Controversial Dox

Years Eaten by Lions

Boro Kontić
Screening time  
02.03. / Srijeda, 22:00 - 00:00 Dvorana 4  
For years now this filmmaker has been collecting examples of amateur wartime journalism in former Yugoslavia (1991-1995), mostly those addressing warmongering, propaganda and hate talk.

n July 2009 his camera began tracking the fate of the announced penal suit for Serbian war crimes placed by the Serbian Independent Journalist Association against John Does – journalists responsible for warmongering propaganda. This is the first time that the issue of warmongering journalists’ responsibility was publicly raised. Meanwhile, from July 2009 to May 2010, the filmmaker paid a visit to people throughout the region who were invloved in war propaganda, seeking an answer to the questions ‘Where are the wartime propaganda journalists today and what are they doing’, or more precisely, ‘Does this issue have any meaning in our environment today’.

Boro Kontić

Boro Kontić is a director and journalist. He acted as the editor-in-chief of Radio Sarajevo’s Youth Channel, and later as the editor-in-chief of Radio Sarajevo’s Channel Two. In 1992-93 he was a board member of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Radio and Television (RTV BiH) and is the author of the TV series ‘Bez anestezije’. In 1991, at festivals Prix Futura Berlin and Prix Italia he won the Grand Prix for his documentary film ‘Jazztime’. From 1994 to 2003 he worked for the Voice of America as a reporter, and he was also an active president of the Independent Association of Professional Journalists.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina
2010, 60', color, video

Directed by:
Boro Kontić

Screenplay by:
Boro Kontić

Cinematography:
Edin Busuladžić, Samir Šarenkapa, Faris Dobrača

Edited by:
Ensar Džubur

Music:
Vladimir Podany

Producer:
Aldin Arnautović

Produced by:
produkcija.ba