The producer of Croatia’s Oscar contender claims the film is getting shortchanged by Croatian officials because its themes, including the oppression of homosexuals by the former communist regime in Yugoslavia, are not to the government’s liking.
Ivona Juka’s Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day was the unanimous pick of Croatia’s 12 film professional associations to represent the country in the Oscar race for best international feature. But the promotional funding provided by the Croatian Audiovisual Center to market the movie to Academy voters is far less than that for Croatia’s Oscar contender from last year.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day received 69,550 euro ($73,250) in promotional funding, less than half the budget granted to Dubravka Turić’s Traces last year (the film was not nominated). More egregiously, Nebojsa Slijepcević’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, an Oscar contender for best life action short film, received more than twice that amount,...
Ivona Juka’s Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day was the unanimous pick of Croatia’s 12 film professional associations to represent the country in the Oscar race for best international feature. But the promotional funding provided by the Croatian Audiovisual Center to market the movie to Academy voters is far less than that for Croatia’s Oscar contender from last year.
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day received 69,550 euro ($73,250) in promotional funding, less than half the budget granted to Dubravka Turić’s Traces last year (the film was not nominated). More egregiously, Nebojsa Slijepcević’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, an Oscar contender for best life action short film, received more than twice that amount,...
- 12/5/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ivona Juka’s drama Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, which is Croatia’s Oscar entry this year and is screening in L.A. today as part of a guerilla awards campaign, breaks fresh ground for its exploration of the persecution of Yugoslavia’s LGBT community under Tito in the 1950s.
Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime.
Ćosić is joined in the film by actors from across the ex-Yugoslavia in the roles of ex-resistance comrades and cinema collaborators, including Nenad (Djordje Galic), Stevan (Slaven Doslo) and Ivan (Elmir Krivalic).
Some 16 years after their wartime bravery, Lovro and his friends come under the scrutiny of Tito’s Communist Party for their sexual orientation.
Apparatchik Emir, played by veteran actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic,...
Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime.
Ćosić is joined in the film by actors from across the ex-Yugoslavia in the roles of ex-resistance comrades and cinema collaborators, including Nenad (Djordje Galic), Stevan (Slaven Doslo) and Ivan (Elmir Krivalic).
Some 16 years after their wartime bravery, Lovro and his friends come under the scrutiny of Tito’s Communist Party for their sexual orientation.
Apparatchik Emir, played by veteran actor Emir Hadzihafizbegovic,...
- 12/3/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Lecturers include Finland’s Juho Kuosmanen, US producer Peter Spears.
US duo Frances McDormand and Joel Coen will be ‘masters’ for the second edition of Ponta Lopud Film Festival, on the island of Lopud near Dubrovnik, Croatia.
McDormand and Coen will give invite-only masterclasses to directors, actors and cinematographers from Southeast Europe, in the festival from June 22 to 27.
Ponta Lopud was started last year by Miro Purivatra, founder and long-time director of Sarajevo Film Festival; and Tilda Grossel Bogdanovic.
The festival will also host lectures from Juho Kuosmanen, Finnish director of Compartment No. 6; Peter Spears, US producer of titles including...
US duo Frances McDormand and Joel Coen will be ‘masters’ for the second edition of Ponta Lopud Film Festival, on the island of Lopud near Dubrovnik, Croatia.
McDormand and Coen will give invite-only masterclasses to directors, actors and cinematographers from Southeast Europe, in the festival from June 22 to 27.
Ponta Lopud was started last year by Miro Purivatra, founder and long-time director of Sarajevo Film Festival; and Tilda Grossel Bogdanovic.
The festival will also host lectures from Juho Kuosmanen, Finnish director of Compartment No. 6; Peter Spears, US producer of titles including...
- 5/13/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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