Regional Competition

Yours Truly, Sexymaja

Ivan Mandić
Screening time  
27.02. / Monday, 18:00 - 20:00 Theatre 5  
28.02. / Tuesday, 15:00 - 17:00 Theatre 3  
02.03. / Thursday, 14:00 - 16:00 Theatre 5  
A prostitute from Belgrade writes a popular blog using a pseudonym Sexymaja.

In summer of 2005 a sensation struck Serbian social networks – a blog Maja in a brothel appeared and quickly became the most followed content on the web. The author of this online diary used pseudonym Sexymaja and presented herself as a young prostitute from Belgrade. She kept on amusing the readers with funny descriptions of her clients thus became one of the most popular online personalities. However, she mysteriously disappeared from the web, so the rumors went on to describe her as a fake character. The blog community puts the blame on an alleged ghost writer to be behind all of it. He does not deny it but he opens the door for the real character, who was the inspiration for him from the beginning.

Ivan Mandić

Ivan Mandić was born in 1976 in Belgrade. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and a postgraduate degree in Media and Advertising. He made his first short films through the student cinema club Akademski kino klub Beograd. His first feature-length film Disappearance of Heroes won national documentary film competition in 2009 and had an international premiere at Trieste Film Festival. He works as a lecturer in the area of Video and Multimedia and makes his films as an independent filmmaker.
 

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Voli vas vaša Sexymaja

Serbia
2016, 84' 36''

Directed by:
Ivan Mandić

Screenplay by:
Ivan Mandić

Cinematography:
Dalibor Tonković, Ivan Mandić

Edited by:
Vladimir Radovanović

Music:
Various

Producer:
Ivan Mandić

Produced by:
Akademski filmski centar Dom kulture "Studentski grad"

Festivals & Awards:

Beldocs 2016 – Nagrada FIPRESCI; Dokufest 2016; Sudionik pitching foruma ZagrebDoxa 2014. godine