My World is Upside Down

About film

Director and scriptwriter: Petra Seliškar
DOP: Brand Ferro
Editors: Dorijan Milovanović, Vladimir Gojun
Sound designer: Vladimir Rakić
Mixers: Chris Eckman, John Bonnar
Music: Kimmo Pohjonen, Tomaž Pengov, John Bonnar, Robert Fisher, Chris Eckman, Hugo Race, Bernays Propaganda, Toni Kitanovski, Jani Hace & Josipa Lisac, Cidadela des Artes, John Parish

Producers: Petra Seliškar, Brand Ferro (Petra Pan Film Production)
Co-producers: Petrula Veljanovska (PPFP), Oliver Sertić (Restart)
Music producer: Chris Eckman
Executive producers: Petra Trampuž Bočevska, Tibor Keser
Production: Petra Pan Film Production (SI)
Co-production: PPFP (MK), Restart (HR)

Languages: Slovenian, English, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Romani

Screenings
Awards
Financial support

MAKEDOX 2016, Skopje, MK – opening film / world premiere
FESTIVAL OF SLOVENIAN FILM 2016, Portorož, SI – competition / Slovenian premiere
LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – LIFFE 2016, Ljubljana, SI – program ‘Prepremiere’
SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 2017, Los Angeles, US – documentary competiton
CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL CULT FILM FESTIVAL 2017, Calcutta, IN – official selection (May edition)
MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVAL SPLIT 2017, Split, HR – competition / Croatian premiere
KRANJSKA GORA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017, Kranjska Gora, SI – competition
FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARY FILM ‘KON’C AVGUSTA’ 2017, Cerknica, SI – main programme
LIBURNIA FILM FESTIVAL 2017., Opatija, HR – program ‘Films produced by Restart’
DOKUDOC 2017, Maribor, SI- competition
CINEMA VERITE 2017, Tehran, IR – program ‘Portrait’
DOK’N’RITAM 2018, Belgrade, RS – international competition

SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 2017, Los Angeles, US – best cinematography in documentary film (Brand Ferro)
SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL LOS ANGELES 2017, Los Angeles, US – special mention in the documentary competition
DOK’N’RITAM 2018, Belgrade, RS – best international documentary

Petra Seliškar was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Her first childhood passion was the theater which brought her to join the puppet theater and school GILS KODUM. After finishing high school, she went to the Netherlands to study directing at the Academy of film and television (BA Hons. Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie). She later pursued undergraduate studies in directing and postgraduate studies of production at the the Northern media school in Sheffield in England. In 2003 she founded the Petra Pan Film Production, which primarily produces and distributes documentary films. She now lives and works in Ljubljana, Skopje and elsewhere around Europe. She is the proud mother of Terra and Nil.

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My World is Upside Down