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Dimitar Anakiev, an independent filmmaker, writer and poet, was born in Belgrade in 1960. He completed High Medical School in Niš, Serbia in 1986 and worked seven years as an MD. He resided in Slovenia beginning in 1987 but shortly thereafter and without warning found himself among the victims of administrative ethnic cleansing ("Erased"), the result of secret legislation enacted 26.2.1992 by the democratic Slovenian government one year after the disintegration of the state of Yugoslavia. For 10 years he was compelled to live without personal documents (such as passport or personal identification), rendering him an invisible prisoner of the Slovenian democracy. At this point he purchased a small video camera and began his film career, in an attempt to make himself and other marginal Balkan people visible. The success of his films (including the Slovenian national film award) has made it possible for him to continue filmmaking as a producer, director and teacher. His company, Dimitar Anakiev Films s.p.-DAF (now Anakiev Production, FDA) specializes in socially engaged films of the Balkans in the post-communist era. Anakiev is a founding member of the Slovenian Director Guild, and a member of the Slovenian Filmmaker Association.

Films

Amigo, 36min, DV, KDZ Tolmin-AFC Beograd, 2003 Rubbed Out, 45 min, DV, Dimitar Anakiev Films, Tolmin, 2004 ''Happy New Year! (2005)'', 6’34’’ min, DAF & KRUG, Nis-Tolmin,2005 King of the Road, 7’, DAF, 2005, Tolmin Ti si jedini gazda ove kuće, 15’, 35 mm, DAF, 2006, Tolmin Trde rime, 9', Super-8 mm, DAF, Tolmin, 2006 Šta je mati biti, DV, 28',DAF, Radovljica, 2007 Srpski ekseri, DV, 50',DAF, Radovljica, 2007 Poslednji Žilnik, 61', DV, DAF-Film Fokus, Radovljica-Niš, 2007 Moj ljubi geto,47',DV, DAF, Radovljica, 2008 Tolminci, 43 min, DV, FDA, Radovljica,2008 Državljan A.T., 55 min, HD, FDA, Brusselles-Radovljica, 2010 Normalno življenje, 86 min, HD, FDA, Radovljica, 2011

Film Festivals

Belgrade 2003, Kaljuga-Moscow 2003, Sarajevo 2003, Kobarid 2003, Celje 2003, Ljubljana PI-FF (Politicaly Incorect Film Festival) 2004, 2005, Ljubljana 7.SFS (Festival of Slovenian Film) 2004, IDF Amsterdam 2004, Ljubljana PI-FF, 2005, 8.FSF, Portorož, 2005, Golden Apricot, Ereven 2006, 9. FSF, Portorož 2006, Amakula 2006 Kampala, Uganda; Montpellier 2007, IDF Amsterdam 2007, DokMa 2007 Maribor, DokMa, Maribor, 2008, ZagrebDox 2008, 9. Mediteranian Film Festival Široki Brijeg (BIH), 2008, Vidovin, Tolmin, 2008, DokMa, Maribor, 2009, DOC EUROPA, Lisbon, 2009.

Film Awards

Vesna National Award for Documentary Film, Celje, 2003 High Artistic Achievement, Golden Knight, Kaljuga-Moscow, 2003 Best Documentary, DokMa 2007, international competition, Maribor, 2007 Bronze Horseshoe 2008, Asterfest, Strumica, 2008

Poetry and essays

Anakiev is also an internationally renowned haiku poet, editor and essayist. He began writing haiku in 1985, and is considered the “grandfather“ of many Balkan haiku projects such as Haiku novine (Haiku Newspapers, Serbia 1993), Prijatelj (Slovenia 1996) and Apokalips haiku edition (1996 Slovenia). He is co-founder of the World Haiku Association [1] with Jim Kacian and Ban'ya Natsuishi. One of the best known haiku by Anakiev is broadcast on BBC London in August 2000:

Spring evening. The wheel of a troop carrier crushes a lizard.

Selected Books

Ptičija staza, 1995, Prosveta, Niš (in Serbian) Pticha pateka, 1996, Matom, Sofia (in Bulgarian) Lastovke, 1998, Ljubljana (in Slovenian) At the Tombstone, 2003, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English) Balcony, 2006, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English) Kosovo Peony, 2008, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English) Rustic, 2010, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English)  Literary Awards

European Award: Medal of Franz Kafka, 1999, Prague The Museum of Haiku Literature Award, 2000, Tokyo Haiku Society of America Annual Merit Book Award, 2003 Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers' Choice Award, 2009, Dublin  Editor (periodicals)

Haiku Novine, 1993–present, Niš, Serbia Prijatelj 1996-1998, Tolmin, Slovenia

Editor (books)

Knots: An Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku, 1999, Prijatelj, Slovenia (co-edited with Jim Kacian, English) Pound of Silence, anthology of Slovenian haiku, 2005, Apokalipsa, Ljubljana Encyclopedia Britannica editor of SouthEastern European Literature, 2000-2001

E-novine

Anakiev is also regular contributor of E-novine (E-news), regional news portal in Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Monenegrian: www.e-novine.com

Interviews

Dimitar Anakiev intervieved by Špela Raspotnik (“Kings of the Road” No.6/2006): []

Video interview with Dimitar Anakiev by Igor Mašera (Slovenian, 2008) []

Films online

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