written and directed by > VINKO MDERNDORFER
Born in 1958 in Celje. He is one of the top and most prolific Slovenian artists. Graduated in theatre direction from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and television with the performance Snuba (The Proposal) by A. P. Chekov in 1982. In the last twenty years he directed 80 theatre and opera performances, several radio plays and 12 TV plays and documentaries based on his own scripts. He writes dramas, poems, novellas, novels, screenplays, essays and radio plays. He has published 29 books. He received several important awards for his work, the Bortnik Award (the national award for the greatest achievements in theatre) for the direction of Potujoe gledalie opalovi by L. Simovi (1986), the upani Award (the most important award that the city of Ljubljana gives for important artistic achievements) for his collection of novellas Krog male smrti (1994), the award of the Preeren's Fund (the most important national award for extraordinary artistic achievements) for his book of novellas Nekatere ljubezni (2000), The Roanc Award (the award for the best collection of essays) for his book of essays Gledalie v ogledalu (2002), the first prizes for best comedy text at the Days of Comedy in Celje for his comedies Vaja zbora (1998), Limonada slovenica (1999), Podnajemnik (2001), Na kmetih (2003) and many others.
Filmography - Feature film:
Predmestje (Suburbs), 2004
Filmography - TV plays and documentary
films based on his own scripts:
Blumen aus Krain - Roc'e s Kranjskega, TVS 1992
Vsi smo le norci, a portrait
of the opera singer Ferdinand Radovan,
TVS 1994
Vesele zgodbe iz zakonskega ivljenja (a series of four plays),
TVS 1995
Paradi, TVS 1996
Drevo, TVS 1996
Pokrajina, TVS 1996
Pesmi za mamke, a portrait
of the composer Janez Bitenc, TVS
1998
Stoji stoji en beli grad, documentary,
TVS 1999
lovek v ipi, a portrait of
the writer Peter Boi, TVS 1999
ivljenje je vredno le, e je poezija,
a portrait of the poet Ervin Fritz,
TVS 2000
Silvestrska zmenjava, TVS
2001
Milo Mikeln, TVS 2002
producer > EVA ROHRMAN
The founder and manager of Forum Ljubljana, the institute for artistic and cultural production, which was founded in 1994 and is, as far as the program is concerned, the successor of the first civilian society KD Forum, founded in the end of the sixties in the former Yugoslavia. As such Forum Ljubljana took over and continued the first Slovenian independent video production and in the nineties became the leading independent producer of video and art projects in the field of performance and new media in Slovenia. The producer Eva Rohrman has from 1990 to 2003 produced 20 films and documentary video films (most of them in co-production with VPK and TV Slovenia), 6 performances, 3 projects in the field of new media, 6 multimedia exhibitions, etc. (most of them in co-production with Cankarjev dom, Galerija kapelica and the Slovenian National Museum), and organized a collection of video production (more than 70 works), created in the period from 1982-1990, which is stored by the Film Archive of the Republic of Slovenia.
The film Predmestje (Suburbs) is her first feature film production.
director of photography > DUAN JOKSIMOVI
Born in 1963 in Belgrade. Studied at the Faculty of Drama Arts on Belgrade at the department of Film and TV camera. He is a renowned director of photography with a rich filmography. He worked with a distinguished Serbian director Srdjan Dragojevi on feature films Mi nismo aneli (1992), Lepa sela lepo gore (1996) and Rane (1998). He was the director of photography for the films Munje by Radivoj Andri, Do koske by Slobodan Skerli (1998), the international co-production Luna Papa (1999), television film Marche chinois (2001), and many others. In Slovenia he has, apart from Vinko Mderndorfer, also worked with Andrej Koak on the film Zvenenje v glavi (2002).
editor > ANDRIJA ZAFRANOVI
Born in 1947 in Split. Graduated in film and TV editing in 1975 from the FAMU in Prague. Works as an editor, supervisor and script consultant. He is a full professor and the head of the department for editing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. He edited more than 70 feature and television films and dozens of TV serials in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Paris, Istanbul, Prague, Mnchen and Vienna. A number of films that he worked on were shown at the most important world film festivals and received awards. He received three Golden Arenas for editing at the Yugoslav Film Festival in Pulj. He worked on the films Otac na slubenom putu (1985), Dom za veanje (1989) and Arizona Dream (1993) by Emir Kusturica, Balkanski pijun by the directors Boidar Nikoli and Duan Kovaevi (1984), ivot je lep by Bora Drakovi (1985), Veernja zvona by Lordan Zafranovi (1986), Gluvi barut by Bata engi (1990), aruga by Rajko Grlia (1991), Rezervni deli by Damjan Kozole (2003) and many others.
music > JANI GOLOB
Born in 1948 in Ljubljana. Composer, violinist and pedagogue. In his rich creative period he was the violinist in the Symphonic Orchestra of RTV Slovenia, the editor for classical music and ballet on TV Slovenia, a professor at the Academy of Music and the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, and a member of several international juries at the music festivals. He is a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts. He received several awards and acknowledgements for his work, among them also the Award of the Preeren's Fund in the year 2000. His musical opus besides chamber music and orchestral works also incorporates film and popular music. He released eight records and wrote the music for the films Dih by Boo prajc (1983), Leta odloitve (1984), Veselo gostvanje by France tiglic (1984), Poletje v koljki I and II by Tugo tiglic (1986, 1988), Heretik (1986), isto pravi gusar by Anton Tomai (1987), Odpadnik by Boo prajc (1988), Coprnica Zofka by Matija Milinski (1989), Nekdo drug by Botjan Vrhovec (1989), and Patriot (1999).
sound > JULIJ ZORNIK, DRAGAN CENERI, MARJAN CIMPERMAN
Julij Zornik was born in 1974 in Ljubljana. He is a part-owner of the sound studio 100 d.o.o. from Ljubljana, where he designs the sound for commercials and short, animated, documentary and feature films. As a sound designer he worked on the films Socializacija bika by the directors Zvonko oh and Milan Eri (1998), Moku by the director Andrej Mlakar (2000), Oda Preernu by Martin Srebotnjak (2001), Sladke sanje by Sao Podgorek (2001), Zadnja veerja by Vojko Anzeljc (2001) and Rezervni deli by Damjan Kozole (2003).
Dragoslav Ceneri was born in 1942 in Belgrade. He started working on sound design for audio-visual projects in 1970. Since then he worked on numerous feature, documentary and animated films (more than 120). He was also an associate professor at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, while in 1992 he became a member of the Academy for Film Arts and Science. He worked with several renowned directors, among them with Slobodan ijan on the films Ko to tamo peva (1980), Maratonci tre poasni krug (1982), Davitelj protiv davitelja (1984) etc., with Srdjan Karanovi on the films Grlom u jagode (1985), Petrijin venac 1980), Miris poljskog cvea (1978), Neto izmedju (1983) etc, with Emir Kusturica on the films Underground (1995), Crna maka beli maor (1998) etc., with Karpo Godina on the film Splav meduze (1980), Franci Slak on the Hudodelci (1987) and others.
Marjan Cimperman was born in 1949 in Ljubljana. Since 1970 he works at RTV Slovenia as a sound technician. He participated in the making of several television films and broadcasts and on several Slovenian feature films. As a boom operator he worked on Matja Klopi's Cvetje v jeseni (1973), while as a sound mixer he worked on the serials Ljubezen nam je vsem v pogubo by Joe Gale (1987), Pripovedke iz medenega cvetlinjaka by Boo prajc and Roce s Kranjskega by Vinko Mderndorfer (1992), and on the feature films Temni angeli usode by Sao Podgorek (1999), Varuh meje by Maja Weiss (2002), Rezervni deli (2003) by Damjan Kozole and many others.
script consultant > BLA LUKAN
Born in 1955. A dramaturge, publicist and theatre critic. Graduated in dramaturgy from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. He was the art director of the theatres Glej and SLG Celje. He worked on more than fourty dramaturgies in the Slovenian theatres, among them on several performances directed by Vinko Mderndorfer. As a script consultant he worked on the feature film Christophoros by the director Andrej Mlakar (1985) and wrote seceral screenplays for television, the drama Mrtvi (SNG Maribor), published several expert publications (Dramaturke replike, Dramaturke figure, Dramaturki pojmovnik za mlade, Slovenska dramaturgija, etc.) and collections of poetry (the last one entitled Tkanja).
set designer > ANDREJ STRAIAR
Born in 1962. In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy in Ljubljana with the B.A. thesis on the set design for the film Kavarna Astorija (1989) by the director Joe Poganik. Already during his studies he assisted Niko Matul on the set design for the feature film Moj ata socialistini kulak by Matja Klopi (1987). Since then he has worked as a set designer for feature films, television, theatres, opera and ballet, state-funded and other formal events and publicity actions. Film an TV set design (a selection): rna orhideja and Gospodina Mary by Matja Klopi (1989, 1992), Pasje ivljenje by Igor mid, Adrian by Maja Weiss (1998), Roce s kranjskega by Vinko Mderndorfer (1992), Strah pred pristajanjem by Polona Sepe (1995), Dergi in Roza v kraljestvu svizca (2004) by Boris Jurjaevi.
costumes designer > ALENKA KORLA
Born in 1973 in Ljubljana. During her studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering - textiles technology, department of textiles and clothes design, she participated in fashion shows in Slovenia and abroad. As assistant costumes designer she worked on the feature films Ljubljana by Igor terk (2002), Oda Preernu by Martin Srebotnjak (2001), film omnibus Marmelada by Hanna A. W. Slak, Varja Monik, Boris Petkovia and Zoran ivulovi (in postproduction), the films Zvenenje v glavi by Andrej Koak (2002), Rezervni deli by Damjan Kozole (2003), Ruevine by Janez Burger (in postproduction), Pod njenim oknom by Metod Pevec (2003) and on several short films and theatre performances.
makeup artist > ALJANA HAJDINJAK
Born in 1964 in Murska Sobota. As a makeup artist she worked on a number of Slovenian feature and short films and co-productions, among others on Morana by Ale Verbi (1993), Carmen by Metod Pevec (1995), Herzog by Mitja Milavec (1997), Porno film by Damjan Kozole (2000), Hop, Skip and Jump by Srdjan Vuleti (2000), Kruh in mleko by Jan Cvitkovi (2001), Varuh meje by Maja Weiss (2002), (A)torzija by Stefan Arsenijevi (2002), Pod njenim oknom by Metod Pevec (2003) and on several international co-productions.
co-producer > Danijel HOEVAR
Director and producer of Emotionfilm,
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