After successfully establishing annual awards for TV series three years ago, Sarajevo Film Festival is establishing annual awards for regional films, which will be selected according to the same principle.
The electorate, which so far brings together more than 450 film and TV professionals, will work on nominations and award winners for best regional films in the same way as for TV series.
It is expected that new members will be admitted to the voting body and gradually transform this informal body into the Regional Film and TV Academy, which will, in addition to deciding on the annual awards, take on the idea of transferring knowledge and experience to a new generation of film and TV professionals and serve to promote and protect the profession throughout the region.
The award ceremony will take place in the winter ambience of the Olympic mountains around Sarajevo. The first edition of the regional film awards ceremony is planned at Jahorina in January 2024.
SFF director Jovan Marjanović believes that the valorization of the best regional films by the profession will contribute to their even stronger positioning and visibility on the domestic market.
- The fact that none of the countries in the region has its own separate film and TV academy is indicative, and we think that from these activities, one such organization will naturally arise that will serve to rejuvenate, promote and protect our profession - said Marjanović.
The news of the annual regional film awards was announced at the Ponta Lopud Festival.
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