Academic program is going to be held every day at the Youth Theatre and Radio Cafe from 15th to 20th of June for all who wish to participate, and it is dedicated to young people, students, but also to all who like film. Fourteen panels are going to encompass different current issues of the film art and industry, and the program moderator is Jugoslav Pantelić.
“Ex-Yu inspiration for ex-Yu Co-production“ is a panel that presents the possibilities of co-production projects of former Yugoslav republics. Vinko Brešan, Dejan Vražalić and Predrag Vušović are going to participate in the panel. A successful directorial path “From Talent Campus to Sundance” is going to be presented by two directors who started their careers at “Talent Campus” in Berlin - Lance Hammer and Stefan Arsenijević. Natalie Asuline is going to talk about two-year project of recording Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prison “Sharon”; and master class is also going to be led by famous Iranian director Majid Majidi.
Possibilities and problems of “Making a Movie in Serbia” are going to be revealed by Dimitrije Vojnov, Nataša Vranješ and Saša Radojević through conversation with young professionals; an important topic, “New Balkan Film” is going to be presented by Ana Uzunović, Ana Belopavlović and Višnja Nikitin. There are going to be two special programs connected with festival film selections: “The Fall of Rock and Roll” where Dragan Ambrozić, Kebra and Toni Sarić are going to talk about film and music, and “Horroring”, a round table introducing a specific film genre, with Miloš Tomin, Saša Radojević, Zoran Janjetov, Vladimir Kopicli and Dejan Ognjanović talking about horror film.
Opus and Artistic expression of Lee Chang-dong is going to be presented by Moon So-ri, multiply awarded actress from “Oasis”, the film that made this author famous, and Peter Van Bueren, a film critic and a jury member. Furthermore, numerous workshops sre to be held, where the participants are going to meet such film professionals as Uroš Stojanović, Srdan Golubović, Kristijan Milić, Dejan Zečević, Miroslav Milinković, Nebojša Radosavljević, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Marko Kostić, Vladislava Vojnović, Darko Bajić, Gracia Querejeta, David Veerbek, Nina Paley and many more.
