The Sarajevo International Film Festival has unveiled the nominees for its second annual TV awards with 17 series from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Slovenia represented across the nominees.
The local series up for awards are: Advokado, Besa 2, Block 27, Black Wedding, Strange Kind of Loves, Dolina rož, Awake, Lenin’s Park, Crazy, Confused, Normal, Underneath 2, Mrkomir I, Bad Blood, The Last Socialist Artefact, United Brothers, Killers of My Father 5, The Silence and Time of Evil.
This year, the award categories have expanded to include drama series and comedy and winners will be honored with the fest’s lauded Heart of Sarajevo award, a prize usually given to the festival’s competition winner.
The Sarajevo Film Festival established the awards for TV series last year, with the aim of promoting and showcasing the highest quality regional television series in the past 12 months to promote their international placement.
The local series up for awards are: Advokado, Besa 2, Block 27, Black Wedding, Strange Kind of Loves, Dolina rož, Awake, Lenin’s Park, Crazy, Confused, Normal, Underneath 2, Mrkomir I, Bad Blood, The Last Socialist Artefact, United Brothers, Killers of My Father 5, The Silence and Time of Evil.
This year, the award categories have expanded to include drama series and comedy and winners will be honored with the fest’s lauded Heart of Sarajevo award, a prize usually given to the festival’s competition winner.
The Sarajevo Film Festival established the awards for TV series last year, with the aim of promoting and showcasing the highest quality regional television series in the past 12 months to promote their international placement.
- 6/10/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry Potter‘s Arben Bajraktaraj and A Good Day To Die Hard‘s Rasa Bukvic are among the stars to sign up to Tony Jordan’s Gomorrah-esque Eastern European drama Besa.
Bajraktaraj, who also starred in Taken, and Bukvic, who was in The Transporter, will be joined in the 12-part drama by Croatian actor Lana Baric (You Carry Me) and Sebastian Cavazza (Short Circuits).
The series, which is currently in production across south-Eastern Europe, was commissioned by Eastern European broadcast group Antenna and will air on Prva in Serbia, Planet TV in Slovenia and Rtl in Croatia. It is directed by Dusan Lazarevic, a Serbian director who is now based in the UK and has worked on episodes of Misfits and Death In Paradise.
It will tell the story of the Albanian mafia – one of the most secretive and most feared criminal networks in the world. The story centers on Belgrade small businessman Uros,...
Bajraktaraj, who also starred in Taken, and Bukvic, who was in The Transporter, will be joined in the 12-part drama by Croatian actor Lana Baric (You Carry Me) and Sebastian Cavazza (Short Circuits).
The series, which is currently in production across south-Eastern Europe, was commissioned by Eastern European broadcast group Antenna and will air on Prva in Serbia, Planet TV in Slovenia and Rtl in Croatia. It is directed by Dusan Lazarevic, a Serbian director who is now based in the UK and has worked on episodes of Misfits and Death In Paradise.
It will tell the story of the Albanian mafia – one of the most secretive and most feared criminal networks in the world. The story centers on Belgrade small businessman Uros,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ederlezi Rising won five prizes at Belgrade’s Fest earlier this year.
Arclight Films has closed sales on Serbian sci-fi thriller Ederlezi Rising to My Way Films for Hong Kong and Creative Century for Taiwan.
Directed by Lazar Bodroza, the film follows an astronaut who is sent on a long space flight to a distant planet accompanied by a female android. The film won five prizes including best film, best director and best actor (Sebastian Cavazza) at Belgrade’s Fest International Film Festival earlier this year.
Arclight is also launching sales on Liang Ting’s family action adventure Year Of The Dogs,...
Arclight Films has closed sales on Serbian sci-fi thriller Ederlezi Rising to My Way Films for Hong Kong and Creative Century for Taiwan.
Directed by Lazar Bodroza, the film follows an astronaut who is sent on a long space flight to a distant planet accompanied by a female android. The film won five prizes including best film, best director and best actor (Sebastian Cavazza) at Belgrade’s Fest International Film Festival earlier this year.
Arclight is also launching sales on Liang Ting’s family action adventure Year Of The Dogs,...
- 3/20/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Also handling sales on Tribeca 2017 title Tilt.
Arclight Films has boarded sales on sci-fi romance Ederlezi Rising and mind-bending thriller Tilt, both of which are being made available to Efm buyers for the first time.
Ederlezi Rising screens in the market and is directed by Lazar Bodroza from a screenplay by Dimitrije Vojnov about a cosmonaut who falls for a female android on board a space station.
Sebastian Cavazza and American porn star Stoya play the leads. Aleksandar Protic, Jonathan English and the Film Center Serbia produce, and Arclight represents worldwide rights.
Arclight Films CEO Gary Hamilton’s team are also handling international sales on Tilt, the Tribeca 2017 premiere and Fantasia Film Festival selection that The Orchard will distribute in North America later this year.
Kasra Farahani directs and co-wrote with Jason O’Leary. The film follows an unemployed documentary filmmaker whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in the months after his wife becomes pregnant.
Joseph Cross, Alexia Rasmussen, [link...
Arclight Films has boarded sales on sci-fi romance Ederlezi Rising and mind-bending thriller Tilt, both of which are being made available to Efm buyers for the first time.
Ederlezi Rising screens in the market and is directed by Lazar Bodroza from a screenplay by Dimitrije Vojnov about a cosmonaut who falls for a female android on board a space station.
Sebastian Cavazza and American porn star Stoya play the leads. Aleksandar Protic, Jonathan English and the Film Center Serbia produce, and Arclight represents worldwide rights.
Arclight Films CEO Gary Hamilton’s team are also handling international sales on Tilt, the Tribeca 2017 premiere and Fantasia Film Festival selection that The Orchard will distribute in North America later this year.
Kasra Farahani directs and co-wrote with Jason O’Leary. The film follows an unemployed documentary filmmaker whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in the months after his wife becomes pregnant.
Joseph Cross, Alexia Rasmussen, [link...
- 2/17/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Artsploitation Films has just launched the release of Killbillies. This is Slovenia's first horror feature. And, the film is heavily influenced by titles like The Hills Have Eyes (1977) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). A review for this title is available here, on 28Dla: A Killbillies Review on 28Dla. As well, the film stars: Nina Ivanisin, Lotos Sparovec, Sebastian Cavazza and Nika Rozman. To celebrate the Killbillies launch, three new stills are hosted here. The stills show some of the lighter and darker moments of the film. In an early scene, Zina (Ivanisin) sits with a few of her friends, in a cavern-like bar. There is little time for laughter, though. In a later scene, a photographer's assistant is tortured by two deformed hillbillies. This is a gruesome film. As well, Zina is shown again. This time, she is trying to escape the hillbillie's hovel. Beaten and bruised, there is little hope of a way out.
- 10/26/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
*full disclosure: minor spoilers are here. Director/writer: Tomaz Gorkic. Cast: Nina Ivanisin, Lotos Sparovec, Nika Rozman and Sebastian Cavazza. Killbillies is the first horror film from the country of Slovenia. Located in Eastern Europe, this locale offers a very rural backdrop, where cannibals can kill again and again. An Artsploitation Films' release, this title, which was scheduled to release in October, is already available on Youtube. And, gorehounds will want to take a look at this title as Killbillies offers many creative blood effects. But, horror vets' may have seen this film before. Director Tomaz Gorkic has been heavily influenced by Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; many scenes from this earlier title are replayed here. Still, Killbillies offers a lot of terror, in the gorgeous backdrop of Slovenia. The film begins with a photographer and his two models. They setup a shoot, in the Slovenian countryside.
- 9/27/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Holy Strokes!: Turk’s Debut Loses Its Appetite
Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told from thee separate points of view from an overlapping timeline. Turk, who has worked as assistant director to Danis Tanovic and Maja Weiss, shows an intriguing knack for establishing a broody foreboding, but his overlapping ellipses lead to an underwhelming conclusion that feels disappointingly contrived.
On a seemingly normal day, Matej (Sebastian Cavazza) suddenly begins receiving phone calls from his estranged father, Janez (Boris Cavazza) whom he hasn’t spoken with in over a decade. Reluctantly, he finally answers his phone and finds that his younger brother Robert, who had been living with his parents in the Slovenian countryside, had recently traveled to Turin and has seemingly disappeared. Janez needs Matej’s help...
Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told from thee separate points of view from an overlapping timeline. Turk, who has worked as assistant director to Danis Tanovic and Maja Weiss, shows an intriguing knack for establishing a broody foreboding, but his overlapping ellipses lead to an underwhelming conclusion that feels disappointingly contrived.
On a seemingly normal day, Matej (Sebastian Cavazza) suddenly begins receiving phone calls from his estranged father, Janez (Boris Cavazza) whom he hasn’t spoken with in over a decade. Reluctantly, he finally answers his phone and finds that his younger brother Robert, who had been living with his parents in the Slovenian countryside, had recently traveled to Turin and has seemingly disappeared. Janez needs Matej’s help...
- 4/22/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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