Sarajevo FF Cinelink News

These days I receive many press releases from the Sarajevo FF. About films to be shown and about what is going to happen at the industry platform CineLink that as usual brings makers behind films-to-be together with potential funders. In the category Works-in Progress I see with pleasure that great Ukranian director Alisa Kovalenko will be present with a project called “Frontline”. Also, in the co-production market, old friends Bulgarian Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova will present a project that has this annotation: “Overweight ANDREA writes slogans for sex toys for a French company in Bulgaria. Her aim to have a child as a gender fluid person in the Balkans will meet a few obstacles but a mystical ancestor helps…”.

But – take a look at the photo of this two nice people, who have invited me to the festival year after year and read this text taken from one of the press releases about the young man to the right Ishak Jalimam:

The Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry platform, CineLink Industry Days, is entering a new chapter with leadership changes involving long-standing team member. This year, Maša Marković, who continues as Head of Industry for the third year, is joined by Ishak Jalimam, who has been appointed the new Head of CineLink. Amra Bakšić Čamo, Head of CineLink since its inception, has stepped down from this role to focus on developing new projects under Sarajevo Film Festival’s umbrella.

Jalimam, a Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts graduate, brings extensive experience in production and management, with involvement in prestigious film festivals and as a producer at the Sarajevo War Theater. He has worked on numerous films that have screened at festivals like Sundance, Venice, and Sarajevo. Jalimam is the founder and president of Realstage Productions. In 2020, he received the Young Producers Award at the Sofia Film Festival—Sofia Meetings…

In the film programme I notice that “Intercepted” by Oksana Karpovych is to be shown, it has been reviewed on this site: https://filmkommentaren.dk/oksana-karpovych-intercepted/.

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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