User:Great Comforter/Faruk Lončarević

Faruk Loncarevic, born in 1975 in Sarajevo where he graduated Academy of Performing Arts that he attends during war. He was a programmer for Sarajevo Film Festival, head of National Film Archive, head of sales and acquisitions on national TV; he directed more than 150 hours of TV programme and few theatre performances, including Strindberg, Wedekind and Shakespeare. Also, he wrote more than 100 theoretical texts about film as well as theoretical study Long Shot of History.

2003-2005 he had been studding Traditional Dance at ISBI, Bandung and doing research of theatre in Indonesia. During his stay he produces several TV reportages and documentary “Kiamat Kecil”, 2005. Film is testimony of tsunami aftermath in Aceh and the first feature documentary reportage about tsunami.

Upon return he directs his first film Mum ‘n’ Dad, 2006. Premiere was on Sarajevo Film Festival where it won Jury Award. After screening on Rotterdam Film Festival, it went to dozens of festivals, receiving few international awards.

Next fiction feature With Mom premiered in Sarajevo in 2013 and won CineEurope award. After that it played around the world including New York, Hamburg. It was Bosnian candidate for Academy Award that year. Films was sold around the world.

He produces, writes, edits and directs his 3rd feature fiction film Tako da ne ostane živa (So She Doesn’t Live), premiered on International Film Festival Trieste 2021 (Special Mention of the Jury), Valencia Film Festival of Mediterranean 2021 (Paloma del Oro for best film). Singlehandedly sold the film around Europe.

He is a member of European Film Academy.

He’s tenured professor of Film Art, History, Aesthetics and Analysis at University of Sarajevo-Academy of Performing Arts for almost 20 years now. Also teaches screenwriting, directing and producing. Since 2021 he has been a dean of the Academy.

He also participated as external experts in public funds assessment including National Film Fund of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Eurimages.