9 February, 2010

57^th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival selection jury decided to include “Back portrait” into the competition programme of this year’s festival. The film, which was shot in Cacak during the last “Interaction”, is going to be screened in experimental film category. The festival is going to take place in Belgrade, from 30 March to 3 April 2010.

5 February, 2010

"Back portrait", a film that was made during 4^th International Student Film Camp "Interaction 2009" is in the official programme of the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox that is going to take place from 28 February to 7 March in Zagreb, Croatia.
 

 5^th December 2009

There was the screening of the films that were made during 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009” in Pozega, with the aim of promoting the activities and results of camp. During the evening, the partners and sponsors of the camp as well as all the people in Pozega who made 4^th “Interaction” happen were presented with certificates of appreciation.

27^th November 2009

The people and institutions that helped this year’s camp be carried out were given the certificates of appreciation at the Red Cross Organization in Uzice. The films made during the camp were screened after all the certificates had been handed out.
 

25 October, 2009

"Back portrait", the film produced by Filmart from Pozega within 4th International Student Documentary Film Camp "Interaction 2009", was screened at 3rd KRAF (Kragujevac Review of Antiwar and Engaged Films) on 25 October. The festival is opened by an author from Kragujevac every year. Vojin Vasovic, the film director, was born in Kragujevac which gave the reasons for the discussion on topic "Are films in Kragujevac coming to light?" which started after the screening. A short "Interaction" presentation was done before "Back portrait" was screened.
 

7 October, 2009

The Independent Film Centre “Filmart” organized the screening of the films made during 4^th “Interaction” at the Cultural Centre in Cacak on Wednesday, 7 October.
Milen Alempijevic, film programme manager and PR of the Cultural Centre held the opening speech at the best-attended screening so far and emphasized both the importance of “Interaction” in terms of culture in this area, as well as their great cooperation with some institutions in Cacak such as institutions of culture and the Cultural Centre in Cacak.
Predrag Zivkovic, executive producer of the camp addressed the audience afterwards. He expressed his gratitude to all the sponsors and partners in this area, especially the people from Cacak who proved themselves to be very hospitable four years in a row and tolerant to the demanding Cacak crew this year. Jelena Cuslovic, a member of the “Interaction” team and  Predrag Zivkovic handed out certificates of appreciation to all the sponsors, partners and participants who are from Cacak.
More than 500 people who were present at the screening enjoyed watching “Polyphony”, “Coloring the fog”, “Back portrait” and “Mile and Nale”.     
 

26 September, 2009

The presentation of the films that were made during this year's student film camp "Interaction 2009" was held on 26 September at the Cultural Centre Dom Omladine in Kragujevac. In fact, there were two presentations at 6 and 7pm since the audience was numerous. They were able to see the four Interaction films as well as the film which is about the camp itself based on the impressions of 20 participants from 14 different countries. 
 

21 August, 2009

The film camp was officially closed when the films were screened at the Belgrade Cultural Centre on Thursday, 20 August. Nebojsa Popovic, manager of the film programme at the Cultural Centre, welcomed the audience on behalf of the Centre.
Dejan Petrovic, manager of the Independent Film Centre “Filmart” introduced the participants of 4^th “Interaction” and handed them out the certificates of participation. All four documentaries that were made during 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009” were screened during the evening.
The screening in Belgrade was attended by Predrag Tojic - State Secretary of the Ministry for Diaspora, Milica J. Kuzmanovic - M.A. professor and Head of Department for contemporary creative and cultural industries, Mr. Dante Coelho De Lima - Ambassador of Brazil in Belgrade, Mrs. Rujiza Mara Andreyevich - Minister Counselor (Embassy of Brazil), Mr. Amir-Ali Javadian – Deputy Director of the Iranian Cultural Centre, Mr. Dusan Djokovic - General Manager of the Academy of Arts (Belgrade), Mrs. Milena Dragicevic Sesic, professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and Mr. Mirko Stark, professor at the Academy of Arts (Novi Sad)
 

20 August, 2009

There was the premiere of the films made during this year’s “Interaction” on Wednesday, 19 August which announced the end of stage 2 of 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009”. The audience at the Pozega Cultural Centre saw “Polyphony”, “Coloring the fog”, “Back portrait” and “Mile and Nale”.
The participants of 4^th “Interaction” visited the Ovcar-Kablar Gorge on their way to Belgrade on 20 August. The people who work at the Tourist organization of Cacak showed them the monasteries in this area and organized the Morava River rafting trip.
 

“Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Kitakinan (Canada), No more Iva (Serbia), Informative Talk (Serbia), Traveller (Serbia), Film critic (Serbia), Parallels (USA) and Mirrors (Italy).
“Intertent” programme, Liberty Square, 9pm: Canada and Serbia culture presentations.
 

17 August, 2009

 “Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Ready! Steady! Go! (Estonia), Romance .38 (Brazil) and 5^th Foul (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
“Intertent” programme, Liberty Square, 9pm: Estonia, Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina culture presentations.
 

16 August, 2009

“Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Kersky (Russia), Blank Pages (India), 100 Days to the Olympics (Lithuania) and Academy of Arts (Belgrade) student films.
“Intertent” programme, Liberty Square, 9pm: Russia, India and Lithuania culture presentations.
 

 15 August, 2009

 The participants visited Drvengrad (Mokra Gora, Mt. Zlatibor) and an open air museum “Old village – Sirogojno”. “Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Academy of Arts Novi Sad and CILECT Prize 2008 film programmes. “Dirty Dorothy” concert and “West Side Connection” hip-hop show were held at Liberty Square, beginning at 9pm.
 

“Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Jona's Birthday (Germany), Race (Romania), Memory Lapse (France) and CILECT Prize 2008 film programme.
“Intertent” programme, Liberty Square, 9pm: Germany, Romania and France culture presentations.
 

13 August, 2009

In cooperation with Iranian Cultural Centre and Pozega Cultural Centre, Mr. Amir-Ali Javadian, an Iranian photographer, had his photo exhibition opened at 7pm at the Art Gallery in Pozega.
“Interscreen” programme, Pozega Cultural Centre, 7.30pm: Listening to the Silences (Great Britain), Little Photographer (Sweden), Passage (Iran), Breathtaking (Serbia) and the Faculty of Dramatic Arts student films.
“Intertent” programme, Liberty Square, 9pm: Great Britain, Sweden and Iran culture presentations.
 

 12 August, 2009

The opening ceremony of the camp was held on International Youth Day, 12 August, beginning at 9pm, at the Pozega Cultural Centre, Movie Theatre. The participants and the people present were first addressed by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Serbia Nebojsa Bradic, State Secretary of the Ministry for Diaspora Predrag Tojic Prim. D., the eminent Serbian film director Emir Kusturica, Pozega Mayor Milovan Micovic and finally General Manager of IFC “Filmart” Dejan Petrovic.

Mrs. Amira Arifovic-Harms - Deputy Chief of Mission, Mr. Shri Saikat Sen Sharma - Second Secretary and Head of Chancery (Embassy of India), Mrs. Rujiza Mara Andreyevich - Minister Counselor (Embassy of Brazil), Mr. Amir-Ali Javadian - Deputy Director of the Iranian Cultural Centre, Their Majesties Prince Vladimir Karadjordjevic and Princess Brigit Muler and the representatives of the neighboring towns (Uzice, Cacak and Arilje) also attended the opening. After the ceremony, the audience watched “Helium” – a film made during 4^th ISFC “Interaction 08” (it won the Best Experimental Film Award at 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival). There was a cocktail party when the screening was over.

“Intertent” programme: there were presentations of the “International Youth Day” and “Interaction 08” programmes held at Liberty Square at 6pm in the centre of Pozega.
 

 11 August, 2009

After they shot the material for their films in Uzice, Cacak, Pozega and Guca, the participants came to Pozega where they are going to edit them from 11 to 19 August. Together with film production, the main activity of the camp, the following programmes are also going to be carried out: “Intertent”, “Interscreen”, a photo exhibition, a music concert and free time activities (day trips, etc).
 

After the participants of 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009” arrived in Belgrade on 4^th August there was an introductory workshop at the Belgrade Cultural Centre.

20 students of production, directing, cinematography, sound design and editing from 14 countries (Russia, Canada, Romania, Germany, France, Great Britain, Brazil, Sweden, Estonia, India, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran and Serbia) were informed on the goals, activities and dynamics of the camp.
Sladjana Varagic – programme coordinator, Predrag Zivkovic – executive producer of the camp and Dejan Petrovic – general manager of the IFC “Filmart” spoke about the project. Jelena Cuslovic acted as the workshop moderator.

After the first session of the workshop was over, M.A. professor Dragan Elcic lectured on “Author documentary film” and then gave some advice to the participants. Dragan Elcic, the film directing supervisor, is going to take part in film production stage by advising them what to do when investigating the area, searching for the topic, editing and during the postproduction stage. There was another workshop “Sound in documentary film” held by professor Nikola Cvijanovic.

When the lectures were finished, the participants set off for Cacak, Pozega, Guca and Uzice where they will stay from 5^th to 10^th of August and divided into 4 crews shoot the material for their films on the theme “Tolerance of differences”. During this day, on 5^th August, the participants met their local guides and investigated the areas searching for the topic and ideas for their films.

3^rd August, 2009

There was a press conference at the Municipality of Pozega on 3^rd August which started at noon. The press conference was held in order to announce the beginning of 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009”.

Dejan Petrovic - general manager of the IFC “Filmart”, Milovan Micovic – Pozega Mayor, Goran Simovic – Pozega Deputy Mayor and Predrag Zivkovic – executive producer of the “Interaction” film camp spoke to the journalists from Pozega, Uzice and Cacak that were at the press conference. Sladjana Vasiljevic moderated the conference.

The media representatives were presented with this year’s project as well as with its stages: film production, accompanying programmes “Interscreen” and “Intertent”, exhibitions and concerts. They were also informed about the arrival of 20 participants of the camp – students at film schools in 14 different countries and their participation in production of 4 documentary films on the theme “Tolerance of differences”. The films will be shot in municipalities of Cacak, Uzice, Guca and Pozega.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and the Ministry for Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia support the “Interaction 2009” film camp like in previous years, but this year the project is supported by the Municipality of Pozega for the first time. The Municipality of Pozega representatives emphasized the importance of this project being carried out in Pozega and all the potentials it has for promoting Pozega in terms of culture, economy and tourism. Multiculturalism, culture decentralization and promoting cultural and historical sites in Serbia are some of the “Interaction” film camp goals and at the same time the main reasons why the Municipality of Pozega decided to support this project.

21 July, 2009
“Interaction” was presented at the press conference held at the Ministry of Culture in Belgrade

There was a press conference at the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia on Tuesday, 21^st July. All the activities that are planned to take place during this summer and that are supported by the Ministry of Culture were presented at the conference. First Nebojsa Bradic, Minister of Culture presented the importance and significance of the cultural activities supported by the Ministry of Culture and then the most important ones which are planned to take place in Serbia in July and August were presented to the audience – Acting achievements festival “Film encounters” (Nis, 22-31 August), Festival of film scenario (Vrnjacka Banja, 8-12 August), BELEF (Belgrade, 2-31 July), Nisvil festival (Nis, 13-16 July) and International Student Film Festival “Interaction” (Pozega, 4-21 August). Dejan Petrovic, general manager of the IFC “Filmart” spoke about this year’s “Interaction” pointing out that this project is “Filmart’s” contribution to the process of decentralizing culture in Serbia. Mr Petrovic also expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Culture for supporting “Interaction” since its very beginning.

19^th July, 2009
4^th INTERNATIONAL STUDENT FILM CAMP “INTERACTION 2009”

4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction 2009” which is organized by the Independent Film Centre “Filmart” and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, the Ministry for Diaspora of the Republic of Serbia and the Municipality of Pozega is going to be held from 4^th to 21^st August 2009.

After three years of the project having been carried out on Zlatibor Mountain this year’s “Interaction” is going to take place in Pozega for the first time.  

20 students of production, directing, cinematography, sound design and editing from 14 countries (India, Estonia, Canada, Germany, France, Romania, Lithuania, Brazil, Russia, Great Britain, Sweden, Iran, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia) divided into 4 crews are going to make 4 documentaries, inspired by the countryside and people from Pozega, Uzice, Cacak and Guca.

The theme of this year’s camp is “Tolerance of differences”.
Film production, as the main activity of the camp is going to be accompanied by “Intertent” and “Interscreen” programmes.

In cooperation with the embassies and cultural centres of the participating countries, the cultures of the countries which have their representatives in the camp will be presented through music, dance, poetry, cuisine, etc. at Liberty Square in the centre of Pozega.

The films made by this year’s participants and those produced at Serbian film academies as well as CILECT selection of the best student films are going to be screened within “Intercreen” programme at the Pozega Cultural Centre Movie Theatre (CILECT - International Association of Film and Television Schools).

Day trips to Mokra Gora, Sirogojno and the Ovcar-Kablar Gorge will help the participants to get to know natural and cultural potentials as well as the lovely countryside of Western Serbia during their stay there.

The films made during the camp are going to be screened at the closing ceremony in Pozega on 19^th August and a day later at the Belgrade Cultural Centre. The films are also going to be screened at Serbian and foreign film academies, towns which support the project and cultural centres in diaspora. The best films made during the camp is going to be sent to film festivals all around the world, like “Helium” (the film made during 3^rd “Interaction”) which won the Best Experimental Film Award at 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival.  

13^th June, 2009

 “Helium” at Cinema City Film Festival
Film “Helium” is going to be screened at the Cinema City International Film and Media Festival that is going to be held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 7^th to 13^th June. Dejan Zecevic who selected the films for the festival decided that the competition selection “Up to 10,000 bucks” encompasses “Helium”, as well. This film selection includes 34 films made in Serbia and abroad. “Helium” is going to be screened at the Youth Theatre (Small Hall) on Saturday 13^th June, at 10.30 pm.

3^rd June, 2009

“Helium” in Washington
Film “Helium” is going to be screened at the Avalon Theatre in Washington on Wednesday 3^rd June, at 8 pm within the Serbian Contemporary Short and Documentary Film Festival. Presentation of Serbian films in the USA is organized by the Orfelin Circle in Washington.

31^st May, 2009

Second award for “Helium” at AsterFest
Film “Helium” won special award at 5th International Film Festival AsterFest that was held in Strumica (Macedonia FYROM) from 27^th to 31^st May 2009.

31^st May, 2009

“Helium” at the Golden Knight International Film Festival in Russia
Film “Helium” was screened within the competition programme of 18^th Golden Knight International Film Festival that was held in Lipetsk, Russia, from 22^nd to 31^st May.

3^rd April, 2009

“-HE- Helium” won the Best Experimental Film Award at 56th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival

23^rd March, 2009

Film “-HE- Helium” at film festivals in Serbia and abroad
“-HE- Helium”, the film that was made during 3^rd International Student Film Festival “Interaction – Zlatibor 2008”, is in the official competition programme of 56^th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival that takes place in Belgrade, Serbia. The film is in the national experimental programme of the festival and is going to be screened at the Belgrade Cultural Centre, on 2^nd April at 5 pm.

The film is also going to be screened on 29^th March within the official programme of The London Internatonal Documentary Festival. This year’s festival is going to be held from 27^th to 4^th April in London, UK.

“-HE- Helium”, the best film made during 3^rd “Interaction”, is going to be screened within the competition programme of 6th International Madrid Documentary Festival “Documenta Madrid“. The Festival is going to be held from 1^st to 10^th May in Madrid.

17 February, 2009


“Helium”, the film that was made during 3^rd International Student Film Camp “Interaction – Zlatibor 08” is going to be screened within the competition programme of Independent days 9 Film Festival that is going to be held from 22^nd to 26^th April in Karlsruhe (Germany).

“Helium” at March festival


“Helium”, the film that was made during 3^rd International Student Film Festival “Interaction – Zlatibor 2008”, is in the competition programme of 56^th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival. This year’s festival is going to be held from 30^th March to 3^rd April under the slogan “Short circuit”. The festival is going to present the best featured, documentary, experimental and animated films, recently made in Serbia and abroad.

1 February, 2009
“Interaction” in Berlin


At 59^th Berlin International Film Festival that was organized from 5^th to 15^th February this year, Film Centre Serbia presented some films, projects and Serbian talents. Film lovers had a chance to see a presentation of the International Student Film Camp “Interaction – Zlatibor” at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world. By presenting “Interaction” within Berlin Film Festival, the Independent Film Centre is announcing its promotional activities as well as the opening of the competition for taking part in 4^th International Student Film Camp “Interaction – Zlatibor 09”. The competition is going to be open from 1^st March to 15^th April 2009 and the students of production, directing, cinematography, editing and sound recording and design at film academies in Serbia and abroad are invited to apply.