About

The documentary follows Edo Maajka from his birthplace Brčko

Brcko (city)

Brčko is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative seat of the Brčko District. It lies on the country's border along the Sava river across from Gunja, Croatia...

 to Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar

Novi Pazar is a city and municipality located in southwest Serbia, in the Raška District. According to the official census in 2011, number of inhabitants of municipality is 92,776, while the city itself has a population of 60,638...

, where he is having the first hip hop concert ever held there in that region of Sandžak

Sandžak

Sandžak also known as Raška is a historical region lying along the border between Serbia and Montenegro...

. Along the way Edo talks about his childhood, the war, and how he got involved in hip hop. When and how he met his best friends Frenkie

Frenkie

Adnan Hamidović , better known by his stage name Frenkie, is a Bosnian rapper from Bijeljina, Bosnia. The themes present in his music are often concerned with the political situation in Bosnia, as well as traditional hip-hop subject matter such as battle rapping and pop culture...

 and the other Fmjam

Fmjam

FMJAM is the first hip hop station in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- History and More :FMJAM was created in 1999 by Erol Tahirović and Emir Alagić. It is the first hip hop radio show in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was created to expand hip hop in Bosnia and the rest of the Balkan nations. FMJAM is the...

 crew. Edo talks about being part of Defence and later the hip hop crew Disciplinska Komisija

Disciplinska komisija

Disciplinska Komisija is a Bosnian rap group and its most prominent member is Edo Maajka; The other members are Frenkie, HZA and Moonja and their DJ/producer DJ Soul. The group has been called the Bosnian and Herzegovina hip hop supercrew or Tuzla hip hop crew.- Formation :Disciplinska Komisija...

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This was the first Croatian and Bosnian documentary about the hip hop genre.
The documentary won DORF

Dorf

Dorf may refer to:People:* Erling Dorf , American geologist and paleobotanist* Michael Dorf * Richard C. Dorf , Professor Emeritus of Management and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis* Shel Dorf , American comic-book lettererOther uses:* Dorf, fictional...

 by beating 17 other docuemntaries from: Britain, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.

Premier and showings

The documentary premiered in the "Motovun Film Festival

Motovun Film Festival

Motovun Film Festival is an annual film festival established in 1999 and held in Motovun, Croatia. It usually takes place over 5–6 days in late July or early August...

" in 2007. It was shown in "ZagrebDoxu" in 2008 and also in the cinema SC in the yearly "Days of Croatian Movies". It was also shown in the Skoplje Film Festival.It was shown 25.4 to 28.4 2008 in the Chicago Festival of Bosnian Films, which was organized by Edgewater Film Society with the help of International Film and Media Studies Program at Loyola Univerzitetu Chicago. On 22 February 2008 and 23 February 2008 it was shown at the KIC cinema in Zagreb.

It premiered on television, on HTR 1, on October 28, 2007.

Awards

• 2007 - People's choice - 5th Liburnija Film Festival
• 2008 - Documentary Festival (DORF) - Best documentary

External links

• List of Showings http://www.film-mag.net/content.php?review.3533