Ivan Velisavljevic

Ivan Velisavljevic - Media Archive Curator
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BIOGRAPHY: Ivan Velisavljevic (äabac, 1982), graduated in general literature and theory of literature at the Faculty of Philology and dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Belgrade. He completed his master's degree in comparative literature with a degree in film studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb. He worked as a journalist, columnist, film and literary critic, and his filmological texts were published in leading professional journals in the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, USA ... For three years he taught creative writing at the Faculty of media and communication. As a playwright, he has collaborated on numerous radio dramas, television shows and theater plays. He is the author of the book A Critical Guide to Serbian Film 2000-2017 (with –. Bajic and Z. Jankovic, Film Center of Serbia, Belgrade, 2017). He edited the book New Frame: Utmost Values ??of Serbian Film (with D. Ognjanovic, Clio, Belgrade, 2008) and the topic of the magazine Gradac on Unusual Bodies / Disabilities in Culture and Society (2012). Books of Poetry Kan (2001) and Anthology: Poets Heteronyms (with Milan N. Lukic, 2011). He is the director and screenwriter of several films, three of which were co-produced by the Academic Film Center of the House of Culture "Student City". Four original radio dramas were broadcast on Radio Belgrade, as well as fifteen adaptations of prose works. He is the author of two performed plays, and as a playwright he has collaborated on several successful theater plays.
He won the "Ramon Keno" award for prose, "Josip Kulundzic" for the best published essay in the field of film, "Vitomir Bogic" for the best young radio creator and the Professional Book Festival award for a book that makes important scientific contributions.