Boris Mitic
Encyclopedia
Boris Mitić is a documentary film
aker from Belgrade
, Serbia
.
Mitić worked as a professional journalist when he decided to buy a camera and film his first film Pretty Dyana (2003) on his own, using a home computer
for production. The film, describing the life of the Roma in the outskirts of Belgrade through a story of a Citroën
car model which they use to collect recyclable garbage for a living, became popular at festivals (over 60 in total) and received 11 awards. He also directed UNMIK Titanik (2004), a documentary about 100 people who couldn't leave their UN-protected building for over four years. His third film, Goodbye, how are you? (2009), is a collage Serbian sights and satirical aphorisms.
Mitić encourages copyleft
distribution of his films.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
aker from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
, Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
.
Mitić worked as a professional journalist when he decided to buy a camera and film his first film Pretty Dyana (2003) on his own, using a home computer
Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...
for production. The film, describing the life of the Roma in the outskirts of Belgrade through a story of a Citroën
Citroën
Citroën is a major French automobile manufacturer, part of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group.Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën , Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that...
car model which they use to collect recyclable garbage for a living, became popular at festivals (over 60 in total) and received 11 awards. He also directed UNMIK Titanik (2004), a documentary about 100 people who couldn't leave their UN-protected building for over four years. His third film, Goodbye, how are you? (2009), is a collage Serbian sights and satirical aphorisms.
Mitić encourages copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
distribution of his films.
External links
- Dribbling Pictures
- http://eastsilver.net/serbia/80
- http://www.motovunfilmfestival.com/index.php?page=fpfull&nid=5735&sub=0&lang=en
- http://www.filmfestival-goeast.de/index.php?article_id=379&clang=1
- http://www.vivisectfest.org/engleski/vivisectfest/1/filmovi/umnik_titanik.html
- http://www.ex-yupress.com/nin/nin141.html
- http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/whats-on/2009/goodbye-how-are-you
- http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/festivals/edinburgh/2009/document/
- http://www.vimooz.com/festivalticker/category/international-documentary-film-festival-of-madrid/
- http://www.unmikonline.org/radio/scripts/English/september04/210904.htm
- http://www.visant.etnos.ru/fest/mfiva_4/catalogue_e.php
- http://eastsilver.net/taxonomy/term/244
- Pretty Dyana @ Google Video
- UNMIK Titanic @ Google Video