Film

Cinema Komunisto arrives in America

• Fascinating
• Nostalgia
• Inspirational

After five years of work, CINEMA KOMUNISTO has become the talk of film festivals around Europe. This feature documentary tells the story of the old communist film studios in Belgrade that are today a ghost town of abandoned sets and rotting costumes, but which in their golden age hosted stars such as Orson Welles, Sophia Loren, and Kirk Douglas. Yugoslav film legends such as Bata Zivojinovic and Veljko Bulajic are our guides behind-the-scenes of Yugoslav cinema, while Tito's personal projectionist who showed him a film every night for 32 years tells how President Tito's love of cinema influenced the history of Yugoslavia.

Screen International called CINEMA KOMUNISTO:

"a fascinating and absorbing documentary...a must for film fans...wonderfully tracks the history of former Yugoslavia through its cinema"

The film's world premiere took place in competition at the largest documentary film festival in the world, IDFA in Amsterdam, and since then CINEMA KOMUNISTO has began a triumphant festival tour in Europe, winning awards for Best Documentary Film (Trieste Film Festival) and the Audience Award (Views of the World/Cyprus). In February 2011, CINEMA KOMUNISTO became the first Serbian documentary in many years to enter regular cinema distribution in Serbia, screening in several multiplex cinemas in Belgrade. We are very proud that the film will soon be travelling to North America.

The US premiere of the film will take place at the Tribeca Film Festival, in the World Documentary Competition, after which we go on to San Francisco and HotDocs in Toronto.

We are using RocketHub to Fuel this North American Tour, which will include Q&A sessions after screenings, participation in panels of documentary scriptwriting, and many other special events.

Ideally, the result of a strong showing in these festivals would lead to a theatrical release of CINEMA KOMUNISTO in art-house cinemas in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadephia, Boston, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. We want you to participate in bringing CINEMA KOMUNISTO to North America. Without the costs of advertisement and publicity, the making and shipping of the film prints, and travel costs of the director and crew, we won't be able to achieve our goal of propelling the film forward.

In return for your Fuel, we are giving some extremely cool rewards (like hard to get tickets for Gala premiere and official screening of CINEMA KOMUNISTO at Tribeca Festival, rare vintage film posters of Yugoslav films from 50s and 60s and many more!).

For more information on the movie, the trailer and information on our upcoming screening and distribution plans, please visit the website: www.cinemakomunisto.com or find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21150547828

best,

Mila 

SRPSKI:

Nakon pet godina rada, CINEMA  KOMUNISTO je trijumfalno počeo svoj bioskopski život. Ovaj dugometražni dokumentarac vas vodi u priču o državnom filmskom gradu u Beogradu, koji je danas zapušten i zaboravljen svet urušenih scenografija i prašnjavih kostima, ali čije zlatno doba pamti holIvudske zvezde poput Orsona Velsa, Sofije Loren i Kirka Daglasa. Legende jugoslovenskog filma Bata Živojinović i Veljko Bulajić naši su vodili iza kulisa jugoslovenskog filma, dok Titov lični kino-operater koji mu je 32 godine puštao film svako veče otkriva način na koji je Titova ljubav spram filma uticala na istoriju. 

Po oceni čuvenog Screen International CINEMA KOMUNISTO, "je fascinantan i uzbudljiv dokumentarac.. koji obavezno treba da pogleda svako ko se interesuje za film.. jer sjajno predstavlja istoriju bivše Jugoslavije kroz priču o njenoj kinematografiji" 

Svetska premijera filma održana je u takmičarskom programu na najvećem festivalu dokumentarnih filmova na svetu, IDFA u Amsterdamu, i zatim je usledila uzbudljiva festivalska turneja po Evropi, na kojoj je film osvojio nagradu Alpe Adria Cinema na Festivalu u Trstu, za najbolji dokumentarni film, kao i nagradu publike na Festivalu Views of the World na Kipru. U februaru 2011. CINEMA KOMUNISTO je postao prvi srpski dokumentarac nakon dugo godina koji je ušao u redovnu bioskopsku distribuciju i to u multipleks bioskopima u Beogradu. Veoma smo ponosni na činjenicu da je nakon toga usledio poziv da film putuje i u Severnu Ameriku. 

Američka premijera CINEMA KOMUNISTO održaće se na Tribeca Film Festivalu, u takmičarskom programu World Documentary Competition, nakon čega film učestvuje na festivalima u San Francisku i Torontu (HotDocs).

Pokrenuli smo akciju na RocketHub kako bi pomogli severno-američku turneju filma, koja će uključiti i razgovore sa publikom, učešće na panelima o dokumentarnom filmu, i druge značajne događaje.  

Cilj nam je da učešćem na ovim festivalima privučemo pažnju, kako publike tako i distributera, da bismo obezbedili bioskopsko prikazivanje CINEMA KOMUNISTO u uglednim art-house bioskopima u Americi i Kanadi (Njujork, San Francisko, Losandjeles, Čikago, Filadelfija, Boston, Sijetl, Toronto, i Vankuver). Zato vas molimo da nam pomognete da dovedemo CINEMA KOMUNISTO u Severnu Ameriku kako bi što više ljudi imalo priliku da ga vidi u bioskopima. Bez pokrivenih troškova oglašavanja i promocije, izrade i transporta kopija filma, i putovanja predstavnika ekipe, nećemo biti u prilici da ostvarimo naš cilji.

U zamenu za pogon, nudimo vam vredne i zanimljive nagrade - uključujući i karte za Gala premijeru u Njujorku na Tribeca Festivalu, kojih ima u veoma ograničenom broju, kao i retke filmske plakata domaćih filmova iz 50-tih i 60-tih godina, kao i mnoge druge stvari.

Za više informacije o filmu, trejler i raspored festivalskih projekcije, pogledajte naš sajt www.cinemakomunisto.com ili nam se pridružite na Fejsbuku http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21150547828

Hvala na podršci!

Mila