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Talents Sarajevo 2020 welcomes 62 participants in online edition
This year, the “Promising Filmmakers” come from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Greece, Georgia, Croatia, Cyprus, Hungary, Romania, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
The 14th edition of Sarajevo Talents confirms the talent and enthusiasm of new generations of filmmakers from the South East Europe and South Caucasus. For this year’s programme, which will take place from 14 to 18 August under the name of “New Beginnings”, 62 candidates were selected.
This year, the promising filmmakers come from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
In line with the position taken by Sarajevo Film Festival to be held in a modified format for the prevention of pandemic, this year’s Talents Sarajevo will not take place at the festival locations in Sarajevo, but only online. The possibility of adjusting the new edition of Talents Sarajevo to the situation caused by the Corona virus was announced already in April, in the call for applications to this year’s programme. However, this did not discourage 305 directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, camera operators, editors, and film critics from applying to the “New Beginnings”, which was also announced as a forum for research of a series of direct pandemic effects on film as art and industry.
This year, the Talents Sarajevo programme will include candidates from 14 of the total 19 countries of the South East Europe and South Caucasus. Most of them come from Greece (16), Romania (10), and Croatia (8) – more than a third of all the candidates.
The Sarajevo Talents programme will keep the structure of eight modules: Directors Summit, Producers Summit, Acting Studio, Camera Studio, Editing Studio, Pack&Pitch, Script Station, and Talents Press. Since it was first started in 2006, in cooperation with Sarajevo Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, Sarajevo Talents has been supporting the development and networking of young filmmakers, helping them make contacts and share experiences with renowned film professionals from the region and the world. Talents Sarajevo has become the most important regional film hub for young film professionals, including those who will lead a significant part of revival of the regional cinematography after the pandemic.
Talents Sarajevo 2020 participants by modules:
Acting Studio
Aris Antonopoulos (Greece)
Sara Atanasovska (North Macedonia)
Nancy Boukli (Greece)
Alexandru Cirneala (Romania)
Lazar Dragojević (Montenegro)
Staša Dukić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jelena Đukić (Montenegro)
Rok Juricic (Croatia)
Marina Palii (Romania)
Tajna Peršić (Croatia)
Alina Șerban (Romania)
Lukrecija Tudor (Croatia)
Robi Urs (Romania)
Directors Summit
Dimitrios Anagnostou (Greece)
Eugen Dediu-Sandu (Romania)
Ekin Demirhanoglu (Turkey)
Sandra Jovanovska (North Macedonia)
Katarina Koljević (Serbia)
Andronikos Konstantinos Dimopoulos (Greece)
Panagiotis Kountouras (Greece)
Sylvia Nicolaides (Cyprus)
Maja Novaković (Serbia)
Alexandros Rellos (Greece)
Nikola Stojanović (Serbia)
Rozália Szeleczki (Hungary)
Sead Šabotić (Montenegro)
Ozan Yoleri (Turkey)
Konstantina Zikou (Greece)
Urban Zorko (Slovenia)
Producers Summit
Dalia Alić (Croatia)
Borbála Csukás (Hungary)
Ipek Erden (Turkey)
Marija Lero (Serbia)
Anja Sekulić (Montenegro)
Kyveli Short (Greece)
Camera Studio
Daniel Balint (Hungary)
Davor Marenjak (Croatia)
Erofili Moraiti (Greece)
Adrian Constantin Paduretu (Romania)
Mladen Teofilović (Serbia)
Editing Studio
Razvan Barseti (Romania)
Roxana Madalina (Romania)
Ivana Perčinlić (Croatia)
Pack&Pitch
Anna Gyimesi (Hungary)
Ivana Janošev (Serbia)
Clara Kleininger (Romania)
Zala Opara (Slovenia)
Thanasis Trouboukis (Greece)
Murat Uğurlu (Turkey)
Script Station
Gledis Bica (Albania)
Deniz Celebic (Turkey)
Alexandros Chantzis (Greece)
Sotiris Petridis (Greece)
Georgios Pavlos Sifakis (Greece)
Andrea Slaviček (Croatia)
Tea Vatsadze (Georgia)
Lyubo Yonchev (Bulgaria)
Talents Press
Savina Petkova (Bulgaria)
Dina Pokrajac (Croatia)
Elena-Diana Smeu (Romania)
Tamara Tica (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Veronika Zakonjšek (Slovenia)