MULBERRY (Dir: G. Razmadze) shown at Sundance, Cork, Palm Spring, Hong Kong film festivals, feature film PARAJANOV (Dir: S. Avedikian, O. Fetisova) premiered at Karlovy Vary IFF. BRIDES is the first feature film that she both produced and directed.

KELEMEN, FREDCinematographer, director, producer. Has made a number of films and videos as director and collaborated as cinematographer with several film directors like Joseph Pitchhadze (SWEETS, Israel 2013), Béla Tarr (JOURNEY TO THE PLAIN, Hungary 1995, THE MAN FROM LONDON, Hungary/France/Germany 2007, THE TURIN HORSE, Hungary, France, USA, Germany 2011 ), Rudolf Thome (THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE, Germany 2006), Gariné Torossian (STONE, TIME, TOUCH, Canada/Armenia 2005) a.o. He has worked as an associate professor and has


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given master classes and lectures at a number of institutions all over the world. With his film production company Kino Kombat Filmmanufactur he produced his film KRISANA/FALLEN and he produced or co-produced the films by a number of different directors.

KOCH, HAWKProducer. Hawk Koch, the former President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America, is a veteran movie producer who has been intimately involved with the making of more than 50 major motion pictures. Among them, such classics as MARATHON MAN, CHINATOWN, WAYNE’S WORLD, PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED, HEAVEN CAN WAIT, AND ROSEMARY’S BABY. His colleagues and collaborators include many of the greatest filmmakers of all-time--Sidney Pollack, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger, Warren Beatty, Francis Ford Coppola and Robert Wise.

LEIGH, MIKEDirector. A seven-time Oscar nominee and the winner of three BAFTAs and many other film awards, such as the Best Director Award at the 1993 Cannes film Festival for NAKED, the 1996 Palme d’Or for SECRETS AND LIES and the Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festi-val for VERA DRAKE. His latest film MR. TURNER was nominated for the 2014 Palme d’Or.

LEO, MELISSAActress. Earned several awards, including the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in THE FIGHTER (2010). Before that, Leo received critical acclaim and national attention for her performance in FROZEN RIVER (2008). Her most recent films include PRISONERS (2013), OBLIVION (2013) and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (2013). Other notable work includes: CONVICTION (2010), THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (2005), HIDE AND SEEK (2005), 21 GRAMS (2003), as well as HBO’s MILDRED PIERCE (2011) and TREMÉ (2013).

LUČEV, LEONActor best known for his performance in films ON THE PATH, STORM, GRBAVICA, HOW THE WAR STARTED ON MY ISLAND, WHAT’S A MAN WITHOUT A MUSTACHE and WIT-NESSES. At the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Actor for his performance in BUICK RIVIERA by Goran Rušinović. In the past 10 years he has participated in many Art of Acting workshops (Michael Chekov, Lee Strasberg, Jerzy Grotowski, clowns, psychodrama, bufons) and is also a member of a research project Potentials of Acting. Recently starred in CIRCLES by Srdan Golubović and FOR THOSE WHO CAN TELL NO TALES and LOVE ISLAND by Jasmila Žbanić.

MARJANOVIĆ, JOVANProducer. Member of the SFF board and the head of its Industry section, also a film producer. He has been the National Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Eu-rimages since 2006 and is a Member of the Board of Management of the Film Fund Sarajevo. Jovan is also one of the advisors to the Torino and Jerusalem film labs. He teaches production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

MUELLER, MARCODirector/writer of documentaries about cinema. Film critic/historian. Professor of Styles and Techniques of Cinema (Università della Svizzera Italiana). Started as festival manu-facturer with “Ombre elettriche” (Turin 1981, largest-scale retrospective of Chinese cin-

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ema). Was subsequently director of five festivals: Pesaro (1982-1989), Rotterdam (1989-1991), Locarno (1992-2000), Venice (2004 to 2011), Rome (2012-2014). He produced and co-produced over 15 features (from China, Bosnia, Turkey, Iran, Russia and Central Asia, Brazil, Thailand, Italy, Switzerland).

MUNDRUCZÓ, KORNÉLDirector of PLEASANT DAYS, awarded with the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Int.Film Fes-tival 2002 and JOHANNA – a filmic opera adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc, presented in Un Certain Regard in 2005. DELTA, his third feature film won the FIPRESCI Critics’ Award in Cannes 2008 and TENDER SON was shown in the Official Selection of Cannes 2010. His last film WHITE GOD won the Prize Un Certain Regard at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

PAVIČIĆ, JURICAWriter, columnist and film critic. Has worked as a film critic and journalist for different Croatian newspapers. His newspaper essays on Croatian politics, society and culture are collected in books “News from Liliput” (2001), “Split by Night” (2004), and “New News from Liliput” (2011). Pavičić’s screenplay for WITNESSES, Vinko Brešan’s 2003 film, won the Golden Arena for Best Screenplay in the 2003 Pula Film Festival. The screenplay, co-written with Živko Zalar, is based on Pavičić’s debut novel “Plaster Sheep” (1997). His works include novels: “A Sunday Friend” (2000), “Minute 88” (2002), “Her Mother’s House” (2005), “A Little Red Riding Hood” (2006); play “Poisoner” (2000) and short story collection “Highway Control” (2008).

PERRY, SIMONHas had almost 40 years of experience in the international film industry, as an inde-pendent producer, as a trade journalist, and as head of two national film funds, in the UK and Ireland.

POWELL, NIKProducer. Co-founder of Palace Pictures and Scala Productions. Produced many award-ed films such as Neil Jordan’s COMPANY OF WOLVES, MONA LISA and THE CRYING GAME, LITTLE VOICE, CALENDER GIRLS AND LADIES IN LAVANDER.

SCHORY, KATRIELExecutive Director of the Israel Film Fund. His company Belfilms Ltd produced over 200 films including award winning feature films, documentaries and TV dramas. He is Associate Producer and Line Producer of the award winning feature film Beyond The Wall, nominated for Best Foreign Film, Academy Award in 1985.

SILVERSTEIN, ANNIE A filmmaker and media educator based in Austin Texas. Annie directed the feature documentary MARCH POINT (PBS’ Independent Lens 2008), and is co-Founder of Long-house Media, an indigenous media arts & education non-profit organization located in Seattle, WA. She produced/directed the short documentary NIGHT AT THE DANCE (2011), wrote and directed her first fiction short SPARK (2012), which has screened at numerous film festivals and received the prestigious Jury Award for Best Texas Short at the 2012 SXSW. Her second fiction short SKUNK (2014) won first place in the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation.


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ŠTAKA, ANDREADirector, producer. Her films HOTEL BELGRAD (1998) and YUGODIVAS (2000) brought her great recognition at film festivals such as Locarno and Sundance and won several awards. Both films were nominated for Best Film at the Swiss Film Awards and theatri-cally released in Switzerland. In 2005 Andrea Štaka received a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant. FRAULEIN (2006), her first feature film, won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, the Heart of Sarajevo and the Swiss Film Award for Best Script. In 2007 An-drea Štaka founded Okofilm Productions in Zurich together with director and producer Thomas Imbach and produced DAY IS DONE (2011) and MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS (2013). She is a member of the European Film Academy. Her latest film CURE – THE LIFE OF AN-OTHER is included in the Competition Program of the 20th SFF.

UKWUOMA, SELINAFreelance script editor and consultant with experience as a development executive for EON Screenwriters’ Workshop and for Cuba Pictures - the production arm of Curtis Brown. She has worked with emerging and established writers alike on a diverse range of film and television projects at all budget levels and stages of development. Works as a visiting lecturer in screenwriting at the National Film and Television School, the Uni-versity of Westminster, and at the London Film School and has, since 2008, been a mentor at the Berlinale Talent Campus.

WEGHORN, FLORIANFlorian Weghorn is programme manager of Berlinale Talents. Weghorn studied thea-tre, film and television studies at the University of Cologne. After receiving an M.A. in film studies in 2002, he went on to work for the Berlinale, first as an assistant and from 2008 to 2014 as The Deputy Head of Generation. He is a member of the selection committee for the Berlinale’s Competition and also serves on the jury for the children’s film fund of the BKM (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).

WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAELDirector. One of the most prolific and critically acclaimed directors in the world. His films include BUTTERFLY KISS (1995), JUDE (1996), WELCOME TO SARAJEVO (1997), I WANT YOU (1998), WONDERLAND (1999), THE CLAIM (2000), 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE (2002), IN THIS WORLD (2002), CODE 46 (2003), 9 SONGS (2004), A COCK AND BULL STORY (2005), ROAD TO GUANTA-NAMO (2006), A MIGHTY HEART (2007), GENOVA (2008), THE SHOCK DOCTRINE (2009), THE KILLER INSIDE ME (2010), THE TRIP (2010), TRISHNA (2011), THE TRIP TO ITALY (2014).

ZWIRNER, ANKEProducer. Has a broad range of hands-on experience in the field of production. She worked at the state bank of Brandenburg in the department of film financing and later as a researcher/lecturer at the HFF in Potsdam-Babelsberg, the oldest and largest film school in Germany. She was an advisor for film funding at the medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. After having received a call to teach as a visiting professor at the film school at Loyola Marymount University, she went to Los Angeles and that exchange was awarded with one of the rare and prestigious senior Fulbright scholarships.

ŽBANIĆ, JASMILADirector. Best known for her film GRBAVICA, which won the Golden Bear for the best film, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2006. Her filmography also includes LOVE ISLAND (2014), FOR THOSE WHO CAN TELL NO TALES (2013), ON THE ROAD (2010).

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ANDREW, GEOFFSenior Film Programmer at BFI Southbank, London. Also, the author of numerous books on the cinema, including monographs on Nicholas Ray, Abbas Kiarostami and Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy. For many years he was the Film Editor of Time Out, he has been published in many anthologies and journals, and he is a regular contribu-tor to Sight & Sound. He has provided commentaries and introductions to a number of DVDs, and he regularly delivers lectures on film and the arts at BFI Southbank and London’s National Gallery. In 2009 the French Ministry of Culture made him a Cheva-lier of the Order of Arts and Letters.

GOODRIDGE, MIKECEO of Protagonist Pictures and one of the programmers of Sarajevo Film Festival’s Ki-noscope program. Previously, he was editor of trade publication Screen International. Spent 19 years at Screen, including 12 years as the Los Angeles-based US editor.

KALUĐERČIĆ, VANJASFF’S European Shorts Programmer. Worked for Coproduction Office, in charge of acquisitions and short film catalogue. She has contributed to Isola Cinema – a film festival dedicated to African, Asian, Latin American and Eastern European cinema; In-ternational Documentary Festival of Zagreb – ZagrebDox Pro, Motovun Film Festival and World Festival of Animated Films – Animafest.

OHAYON, MICHELEAcademy award nominated filmmaker, Michele Ohayon directed the critically acclaimed feature documentaries: IT WAS A WONDERFUL LIFE (1987), COLORS STRAIGHT UP (1997), COWBOY DEL AMOR (2005), STEAL A PENCIL FOR ME (2007), S.O.S/STATE OF SECURITY (2011). Her latest film SOLAR ROADWAYS (2013) opened at the Tribeca film festival as part of the Focus Forward series. In 2014, Michele was asked by the Academy to produce the Tribute film for Angelina’s Jolie’s Humanitarian Governors award. Michele Is the CEO of LA based Kavana Entertainment, and a consultant on screenwriting, documentary filmmaking and distribution, feature packaging and financing as well as a frequent Festival Juror and moderator. Michèle is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, and the Writers Guild os America. She is also a founding board member of Cinewomen.

ŠEŠIĆ, RADARada Šešić is a filmmaker, consultant and lecture. Employed as a mentor at the Master of Film Studies at the Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam. Specialized in Eastern European and South Asian cinema. Programmer and advisor of IDFA and IFFR Rotter-dam as well as member of the selection committee of the Hubert Bals Fund and Jan Vrijman Fund. Rada writes for various international film magazines and she is a mentor at various film workshop.

Moderators

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Notes

Impressum

Team 2014

PROJECT MANAGERS:Asja Makarević, Ivana Pekušić

SELECTION:Amra Bakšić Čamo, Elma Tataragić, Fred Kelemen, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Izeta Građević, Jovan Marjanović, Nebojša Jovanović

TALENT ADMINISTRATION AND GUEST MANAGEMENT: Linda Johansson, Nadina Habibović

TECHNICAL COORDINATOR: Ahmed Alić

LOCATION MANAGER (ASU): Rusmir Efendić

FIELD TECHNICIANS: Amer Alić, Amer Ćosović, Muhamed El-Mordeha

PACK&PITCH COORDINATOR: Harun Oglečevac

SCRIPT WORKSHOP COORDINATOR: Valerie Snehotta

FILM CRITICS WORKSHOP COORDINATOR: Jakub Salihović

CINEMATOGRAPHERS WORKSHOP COORDINATOR: Benjamin Čengić

INFO DESK: Nejra Branković, Adna Aličić, Nataša Hemon, Kenan Sadović

VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Aziz Čeho

NOTEBOOK: Nebojša Jovanović, Ivana Kalember, Asja Makarević

Imprint:

DOCUMENTATION:TS TEAM

TRANSLATION AND PROOFREADING:Ivana Kalember, Asja Makarević

GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DTP:BOOM Produkcija

PRINT:BLICDRUK

PRINT RUN:500


“Imagine: Looking Long and Hard”August 16 - 21, 2014

70 Talents: 15 directors; 14 scriptwriters; 15 actors; 16 producers; 5 cinematographers; 5 film critics

6 fields of work: directors, scriptwriters, actors, producers, cinematographers and film critics

15 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey

40 experts

55 lectures, panels, workshops, case studies, presentations, screenings and events

A very important segment of the Talents Sarajevo platform is also its virtual dimension – the Online Talent Database.The pool of Talents, which will be growing each year, serves primarily as a promotional and networking tool. The profiles of the participants display their general info and video samples of work.

sff.baberlinale-talents.de/bt/find/talent

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