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Zeljko Mirkovic

Serbia

director, producer

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Title/Occupation:  Director  Producer 

Services Provided:  Film Schools Training Centers  Film/Video Editing  Foundations/Funding Source  Post Production Facility  Seminars/Workshops 

Gender: Male

Race: None

Languages Spoken: english

Brief Message to Members: 

Optimistic film is film production who offers you the best creative documentaries, that gives you different storytelling angles in history and human stories, bringing you interesting characters and real emotions”

Biography: 

ZELJKO MIRKOVIC
Profile:
Awarded film and TV director and producer at international festivals and workshops
Scriptwriter and co-producer with fundraising experience and management experience.
Experience in creating and leading various media campagnies.
Creative and skilful in projects writing.
Tutor at media workshops.
Very skilful in camera and nonlinear editing Final Cut Pro.

Education:
• 2010 European Television Management Academy, Strasbourg, France and Bournemouth University, UK,- postgradute media studies
• 1995-1999 -The Academy of Art "Braca Karic" Belgrade, department of TV Directing -average 95 % of 100%.

Awards
• Tv documentary OLD MAN IN HIS 26th (director, 25 min. TV Vojvodina 2010)
Grand Prix- TV festival Zlatna Buklija, Velika Plana, Seria, 2010

• Tv documentary Importance of SCULTURE (director, 25 min. TV Vojvodina 2009)
Award for the best directing- Balkan TV festival Press Vitez, Novi Sad, Srbija, 2009

• Documentary THE 21ST SECOND (producer, scripwritter, director, 55 min. Optimistic film 2008)
- Award for best directing- International Festival “Zlatna Buklija “ Velika Plana , Serbia, april 2009
- Award for best directing- International Festival of Aviation Motion Picture Budapest, Hungary, march 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival Dialektus, Budapest, Hungary, 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival ZagrebDox, Croatia, February 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival "Prvi Kadar", Sarajevo, Bosna and Hercegovina, October 2008
• documentary MUHAREM MUSIC THE EYES OF LIFE (scripwritter, director,,28min. 2005, KRUG)
- Award for Original Film -International Tour Film Festival, Plock 2006, Poland
- First award for directing - Documentary Film Festival "Golden Jug"-Serbia 2006
- First award for photography- Documentary Film Festival "Golden Jug" -Serbia 2006
- The Best National Film- International Ethnographic Film Festival, Serbia, 2005
- Grand Prix "Golden Beggar"- Kosice, Slovakia,2005
- Award of National TV Romania, Slatioara Romania,2005
• documentary NASTASIA (scripwritter, director,28min. 2000, UNIFOR SYSTEMS)
MITIL Vevey Switzerland-nomination for the best documentary, 2001
• documentary FROM NIS TO SERBIA: IT’S NOW OR NEVER (scripwritter, director,28min. 2000, UNIFOR SYSTEMS)
-The First Prize”The Golden Olive”, International TV Festival Bar, Montenegro 2000
• THE ELDERS FROM HIGHLANDS -tv film (scripwritter, director,25min. 2004, PI Canal)
- 2nd prize- Eco Ethno International Film Festival, Slatioara, Romania, 2004
• promotional film Nis 2003- The City of Children (scripwritter, director, 10min. 2003, City Council of Nis)
- The first prize- Euro cities, Porto Portugal

Language skills: Serbian, English, Russian, Slavic /Croatian, Macedonian, Bosnian/- high levels

Workshops:
• Pitching Forum ZagrebDox-Croatia 2009-how to write and sell documentary in the worldtutors- tutors: Tue Steen Muller, Cecilia Lidin
• ZagrebDox-Croatia 2005-how to write and sell documentary in the worldtutors- Tue Steen Muller, president of EDN; Sabine Bubeck, ZDF/ARTE, Germany:Rada Šešić, Jan Vrijman Fund, The Netherlands, Heino Deckert, Deckert Distribution, Germany
• 1000 Young Serbian leaders- Public office od President of Serbian Republic- leader in culture
• Emir Kusturica International summer School Mokra Gora-2005
- Zeljko's script won and was chosen by Emir Kusturica and it was done short movie THE WEDDING CABBAGE
• Pitching Documentary Forum Thessaloniki, Greece- march 2003
Tutors: Paul Pauwels- producer Belgium, Nanad Puhovski- Factum Croatia, Ike Betels chairman of EDN, Stefano Tealdi- producer Italy, Jacob Hegel- Danish Film Institute
• Goethe Institute – pitching for shorts films, 2001
• European Documentary Network - how to pitch documentary, 2001, Belgrade

Memberships:
European Documentary Network- EDN

Teaching experience:
• Coordinator of project "Flowers of Need" and directing and documentary lecturer - Resource Center on project of World Bank-duration 6 months
• Directing lecturer - Workshop -Megatrend University
• Directing lecturer - Workshop of Local Development Agency- duration 6 months, 2005

Publishing:
 About Pitching Forum- TV Magazine LINK, Novi Sad, Serbia 2007
 With Tue Steen Muller about documentary- Magazine TFT, Belgrade, Serbia2009; Institute for Documentary Film, www.dokweb.net, Prague, Czech Repubic, 2009
 With Paul Pauwels about media and documentary- TV Magazine LINK, Novi Sad, Serbia 2009 ; Institute for Documentary Film, http://www.dokweb.net, Prague, Czech Repubic, 2009
 With Rada Sesic “Documentary Renaissance” Institute for Documentary Film, http://www.dokweb.net, Prague, Czech Repubic, 2009

Writing for Blog:
www.b92.net

Work experience:
• Optimistic film- owner, www.optimisticfilm.com
• Radio Television Vojvodina- director in documentary department, 2009- current
- director of tv documentaries
• City Council of Nis, Mayor's Cabinet- director of media promotion, 2002-2009
- Director of promotional films, clips, media campaigns, interviews, theatre presentations
• Film & TV Production KRUG- Art Director, 2002- 2006
- Director of promotional films, clips, media campaigns, documentaries, TV series and short films
- Author of media projects
• NGO Comiteefor Civic Initiative -director, 2002-2005
-director for tv news and documentaries for their projects
• Television of Nis - TV director, 2001-2002
- Director of 2 awarded documentaries, director of documentary TV series /66 episodes/
• Military Film Center "Zastava film" - 2000
- Director of one documentary, one promotional film
- 1st assistant director of 2 feature documentaries
• Radio Television Montenegro - TV director, 1999
- Director of 6 documentaries
• Radio Television of Serbia- 1998
-1st. assistant director of the feature TV film "Pharmacy Golubovic"

Distinctive works:
Documentaries:
• I WILL MARRY THE WHOLE (producer/director/script, 56 min. 2009/10, Optimistic film)
Peca, an accordion player, have decided to marry all the unmarried men in his village. His motto is „I’m going to marry the whole village, even if I regret it“. He is naive, he is a modern Don Quixote.Doccomedy – a music documentary about a Serbian village and an ordinary man who wants to change the system
• THE LONG ROAD THROUGH BALKAN HISTORY/script and director, 58min, 2010 SEETV, Belgium/
Two writers, Miljenko Jergovic from Croatia and Marko Vidojkovic from Serbia, share the driving in a Yugo, the ultimate symbol of their common past, and drive it from one end to the other of the road once known as the "Highway of Brotherhood and Unity".
- Zagreb Dox Croatia, march 2010
- Festivalul Balkan Trafik 8-11 April 2010, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Beldocs, Belgrade, Serbia, april 2010
- Sarajevo film festival,Bosnia, july 2010
- Dokufest, Prizren, Kosovo, august,2010
- Herceg Novi, Montenegro, august,2010
• KOSOVO DIARY
Three ordinary people from Serbia go on journey to Kosovo. A student, an actor and a journalist decided to explore this troubled place for themselves.
 tv premiereRTS Serbia, 17.07. 2008
• THE 21ST SECOND (producer/director/script,56 min. 2008, Optimistic film)
A movie about ex colonel in SCG Army, Dani Zoltan , who was the leader of a team who shot down famous “Invisible” F-117 A, and who works as a baker now
 tv premiere RTS Serbia, 27.03. 2008
 TV BN Bosnia and Herzegovina
 TV MTV Hungary
 TV Catalunya, Spain
- Award for best directing- International Festival “Zlatna Buklija “ Velika Plana , Serbia, april 2009
- Award for best directing- International Festival of Aviation Motion Picture Budapest, Hungary, march 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival Dialektus, Budapest, Hungary, 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival ZagrebDox, Croatia, February 2009
- Special mention- Internacional film festival "Prvi Kadar", Sarajevo, Bosna and Hercegovina, October 2008
Other festivals:
- Paris- France, Serbian Film Festival,Chicago- USA, Serbian Film Festival, Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jihlava Film Festival-Czech Republic, Ghuangzou Film Festival- Chiina, TV Festival Bar- Montenegro
Film Festival Beldocs, Begrade, april 2009
• MUHAREM, MUSIC THE EYES OF LIFE (producer/director/script, 27 min. 2005,)
About blind Gypsy musician who communicates with other world through his music.
 tv premiere RTS Serbia
- Award for Original Film -International Tour Film Festival, Plock 2006, Poland
- First award for directing - Documentary Film Festival "Golden Jug"-Serbia 2006
- First award for photography- Documentary Film Festival "Golden Jug" -Serbia 2006
- The Best National Film- International Ethnographic Film Festival, Serbia, 2005
- Grand Prix "Golden Beggar"- Kosice, Slovakia,2005
- Award of National TV Romania, Slatioara Romania,2005

• MY WORLD (written & directed, 60 min. 2002)
About media reflection on children after 10 year of wars in Yugoslavia
- BUFF International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Malmo Sweden,march 2003
- European premiere- Graz, november 2002
- “Golden Eye” Popovo, Bulgaria, november 2002
• NASTASIA (camera, written & directed, 17min.)
Young couple is waiting a baby's birth and falling of regime of Slobodan Milosevic
- Raindance Film Festival, London, 2002
- Review of documentaries-Library St. Sava London, 2002
- SEE Docs in Dubrovnik, 2001
- MITIL Vevey Switzerland-nomination for the best documentary, 2001
- GOETHE FORUM Munich, 2001
• FROM NIS TO SERBIA: IT’S NOW OR NEVER (camera, script ,director,12min.2000,)
About a day when the regime of Slobodan Milosevic was fall
- Review of documentaries -Library St. Sava London, 2002
- The First Prize ”The Golden Olive”, International TV Festival in Bar, Montenegro 2000
• THE LOVES OF THE SOLDIERS (written & directed, 25min., Zastava film)
They are in the army and they are dreaming about their real and imagine loves.

TV Documentaries:
• Tv documentary OLD MAN IN HIS 26th (director, 25 min. TV Vojvodina 2010)
Grand Prix- TV festival Zlatna Buklija, Velika Plana, Srbija, 2010
• Tv documentary WHY FOR SCULTURE (director, 25 min. TV Vojvodina 2009)
Award for the best directing- Balkan TV festival Press Vitez, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2009
• BAPSIS’S STORY (written & directed, 14min., 1999, RTCG)
• MISSION (IM) POSSIBLE (written & directed, 12min., 1999, RTCG)
• UNTIL THE END (written & directed, 15min., 1999, RTCG)
• TO THE ARMY WITH A DIPLOMA (written & directed, 11min., 1999, RTCG)
• THE WINNERS (written & directed, 9min., 1999, RTCG)
/Five short stories about different ordinary people who decides to fight against regime of Slobodan Milosevic on their own ways/