In June 2011 we asked the workers of the ‘Mali Lošinj’ shipyard in Croatia to film their everyday life during two weeks. Regarding the debate about shipbuilding as a Croatian strategic national industry, we edited the workers’ footage in an eight minute participative film named Self-Governed Film.
Author of the concept and director: Igor Bezinović
Cinematographers: Mladen Mihailović, Igor Toić, Izidor Volpato (wokers of Škver)
Editor: Iva Mrkić
Painter:Anna Ehrlemark
Producers: Oliver Sertić, Vanja Jambrović
Executive producer: Dunja Janković
Thanks: Josip Bolonić, Jovica Lončar
Production: Restart Laboratorij
Language: Croatian
Film was produced in the framework of Restart Laboratory – mentorship program for new authors.
Special screenings:
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary… His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Viennale and the Guanajuato IFF. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a member of The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the judo club Black Belt.
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