John Turturro is to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia, which runs from Aug. 16 to 23. The award is in recognition of his contribution to the film industry and his talent as an actor, director and screenwriter.
Jovan Marjanović, director of Sarajevo Film Festival, said: “With a career spanning over four decades, he has delivered unforgettable performances in a diverse range of roles. His dedication to his craft, versatility, and ability to bring depth and authenticity to every character he embodies have made him a joy to look at every time he enters the scene.”
Turturro studied at Suny New Paltz and the Yale School of Drama. He has worked with a number of acclaimed filmmakers, appearing in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Color of Money,” Robert Redford’s “Quiz Show,” Francesco Rosi’s “La Tregua,...
Jovan Marjanović, director of Sarajevo Film Festival, said: “With a career spanning over four decades, he has delivered unforgettable performances in a diverse range of roles. His dedication to his craft, versatility, and ability to bring depth and authenticity to every character he embodies have made him a joy to look at every time he enters the scene.”
Turturro studied at Suny New Paltz and the Yale School of Drama. He has worked with a number of acclaimed filmmakers, appearing in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever,” Martin Scorsese’s “The Color of Money,” Robert Redford’s “Quiz Show,” Francesco Rosi’s “La Tregua,...
- 8/1/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Among the cancelled events was a masterclass with Lynne Ramsay, which the festival is planning to rearrange.
The Sarajevo film festival has cancelled all screenings and public events today (August 16) as Bosnia and Herzegovina enters a day of mourning for the victims of a high-profile triple murder.
On Friday, Nermin Sulejmanovic killed his partner while broadcasting the crime on Instagram, before killing two other people and himself. The crime has shocked the country with demonstrations in various cities, including Sarajevo, taking place earlier this week.
In a statement, the festival said all previously announced public events were cancelled as a...
The Sarajevo film festival has cancelled all screenings and public events today (August 16) as Bosnia and Herzegovina enters a day of mourning for the victims of a high-profile triple murder.
On Friday, Nermin Sulejmanovic killed his partner while broadcasting the crime on Instagram, before killing two other people and himself. The crime has shocked the country with demonstrations in various cities, including Sarajevo, taking place earlier this week.
In a statement, the festival said all previously announced public events were cancelled as a...
- 8/16/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The Sarajevo Film Festival has canceled all screenings and all but one of its events on Wednesday after the Bosnia and Herzegovina government declared it to be a “Day of Mourning” following three murders committed in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradačac on Friday.
The perpetrator, Nermin Sulejmanovic, a bodybuilder, reportedly livestreamed the murder of his first victim, his former wife Nizama Hećimović, on Instagram. He then killed a man and his son, and injured a further three people, before committing suicide. Officials later said some 12,000 people watched the slaying live, and the video received 126 likes.
The festival had previously said it would cancel social events but continue with screenings, workshops, lectures and presentations on Wednesday, but it has now shut down its activities almost entirely.
The only public event to take place on Wednesday is a panel titled “Femicide in Film, Television and New Media,” which will discuss the...
The perpetrator, Nermin Sulejmanovic, a bodybuilder, reportedly livestreamed the murder of his first victim, his former wife Nizama Hećimović, on Instagram. He then killed a man and his son, and injured a further three people, before committing suicide. Officials later said some 12,000 people watched the slaying live, and the video received 126 likes.
The festival had previously said it would cancel social events but continue with screenings, workshops, lectures and presentations on Wednesday, but it has now shut down its activities almost entirely.
The only public event to take place on Wednesday is a panel titled “Femicide in Film, Television and New Media,” which will discuss the...
- 8/16/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Sarajevo Film Festival canceled all screenings and social events on Wednesday, August 16, after the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared a day of mourning following a triple murder-suicide that has shocked the country.
The festival, which runs through August 18, suspended its program for the day. The festival also suspended screenings in partner cities Mostar and Tuzla. In place of screenings, organizers will hold a public discussion on the topic of “Femicide in Film, Television, and New Media” at the festival square in downtown Sarajevo.
The discussion will look at artistic and media representations of violence against women and will include filmmakers who have addressed the theme through their own work and social engagement, among them Aida Begić, Vanja Juranić, Kumjana Novakova, director Ademir Kenović, and the actress Nadine Mičić. Nebojša Jovanović will moderate the talk.
“We will observe the Day of Mourning with dignity, sending a message of Solidarity...
The festival, which runs through August 18, suspended its program for the day. The festival also suspended screenings in partner cities Mostar and Tuzla. In place of screenings, organizers will hold a public discussion on the topic of “Femicide in Film, Television, and New Media” at the festival square in downtown Sarajevo.
The discussion will look at artistic and media representations of violence against women and will include filmmakers who have addressed the theme through their own work and social engagement, among them Aida Begić, Vanja Juranić, Kumjana Novakova, director Ademir Kenović, and the actress Nadine Mičić. Nebojša Jovanović will moderate the talk.
“We will observe the Day of Mourning with dignity, sending a message of Solidarity...
- 8/16/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film is inspired by stolen baby scandal that rocked Serbia.
Cercamon has acquired world sales rights for Serbian director Miroslav Terzic’s abducted baby drama Stitches (Šavovi), ahead of its premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section.
The drama is inspired by a recent, real-life stolen baby scandal in Serbia in which hundreds of parents, who were told their babies had died shortly after birth, later claimed they had been stolen.
Serbian cinema and TV star Snežana Bogdanović, who made her big screen debut at the Berlinale in 1989 in Ademir Kenovic’s drama Kuduz, returns 30 years later in the role of...
Cercamon has acquired world sales rights for Serbian director Miroslav Terzic’s abducted baby drama Stitches (Šavovi), ahead of its premiere in Berlin’s Panorama section.
The drama is inspired by a recent, real-life stolen baby scandal in Serbia in which hundreds of parents, who were told their babies had died shortly after birth, later claimed they had been stolen.
Serbian cinema and TV star Snežana Bogdanović, who made her big screen debut at the Berlinale in 1989 in Ademir Kenovic’s drama Kuduz, returns 30 years later in the role of...
- 2/6/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Benelux is the regional focus for Trieste’s fourth edition of its When East Meets West (Wemw) co-production forum (January 20-22, 2014) being held during the Trieste Film Festival.
Eight of the 22 projects being presented in public pitches at the forum, which runs Jan 20-22, will be projects from the Benelux countries - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - looking for potential co-producers and distributors from Italy or Eastern Europe.
They include new projects from Luxembourg’s Bady Minck, 1313 Dante’s Emperor, and The Netherlands’ David Verbeek, Full Contact, as well as the Belgian documentary film-makers Daniel Lambo, Eternal Silence, and Gilles Coton, Meet Enver Hadri.
Wemw’s project manager Alessandro Gropplero told ScreenDaily that this year’s call for projects had attracted a record 200 entries - 23 from the Benelux, 32 from Italy and 145 from Eastern Europe - with 140 fiction film projects and 60 documentary projects.
An international jury then selected 10 fiction and 12 documentary projects in development to be pitched...
Eight of the 22 projects being presented in public pitches at the forum, which runs Jan 20-22, will be projects from the Benelux countries - Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg - looking for potential co-producers and distributors from Italy or Eastern Europe.
They include new projects from Luxembourg’s Bady Minck, 1313 Dante’s Emperor, and The Netherlands’ David Verbeek, Full Contact, as well as the Belgian documentary film-makers Daniel Lambo, Eternal Silence, and Gilles Coton, Meet Enver Hadri.
Wemw’s project manager Alessandro Gropplero told ScreenDaily that this year’s call for projects had attracted a record 200 entries - 23 from the Benelux, 32 from Italy and 145 from Eastern Europe - with 140 fiction film projects and 60 documentary projects.
An international jury then selected 10 fiction and 12 documentary projects in development to be pitched...
- 12/19/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Today, July 11, is the memorial day for the 11,000 victims of war killed during the four year siege of Sarajevo. The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the Serbian Republic and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian War. The siege lasted three times longer than the Siege of Stalingrad and a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad.
"We used that tunnel to transfer the rushes during the end of the war for the shooting of Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenovic!" -- Sylvain Bursztehn
This legendary film festival began during the seige and served as a part of the spiritual resistance put up by the brave people of the town of some 400,000 people. This 18th edition opened with Angelina Jolie presenting her Bosnian war film In the Land of Blood and Honey.
Branko Lustig, two-time Academy Award Winner for Best Picture spoke about the early origins of Schindler's List. After asking whether he should speak in Croatian or Bosnian, he settled on English stating, "I am not Angelina Jolie. I am not George Clooney. You have an old Jew in front of you." This Croatian Jewish survlivor of Auschwitz made a cameo appearance as the Maitre D of an exclusive SS nightclub in the film. Leopold Federberg, the owner of a leather goods shop near the Beverly Wilshire Hotel told the first story of Schindler which MGM originally optioned and developed long before Universal acquired it for Steven Spielberg. He appeared in the film as "Poldi". The reason the child was in red, the only colored element in the black and white film, was as a symbol of all the children who were murdered in the Shoah. Lustig bore witness to the murder and hoped this film would be instrumental in eliminating such wars. However, he was proven wrong as he witnessed the second genocide in his lifetime, that of the Bosnian Muslims by the Serbians, an equally horrendous event.
Today in Sarajevo all programs centered around the genocide.
Six years ago the festival added a Talent Campus, the only other one in Europe (there are also Talent Campuses (Campi?) in Tokyo, Guadalajrara and Buenos Aires). I am honored to have been invited here to discuss selected shorts with their producers and directors as a part of the strategic planning for future screenings and future careers for the flmmakers.
We are also seeing films such as Los Salvajes from Argentina, I, Anna starring Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne and many films from the area of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and other Balkan nations. Sarajevo, btw, was also the site of the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a terrorist which set off World War I and was home to Sephardic Jews driven from Spain during the Inquisition. It is home to Muslims, Jews, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics.
This trip marks the last of the summer for us which began in Cannes. We've gone from Cannes to Nice, Clug (Transylvania Film Festival), Berlin (Jewish Film Festifal), Paris (Champs Elysees Film Festival), Moscow and St. Petersburg (Doors), Paris again and now Sarajevo.
What stands out most from all these trips is the vibrancy and optimism of the new generation of the Eastern European film community. The wealthy West Europe fears cutbacks in media funds and looks down from its peak while this fresh generation of Eastern European nations seem to understand the need to work together developing their talents and aiming upward as a whole. Though exhausted by two months of travel, I feel elated to know that such a fresh new crop of talent is now planting its roots in the fertile soil of the world of cinema.
"We used that tunnel to transfer the rushes during the end of the war for the shooting of Perfect Circle by Ademir Kenovic!" -- Sylvain Bursztehn
This legendary film festival began during the seige and served as a part of the spiritual resistance put up by the brave people of the town of some 400,000 people. This 18th edition opened with Angelina Jolie presenting her Bosnian war film In the Land of Blood and Honey.
Branko Lustig, two-time Academy Award Winner for Best Picture spoke about the early origins of Schindler's List. After asking whether he should speak in Croatian or Bosnian, he settled on English stating, "I am not Angelina Jolie. I am not George Clooney. You have an old Jew in front of you." This Croatian Jewish survlivor of Auschwitz made a cameo appearance as the Maitre D of an exclusive SS nightclub in the film. Leopold Federberg, the owner of a leather goods shop near the Beverly Wilshire Hotel told the first story of Schindler which MGM originally optioned and developed long before Universal acquired it for Steven Spielberg. He appeared in the film as "Poldi". The reason the child was in red, the only colored element in the black and white film, was as a symbol of all the children who were murdered in the Shoah. Lustig bore witness to the murder and hoped this film would be instrumental in eliminating such wars. However, he was proven wrong as he witnessed the second genocide in his lifetime, that of the Bosnian Muslims by the Serbians, an equally horrendous event.
Today in Sarajevo all programs centered around the genocide.
Six years ago the festival added a Talent Campus, the only other one in Europe (there are also Talent Campuses (Campi?) in Tokyo, Guadalajrara and Buenos Aires). I am honored to have been invited here to discuss selected shorts with their producers and directors as a part of the strategic planning for future screenings and future careers for the flmmakers.
We are also seeing films such as Los Salvajes from Argentina, I, Anna starring Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne and many films from the area of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and other Balkan nations. Sarajevo, btw, was also the site of the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand by a terrorist which set off World War I and was home to Sephardic Jews driven from Spain during the Inquisition. It is home to Muslims, Jews, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics.
This trip marks the last of the summer for us which began in Cannes. We've gone from Cannes to Nice, Clug (Transylvania Film Festival), Berlin (Jewish Film Festifal), Paris (Champs Elysees Film Festival), Moscow and St. Petersburg (Doors), Paris again and now Sarajevo.
What stands out most from all these trips is the vibrancy and optimism of the new generation of the Eastern European film community. The wealthy West Europe fears cutbacks in media funds and looks down from its peak while this fresh generation of Eastern European nations seem to understand the need to work together developing their talents and aiming upward as a whole. Though exhausted by two months of travel, I feel elated to know that such a fresh new crop of talent is now planting its roots in the fertile soil of the world of cinema.
- 7/11/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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