Serbian artists exhibit in New York

Belgrade June 28. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Exhibition of Contemporary Art, "Serbia -most often asked questions", will be opened on 21. September in New York. Admirers of modern art will be able to view works of Serbian artist at the gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum. New York audiences will be able to enjoy the work of  Zoran Todorovic Katarina Zdjelar, Race Todosijevic, Milica Tomic, Biljana Djurdjevic and Darinka Pop Mitic. Uros Djuric and Austrian artist Elke Kristufek will present a kind of artistic dialogue based on their existing cooperation. Marko Lulic will present his new work that will be dedicated to recently deceased architect Bogdan Bogdanovic. The exhibition t the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York will be open until January 2011th year.

Documentary film "Goodbye, how are you?” in America

Belgrade, June 24. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Documentary film by Boris Mitic of Serbian satirical aphorism "Goodbye, how are you?” will be displayed on 23rd June, at the biggest American Documentary Film Festival in Washington “Silverdocs”. This projection in the hall of the American Film Institute (AFI) will be also the American premiere of the film. The film was also nominated by the Writers Guild of America for the award for best documentary screenplay, which will be awarded 25th June. "Good-bye, how are you?" effectively integrate the most universal Serbian satirical aphorisms in the unusual narration by actor Nebojsa Glogovac, and it is illustrated with nearly 500 'satirical documentary scenes' who were captured during 4 years on the back roads of Serbia and Republika Srpska. The film is supported by the Ministry of Culture and the City of Belgrade, and it was redeemed by the TV stations in France, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Estonia, Israel and all countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Bata Zivoinovic still popular in China

Belgrade, June 18. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Serbian actor Velimir Bata Zivojinovic, one of the biggest actors of former Yugoslavia recently signed agreement with the ‘Hemel’ for the sale of that company’s cosmetics in China, writes Belgrade daily Blic. Soon he is to start working on a series ‘Valter defends Sarajevo’ with the Chinese and is going to act in Srdjan Todorovic’s new film ‘Parade’. Zivojinovic, who is extremely popular in China is to play in a series for the Chinese market. The shooting shall be in cooperation with the ‘Pink’ and ‘Victoria Film’. It is believed that the original film has been seen by about 13 millions of Chinese viewers. ‘I am also to play in Todorovic’s new film on the gay parade. I shall be a parade promoter’, Zivojinovic says. He recently celebrated his 77th birthday and 50 years of work in film. He played in several hundreds of films until so far.

Nisville jazz festival

Belgrade, June ,12. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Musician Rambo Amadeus will be one of the main stars on the "Nisville" Jazz Festival from August 12th to August 15, announced the organizers of the music event. “Nisville” will be held at the Nis fortress, and his goal is to promote southern Serbia. For the occasion famous musician Rambo Amadeus announced that his band will include a brass section. In addition to Rambo Amadeus,  Solomon Burke and his band, "Benny Golson & Automatic rotting systems Kelag Big Band, Quintet Roy Hargruva, Steve Hackett,  De Phazz,  Manu di Bang and others will perform.

TIBA festival started in Belgrade

 
Belgrade June, 10, 2010 (Serbia Today) - Musical "On the letter on the letter" opened on Sunday Eighth International Theatre Festival for Children and Youth TIBA in Pozoriste na Terazijama. The audience will enjoy performances from Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Parma and Copenhagen. The Festival was opened by actor Miki Damjanovic, and the main festival program will showcase nine performances. For the opening event the musical "On the letter on the letter" after once popular TV series directed by Darjan Mihajlovic was selected. In next few days the audience will see performances from Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Parma and Copenhagen, and on the closing day Theatre Ensemble of "Bosko Buha", which organizes the festival, will put on "The Lord of the Flies." The accompanying program at the Studentski Park will feature staged mini-plays written by students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade every day from 6pm to 8pm.
 

Three artists from Serbia in an exhibition of new Canadian art

Belgrade/Ottawa, June, 04. 2010 (Serbia Today) – The works of three artists originally from Serbia have been featured in a group exhibition of new Canadian art and culture in Ottawa. Sculptress Bozica Radjenovic presented the installation symbolically called "Dual citizenship.” Radjenovic has a BA and MA degree from the Faculty of Fine Art in Belgrade, and 1993 she moved to Canada. In her native Belgrade, Ottawa and Toronto she had a dozen solo exhibitions and at group exhibitions in Canada, she has made more than 30 presentations. Zivana Djukic Kostic presented "Nordic fleece" with the performance of a series of metal tapestries in the series "From the Vinca to Iceland”. She lives in Pancevo, Ottawa and Montreal. Jasminka Kukic, the only artist-immigrant from Serbia, with a decade and a half of working on collages has represented three works in this technique. She has lived in Ottawa for 17 years and has exhibited in many exhibitions in  Canada,  France,  USA,  Lithuania,  Bulgaria  and  Serbia  including the "
Golden Pen in Belgrade. 

Film festival in Palic

 
Belgrade/ Palic, June, 03. 2010 (Serbia Today) – European Film Festival Palic 2010th will be held from 17 to 23 July at several locations in Palic and Subotica, announced the organizers - the Open University in Subotica In its 17th edition the festival will offer nine sections, and as in previous years, the main program of the Competition will give out three awards - the Golden Tower for best film, Palic Tower for Best Director and Special Jury Prize. The international jury of critics will award "Tollerance Award (prize for tolerance) for best film from within Parallels and Encounters, and selection of young spirit of Europe will award the European filmmaker with ERSTE Undeground Spirit Award. Traditionally there are two awards, "Alexander Lifka" for his contribution to European cinema, one for domestic and one for foreign artist. Alexander Lifka was the founder of cinema in this region and one of the most important European figures deserving of the promotion of "moving pictures" in the first half of the 20th century.

Lazar Ristovski winner of the award " Sergej Bondarcuk"

Belgrade/Moscow, June, 03. 2010 (Serbia Today) - Serbian well-known actor, Lazar Ristovski has received the award for outstanding contribution to the world cinema, last week at the International Film Festival in Moscow. Ristovski received the prize on Wednesday at the opening of the festival and on that occasion he said: "Maybe I could say that it was the greatest award that I have ever received in my life. " He also said that this award is very worth for the Russians, and for artists from Serbia even more. He pointed out that such awards in Serbia do not attach great significance. "It is a spiritual festival, festival of orthodoxy, but it is not just a festival of Orthodox countries. It is a world festival, at which awards were given to the great artists of the world’s film, and it has a great future" said Ristovski. "Ristovski has played in 50 movies and 3,000 theater plays and its long-term participation in the Moscow festival has made a great contribution to this event" said the organizers.

Srdjan Koljevic’s new film in Karlovy Vary

Belgrade, May, 31. 2010 (Serbia Today) - New movie of the director Srdjan Koljevic "Woman with a broken nose" was included at competitive program 45th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, which will be held from 2 to 10 July, announced on Wednesday distributor "Tack." The film “Woman with a broken nose" will be shown in the official competition program "East of the West.” It will be the international premiere of the film and the first official participation of a Serbian film in the world festival of A category this year. In the cast are Nebojsa Glogovac, Branka Katic, Anica Dobra, Nada Sargin, Jasna Zalica, Vuk Kostic and Nikola Rakocevic. The film was shot in the production "Bas Celik" from Serbia and the “Neu Mediopolis Film” from Germany.

Darko Lungulov;s film “Here and There'' wins in America

Belgrade, May, 26. 2010 (Serbia Today) - Film “Here and There'' has achieved incredible success at the box office list of independent films after the first weekend showing in America. Last year's winner of the Film Festival "Tribeca" in the category Best New York story, 14 May began screening in the U.S. and after the first weekend, occupied 5th place on the list of independent films in America, as reported by IndyWire Box Office. Serbian film took a high place at the box office list completely free of propaganda and advertising, but with "spreading the good vote". This was enhanced by excellent reviews in influential publications such as Hollywood Reporter, New York Times and Village Voice. Due to great interest, screening will be extended for one more week in the Quad Cinema, in New York. From Friday 21st May "Here and There" begins showing in Los Angeles, in cinema "Laemmle Music Theater, and during the next two months the film will be shown in 14 cities in America.

Serbian director awarded on Cannes film festival

Belgrade, May 25. 2010. (Serbia Today) - Project  the "Circles", idea of Serbian director and producer Srdan Golubovic,  received the award for best project on "Atelier" session, the official program of Cannes film  festival  designed  for  movie works in development. "Circle" received the award  among the 15 Selected Films in progress  emerging from around the world, announced the distributor of “Tuck.” Cannes Film Festival has launched the "Atelier" to help funding  directors  so they could  finish their projects. Besides Golubovic  competition involved the authors from Argentina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, France, Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, Iran, Britain and Japan. Film Centre of Serbia supported the new Golubovic project "Circles" with 300.000 EUR based on the results of the competition for co-financing domestic films in this year.

Sarajevo Days in Belgrade

Belgrade, May, 22. 2010 (Serbia Today) Sarajevo Days in Belgrade, opens on 19.May. It is a group exhibition of artists from Sarajevo, The manifestation is held every year in May, as a reminder to the beginning of a four-year siege of Sarajevo. From 2007, the festival has renewed old and made new connections between Belgrade and Sarajevo citizens. From last year the Festival received official support from the two cities. This year over 200 artists and cultural workers will come to Belgrade. This year’s theme, according to organizers of the festival, are relations in the region, 15 years after the Dayton agreement, violence at sporting events and discussions on mechanisms for establishing the truth about the past, in war in former Yugoslavia. The visitors are Sarajevo National Theatre, Chamber Theatre 55 and the Sarajevo War Theater with performances of 'Caligula', illness of family M and “This is Ionesco, fool. "The festival is organized by Youth Initiative for Human Rights and the Agency for Cooperation with NGOs and European Harmonization of Belgrade, and will last until 24 May.

Serbian women love theatre

Belgrade, May, 21. 2010  (Serbia Today)  Regular theatre audiences in Serbia are mainly women and young people, according to the results of research conducted by the Institute for the Study of Cultural Development, Belgrade. Women dominate with almost two thirds of theatergoers, with most of the visitors ranging between 19 and 30 years, while the smallest proportion are aged over 65 years.  In terms of education, theater audiences are mostly professionals and students, and even 25 percent of visitors have a high degree.  The research also included the frequency of visits to the theater. The largest group - about 37 percent are occasional visitors, those who go to the theater once or twice in a period of three months. The following is a regular audience - about 30 percent of viewers who go to the theater once or twice each month. About 13 percent of the public visiting the theater two to three times a year, and only four percent annually.  Favorite genres of Serbian theatre audience are comedies and dramas, as well as contemporary works of local authors. Comedies are a bit more popular with young audiences, older audience prefer dramas and interest in musicals is equally in all age groups.  As for information on the work of the theater, most information came from the Internet and recommendations of friends, but there are still important and traditional ways - advertising space in the theater and newspapers, while some potential visitors informed about the culture through programs on radio and television. More than half the audience thinks that ticket prices are reasonable, to 28 percent prices are high, 4.6 percent thought that the are low, and about ten percent of the audience didn’t reveal their opinion. As a reason for the rare visit to the theater audience mentioned social and economic conditions, as well as the dominant value orientations in society. The study included all professional theater audience in Serbia.
 

Creativity of persons with disabilities

Belgrade, May, 20. 2010 (Serbia Today) The Belgrade International Festival of persons with disabilities will be held from May 27 till  May 31. The event will feature films  and theater performances whose  authors or the protagonists are people with disabilities,  announced  festival director, actor Marko Stojanovic. The festival will feature 50 movies releases from more than 10 countries from all over the world.  Audience would also see theatre performances, programs for children, various workshops and forums. "People with disabilities will show that they are the full and equal members of society," said festival direktor Marko Stojanovic. The festival will be held at the “Dom sindikata” and  the building of the Belgrade City hall .  Tickets for the event will be free.
 

Close to 500,000 visitors on the event “Museum Night”

Belgrade, May, 19. 2010 (Serbia Today) – The event which was been held in 48 cities in the country, visited by over 450,000 people, announced the production house “Museum Night”. Most reviews were as expected in Belgrade (250 000) and in Novi Sad (120,000), said organizers. All those who were in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Sremski Karlovci, Sabac, Valjevo, Pancevo, Svilajnac, Loznica, Subotica, Pozarevac, Krusevac, Kraljevo, Sombor, Kikinda, Jagodina, Smederevo, and in many other cities have had the opportunity to see exhibitions and also to explore the sites that have not had a chance to see it. In Novi Sad, according to initial estimates. Through museums, galleries and exhibition spaces passed 120,000 visitors. About 10,000 visitors in Valjevo visited the new opened  and reshuffled tower Nenadovića and a central museum building in which the visitors enjoyed the performance Live art museum. More than 8,000 people have visited the Town Museum, Modern Art Gallery Subotica and enjoyed meeting in the collection of Jozef Naza - drawings, paintings, graphics and sculptures. For the first time the event was joined Svilajnac, Bela Crkva and Novi Pazar.

Film of a student Dane Komljen at the festival in Cannes

Belgrade, May, 18. 2010 (Serbia Today) - Short film directed by a young Serbian Dane Komljen called "I'm already everything that I have," will participate in the competitive selection Sinefondasion (Cinefondation) in the Cannes festival, which is dedicated to discovering new talents. Komljen's test film from the third year in the class of director Slobodan Sijan, at the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade, is included in the selection of only 13 films, selected among the 1500 papers submitted from around the world. In the Cannes program "Studio" this year is invited a famous Serbian director and producer Srdjan Golubovic. He will present his new project called "Circles” in the sessions before the world's producers.

Jazz fantasy - Wayne Sorter comes to Belgrade

Belgrade, May, 17. 2010 (Serbia Today)  Wayne Sorter, one of the most influential jazz musician of today, will open the 26th Belgrade Jazz Festival  on  October 28 with a  concert at the Sava Center. The famous saxophonist returns to Belgrade  after 30 years. On 1980 in the Serbian capital he performed with his band "Weather Report.”  According to The New York Times, Wayne Sorter is the greatest living jazz composer. Wayne Sorter won the "Grammy’ award nine times. The first time this award was given to him was on 1979 as a member of the group Weather Report. His subsequent eight awards were individual accolades.

Come back of Johnny Stulic

Belgrade, May. 15. 2010 (Serbia Today) The collected works of the legendary  “Azra”  front man and now writer,  Branimir Johnny Stulic, are almost  prepared and should be released by the end of May, announced the publishing house “Plato.” The collection will comprise fifteen of Stulic’s books and a double CD with hitherto unpublished music. Also there will be recordings of the  Azra concerts in Mostar and Banja Luka. Stulic drew covers for his works. The lead singer of one of the most popular bands in the Balkans, former resident of Zagreb now lives in the Netherlands and for many years has not appeared in public.

Kusturica awarded for dialogue between cultures

Belgrade, May, 14. 2010 (Serbia today)  Movie director Emir Kusturica will receive a prize for a dialogue between cultures on the 56th Film festival in the Italian town of Taormina, organization board announced. The festival will be held from June 12 to June 18 at the Greek Theater in Taormina. American actor Robert De Niro will be awarded with the prize "Arte". Emir Kusturica won the "Golden palm" at Cannes for the film "Father on the Business travel" 1985 and "Underground" in 1995.  De Niro (aged 67) received the Oscar for best actor in "Godfather 2 in 1975. Award of the American Academy of film went to him once again six years later for the film "Raging Bull."

Film Plavi voz first at the Cannes Film Market, than in Belgrade

Belgrade, May. 13. 2010 (Serbia today) - Janko Baljak’s film " Plavi voz" whose story is housed at the time of the death of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, will have its first run on 19th May, at the Film Market Cannes festival. This will be followed on 25th May with special screenings in Belgrade, in the open area in front of the Museum of History of Yugoslavia, where Tito's grave is located. That will be the first run in Belgrade, through a five-day event "ORA 2010.” Baljko’s film is about a generation of high school graduates in 1980. Pupils of electro-technical school "Nikola Tesla", which Tito's death has caught in the moment of a beauty contest. " Plavi voz " is also a film with specific political background with the action happening in the seven days of mourning of Tito's death in Belgrade and other cities of the former Yugoslavia. It was considered rude to be happy and particularly offensive to be in love in the way that the heroes of the film are. In the roles of students are Sanja Popovic, Ljubomir Bulajic, Aleksandar Radojicic, Aleksandar Tomic and Suzana Lukic, director of school plays Lena Bogdanovic, a professor of Marxism, Nebojsa Milovanovic, and Police Colonel Goran Sultanovic.