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B92 (Serbian Cyrillic: Б92) is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Veran Matić is the CEO and one of the founders of B92. Dragan Đilas was also one of the founders of B92, he was a news editor at the station. In 19 March 2012,^{[clarification needed]} B92's logo was "The Cube in Surprised Girl", when the letter b is now lower-case.

The station was a rare outlet for independent news and information in Serbia under Slobodan Milošević, and was a force behind many demonstrations that took place in Belgrade during the turbulent 1990s. Due to this, B92 won the MTV Free Your Mind award in 1998, and many other awards for journalism and fighting for human rights. B92 is the subject of the best-selling book This is Serbia Calling.

In April 2008, B92 launched their second TV channel with 24 hour news coverage named B92 Info. This channel is cable only.

History[link]

The radio station originally went on the air in 1989 with help from the Soros Foundation and USAID,^[1] though it was shut down by authorities a few times in its early years. It was forced off the air for a time in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia, and government agents cracked down on independent reporting. The government took over the station in 1999 but the team continued broadcasting in borrowed studios as B2-92. In a dawn raid in May 2000 government troops seized everything but Internet broadcasting from secret studios continued until after the ousting of Milošević in October 2000, when the two stations were unified. It has continued as a combined music and news radio station since.

In 1996 the Internationale Medienhilfe organization has awarded the title "Radiostation des Jahres" to Radio B92.^[2]

Later on, TV station, Internet portal and ISP were introduced, as well as CD and book labels.

Radio[link]

The B92 radio station was founded in May 1989 in Belgrade as a predominantly youth-oriented station on 92.5 MHz FM. Throughout the years it has become a national radio with wide audience. The radio station has about 400,000 daily listeners which makes up 35% of all radio listeners with almost 80 stations competing for airtime. As of recently, radio B92 covers the whole of the territory of Serbia.

The most notable radio shows are Kažiprst (index finger), featuring usually live or occasionally live-to-tape interviews with notable public figures, Peščanik (hourglass), liberal talk show, radio blog of a sort, and the morning program Dizanje (getting up).

Television[link]

B92 HQ in Novi Beograd

History[link]

In October 2000, B92-TV began broadcasting as a local TV station reaching Belgrade's greater municipal area and parts of Vojvodina. Over the next few years, the station expanded its network of repeaters and could be seen in most of Serbia.

In April 2006 B92 was officially given a national commercial broadcasting license along with TV Pink, Fox Televizija, TV Avala and TV Košava. The station's most notable regular TV programmes include Utisak nedelje (Impression of the week) by Olja Bećković, Poligraf (Polygraph) by Jugoslav Ćosić and Antonela Riha, and Timofejev by Aleksandar Timofejev. The Insajder (Insider) series by Brankica Stanković runs intermittently and is one of the rare cases of investigative journalism on Serbian television. In recent years, B92 has undertaken a noticeable shift towards commercialization. Since 2006, it broadcasts the Serbian version of Big Brother reality series (Veliki brat), for which it received both a huge boost of ratings, as well as much criticism from its traditional viewers. The trend has continued with shows like Uzmi ili ostavi and Želite li da postanete milioner? quizzes (local versions of Deal or No Deal and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, respectively).

B92 also currently holds the Serbian market TV rights for the UEFA Champions League (since September 2003) and UEFA European U-21 C'ship, live broadcasts.

2007-08 season[link]

In rating seasons starting September 2007 lasting until July 2008 B92 has introduced a much more commercialised line-up. It has heavily advertised its shows during the non-ratings season of summer 2007.

The network has bought out rights to broadcast a new local show called Naša mala klinika based around a small medicinal practice on the outskirts of town. The show features many famous Serbian actors and actresses. Another local show called Vratiće se rode will be shown on B92. The network has also filmed a new season of popular comedy show Mile vs. Tranzicija. All other popular political and quiz shows will return for the year.

2008-09 season[link]

The season started in October. The most important project this season for the station is Operacija Trijumf. Operacija Trijumf (Star Academy) is the biggest musical reality show in the Balkans and it will be shown on television in Montenegro (IN TV) Croatia (Nova TV) Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia. The station also bought TV rights for Wimbledon (for next 4 years). Champions league matches are also going to be transmitted by B92.

2011 season[link]

The season has started in April. In addition to news and series program in 2011. B92 has a strong sport program. B92 broadcast Wimbledon, ATP Masters 1000 series, ATP World Tour Finals, UEFA Europa League, La Liga, Liga ABA.

The station also underwent a visual makeover.

Entertainment[link]

Internationally created shows currently broadcast by B92 (correct as of April 2011)^[3]:

Original name	Local name	Origin
Friends	Пријатељи / Prijatelji
Two and a Half Men	Два и по мушкарца / Dva i po muškarca
Sex and the City	Секс и град / Seks i grad
Vratiće se rode	Вратиће се роде / Vratiće se rode
Kitchen Nightmares	Паклена кухиња / Paklena kuhinja
Mad Men	Људи са Менхетна / Ljudi sa Menhetna
The Kennedys	Кенедијеви / Kenediјеvi
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition	Доме слатки доме / Dome slatki dome
Dora the Explorer	Дора истражује / Dora istražuje
The Penguins of Madagascar	Пингвини са Мадагаскара / Pingvini sa Madagaskara
SpongeBob SquarePants	Сунђер Боб Коцкалоне / Sunđer Bob Kockalone
Najbolje godine	Најбоље године / Najbolje godine
The Pillars of the Earth	Стубови земље / Stubovi zemlje	/

Audience share[link]

In 2007, B92 has been 3rd most watched television in Serbia. 2007 audience share is 9.3%.

News[link]

In recent years the daily newscast on B92 has become popular with viewers. Its news service is now the second most watched in Serbia after the national broadcaster. The daily new cast at 11.p.m. is particularly popular and has had a large surge in the ratings. The news provided by B92 is very comprehensive and which has contributed to the ratings going up in recent years.

Music and book publishing[link]

B92 also runs a record label, although in recent years its releases are few and far between. Some of the notable Serbian acts B92 helped launch include: Eyesburn, Darkwood Dub, Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša, Intruder, Vrooom, Kal etc. The label also released albums by somewhat more established acts such as Boban Marković, Rambo Amadeus, Eva Braun, Jarboli.

B92's book publishing arm is Samizdat B92 featuring prominent young authors such as Marko Vidojković and Srđan Valjarević, as well as a number of foreign authors.

B92 also runs the Rex cultural centre in Jevrejska Street.

B92.net (ex OpenNet)[link]

B92.net was established as OpenNet in late 1995 as the Internet division of Radio B92. In its first few months of operation a dial-up connection with Amsterdam provider XS4ALL was used. At the beginning of 1996, OpenNet became Yugoslavia’s first Internet provider, using an analogue leased line from XS4ALL and six local dial-up lines.

OpenNet also supported the local network of Radio B92, ANEM Radio and ANEM Television by providing non-stop live Internet broadcast of Radio and TV B92 programs, together with the distribution of audio and video materials among the ANEM radio and television stations. In this way, everything produced by ANEM and Radio B92 was available on the Internet.

During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia,^{[citation needed]} when representatives of the Slobodan Milošević regime raided the Radio B2-92 premises and disabled its transmitter, OpenNet continued to broadcast the radio program over the Internet. The signal was rebroadcast via satellite and by several radio stations in neighbouring countries. All of this was done with support from RealNetworks.

B92 Net has been the leading Serbian Internet site since 1996. At present the average number of page views per day exceeds 1.000,000, while the daily average number of visitors peaks at 200,000. Alexa.com ranked B92 site at number 917 while Google Page Ranks puts it at 7, making it the best positioned southeast European website.

B92 information[link]

B92 Info is a news broadcasting channel launched by B92 on 7 April 2008. The channel is broadcast on all major cable systems in the country and over the Internet. All of B92’s most popular news-related shows, including Poligraf, B92 Investigates, Insajder, Kažiprst, Dizanje, and sports programs, will be broadcast on the channel. B92 has called Info channel launch the biggest project of the company's television segment.^[4] B92 Info is now also available in Austria. ^[5]

References[link]

• Collin, M.: This Is Serbia Calling: Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Belgrade's Underground Resistance, Serpent's Tail, April 2001, ISBN 978-1-85242-682-8 (U.S. edition: Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance, Nation Books, April 2002, ISBN 978-1-56025-404-1)

External links[link]

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• B92: About Us
• Rex Center
• B92 - A Content Production Revolution - Poynter Online

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Emir Nemanja Kusturica Емир Немања Кустурица
Kusturica at the Guadalajara Film Festival 2009.
Born	Emir Kusturica (1954-11-24) 24 November 1954 (age 57) Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Nationality	Serbian
Other names	Nemanja
Occupation	Film director and screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Religion	Serbian Orthodoxy
Spouse	Maja Kusturica
Children	Stribor Kusturica Dunja Kusturica
Website
www.kustu.com

Emir Nemanja Kusturica (Serbian: Емир Немања Кустурица, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: [ěmiːr nɛ̌maɲa kǔsturitsa]); born 24 November 1954 in Sarajevo) is a Serbian^[1] filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.^[2][3]

Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle.

Life and work[link]

Early life and works[link]

Born to Murat Kusturica, a journalist employed at the Sarajevo's Secretariate of Information, and Senka Numankadić, a court secretary,^[4] Emir grew up as the only child of a secular family in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, then a constituent republic within Yugoslavia.^[5]

Emir was something of a delinquent while growing up in Sarajevo, according to his own account.^[1] Through his father's friendship with the well-known director Hajrudin "Šiba" Krvavac, 17-year-old Emir got a small part in Krvavac's 1972 Walter Defends Sarajevo, a partisan film funded by the Yugoslav state.

After graduating from the Film Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1978, Kusturica began directing made-for-TV television shorts in Yugoslavia. He made his feature film debut in 1981 with Do You Remember Dolly Bell?, which won the prestigious Silver Lion for Best First Work at that year's Venice Film Festival. From 1981 to 1988, he was a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo (Akademija Scenskih Umjetnosti) and art director of Open Stage Obala (Otvorena scena Obala).

His second feature film, When Father Was Away on Business (1985), earned a Palme d'Or at Cannes and five Yugoslav movie awards, as well as a nomination for an American Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Kusturica wrote the screenplays for both Do You Remember Dolly Bell? and When Father Was Away on Business in collaboration with Abdulah Sidran. In 1989, Kusturica earned more accolades for Time of the Gypsies, a film about Romani culture and the exploitation of their youth.

1990s[link]

Kusturica continued to make highly regarded films into the next decade, including his American debut, the absurdist comedy Arizona Dream (1993). He won the Palme d'Or for his black comedy epic, Underground (1995), based upon a scenario of Dušan Kovačević, a noted Serbian playwright.^[6] He also taught Film Directing at Columbia University's Graduate Film Division.

In 1998, he won the Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion for Best Direction for Black Cat, White Cat, a farcical comedy set in a Gypsy (Romany) settlement on the banks of the Danube. The music for the film was composed by the Belgrade-based band No Smoking Orchestra.

Recent life and work[link]

In 2001, Kusturica directed Super 8 Stories, a documentary road and concert movie about The No Smoking Orchestra, of which he is a band member. He was appointed President of the Jury of the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

His film, Maradona, a documentary on Argentine soccer star Diego Maradona, was released in Italy in May 2007. It premiered in France during the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

His film Promise Me This premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.^[7] During 2007, Kusturica prepared a punk opera, Times of the Gypsies. The premiere took place in June 2007, at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. The next month, Kusturica directed the music video to Manu Chao's single "Rainin In Paradize", from the latter's forthcoming album.

On 8 September 2007, Kusturica was appointed a UNICEF National Ambassador for Serbia, alongside Ana Ivanović, Jelena Janković and Aleksandar Đorđević.

Since January 2008, Kusturica annually organizes a private Küstendorf Film Festival. Its first installment was held at Drvengrad, a village built for his film Life Is a Miracle, from 14 to 21 January 2008.^[8]

His next film, Cool Water, is a comedy set against the background of a Middle East conflict. Filming started in November 2010 in Germany. It is the first time Emir Kusturica directed a film which he did not write.

At the 64th Cannes Film Festival, held 11–22 May 2011, Kusturica presided over the jury of the Un Certain Regard section of the festival's official selection. On 14 May, in Cannes, he was invested with the insignia of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France.^[9]

Acting[link]

Kusturica first performed in The Widow of St. Pierre (2000), a movie by director Patrice Leconte. In 2002, Emir Kusturica appeared as an electric guitar player/security specialist in The Good Thief, directed by Neil Jordan.

In the French movie L'affaire Farewell (2009), he played the role of Russian KGB agent Colonel Sergei Gregoriev, the central focus of a web of intrigue between warring governments and rival spy agencies.

Music[link]

Performing with The No Smoking Orchestra in March 2009

From 1986 until 1988, Kusturica played bass guitar in Zabranjeno Pušenje, a rock band from Sarajevo (SR Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Although Kusturica played a minor musical role in the band, he returned to the group following the Black Cat, White Cat film and the band's name changed to Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra. In 1999, the No Smoking Orchestra recorded a new album, Unza Unza Time, produced by the Universal record company, as well as a music video, directed by Emir Kusturica. The band has been touring internationally since 1999.

The musician and composer Goran Bregović has created music for three of Kusturica's films: Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, which featured Iggy Pop; and Underground.

Writing[link]

Kusturica's autobiography, Smrt je neprovjerena glasina (Death is an Unverified Rumour), was published in October 2010 in Belgrade by Novosti AD. The launch took place on 26 October during Belgrade Book Fair and was attended by Nele Karajlić, Dušan Kovačević, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić, Vojislav Koštunica.^[10][11][12] Released only in Serbia, Montenegro, and Republika Srpska, the book was initially printed in 20,000 copies that were quickly sold. Second printing in 32,000 copies was out in November and it too sold within weeks. On 8 December, the third printing in 40,000 copies was out^[13] and promoted a day later at Belgrade's Dom Sindikata.^[14] In February 2011, fourth printing with further 10,000 copies was out and soon the sale of 100,000th copy was announced.^[15]

Translations were published in Italy on 30 March 2011 under the title Dove sono in questa storia ("Where am I in this Story"),^[16] in France on 6 April 2011 as Où suis-je dans cette histoire ?,^[17] and in Germany in September 2011 as Der Tod ist ein unbestätigtes Gerücht.^[18]

Drvengrad and Kamengrad projects[link]

Drvengrad (meaning Wooden Town) is a traditional village that Kusturica built for his film Life Is a Miracle. It is located in the Zlatibor District near the city of Užice, two hundred kilometers southwest of Serbia's capital, Belgrade. It is located near Mokra Gora and Višegrad, best known for Yugoslav Ivo Andrić's Nobel-winning novel, The Bridge on the Drina.^[19] Since 2008, the village hosts the annual Küstendorf Film and Music Festival,^[20] which showcases films and music from all around the world. The festival is known for not having a red carpet as well as none of the popular Hollywood festival artifacts.

Kusturica started the construction project of Kamengrad (meaning Stone Town)also known as Andrićgrad), located in Višegrad, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 28 June 2011, which will be completed by 2014. ^[21] Kamengrad is located only several kilometers from Kusturica's first town Drvengrad, in Serbia. Kamengrad will be used as a filming location for the Emir's new film "Na Drini ćuprija", based on the book The Bridge on the Drina, by Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Ivo Andrić.

Controversy[link]

Work[link]

Kusturica and his work have provoked controversy at home and abroad.^[22] Underground, scripted by Dušan Kovačević, was partly financed by state-owned Yugoslav television. It recounted the history of Yugoslavia from World War II until the conflict in the 1990s. Some^[who?] Bosnian and French critics claimed the film contained pro-Serb propaganda.^[23][24]

French philosopher and writer Alain Finkielkraut, a supporter of the Croatian nationalist leader Franjo Tuđman,^[25] denounced the Cannes Film Festival's jury award, saying,

"In recognizing 'Underground', the Cannes jury thought it was honouring a creator with a thriving imagination. In fact, it has honoured a servile and flashy illustrator of criminal clichés. The Cannes jury highly praised a version of the most hackneyed and deceitful Serb propaganda. The devil himself could not have conceived so cruel an outrage against Bosnia, nor such a grotesque epilogue to Western incompetence and frivolity."^[24]

It was later revealed that Finkielkraut had not seen the film before writing his criticism.^{[26][27][28][29]} French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy made a film criticizing Underground.^[23]

In a discussion with Bernard-Henri Levy, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek said,

"I hope we share another point, which is – to be brutal – hatred of [director] Emir Kusturica. Underground is one of the most horrible films that I've seen. What kind of Yugoslav society do you see in Kusturica's Underground? A society where people fornicate, drink, fight – a kind of eternal orgy."^[30]

The Sarajevo-born novelist Aleksandar Hemon, who emigrated to the United States before the war, said Underground downplayed Serbian atrocities by presenting "the Balkan war as a product of collective, innate, savage madness."^[31]

Politics[link]

Kusturica has been criticised for appearing to agree with Slobodan Milošević’s propaganda during the Bosnian War. Andrej Nikolaidis, a Montenegrin writer and columnist, wrote in the weekly Monitor:

"Considering he proclaimed his dead father a Serb, and himself, Emir, an Orthodox Christian, he easily chose his own in the Bosnian War. He recognized them in Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić. He wasn't there to fire cannon barrages, but whenever he could, with his artistic and media get-up he provided them an alibi for every killed Muslim who didn't want to admit that he was originally an 'Orthodox Christian'."^{[cite this quote]}

Kusturica sued Nikolaidis and the Monitor newspaper for civil damages at the Supreme Court of Montenegro. In the end, Nikolaidis was ordered to pay $6,490 to Kusturica for calling the famed director a "media star of Milosevic's war machinery".^[32] The judge ruled that the evidence was not credible enough.^[33] In the end Nikolaidis and the paper were fined 12,000 euros for breaking the code of journalism by calling Kusturica "stupid, ugly and corrupt" in the article.^[34]

Kusturica is also known as a vocal supporter of Russian president Putin. In 2012, he said that as a Russian, he would vote for Putin, while as a British or American, he would fight Putin.^[35] Kusturica also appeared at Putin's 3rd inauguration in May 2012.^[36]

2010 Antalya festival[link]

In October 2010 Kusturica withdrew from the jury of Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival after being publicly criticized and accused by Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu and Turkish minister of culture Ertuğrul Günay over his alleged remarks and opinions about the Bosnian War.^[37]

The criticism of Kusturica was started by an organization called the Turkish-Bosnian Cultural Federation as soon as Kusturica was announced as a jury member.^[38] Turkish media reported that Kusturica repeatedly downplayed the number of killed people and the rape of Muslim women during the war.^[37] It was not clear when Kusturica was supposed to have made those comments, but the daily Milliyet said Kusturica denied the allegations.^[37]

Public sentiment in Turkey was whipped up against Kusturica to the point that a couple of days after Kusturica left Turkey, there were news reports about a mob of Turkish youths in Antalya physically assaulting Swiss actor Michael Neuenschwander (in town to promote his movie 180° – Wenn deine Welt plötzlich Kopf steht) because they mistook him for Kusturica due to apparent physical resemblance between the two.^[39] Later, Neuenschwander's press agent said there was no physical assault and that Neuenschwander was verbally abused by a small group.^[40]

Kusturica later commented on the incident:

Personal[link]

Mayor of Guadalajara Alfonso Petersen presents Kusturica with the keys to the city at Telmex Auditorium in March 2009

On Đurđevdan (St. George's Day) in 2005, he was baptised into the Serbian Orthodox Church as Nemanja Kusturica (Немања Кустурица) in Savina monastery near Herceg Novi, Montenegro.^[42][43] To his critics who considered this the final betrayal of his Bosnian Muslim roots, he replied that:

Kusturica traces his family origin before the conversion to Islam, to the Babić family, precisely to a Kusturica that helped build the Arslanagić bridge in the 18th century, that hailed from Bileća (He took the surname Kusturica when Islamized).^[45]

At the 2007 parliamentary elections, he gave indirect support to Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica and his center-right Democratic Party of Serbia.^[46] In 2007, he also supported the Serbian campaign Solidarity - Kosovo is Serbia, a campaign against the unilateral separation of the Serbian province of Kosovo.^[47]

He is currently living in Drvengrad, Serbia, the village which he had built for his film Life Is a Miracle. Kusturica holds Serbian and French citizenships.^{[citation needed]}

Kusturica received the Order of St. Sava, First Class, for his selfless care and presentation of the Serbian nation in the world, on May 12, 2012.^[48]

Marriage and family[link]

Emir Kusturica is married to Maja Mandić, daughter of a "Bosnian Serb (Miloš Mandić) and a Slovene-Croat (Ljerka Kušec). His children are Stribor, 30, and Dunja, 24."^[5]

Filmography[link]

As director

• Guernica, 1978, short
• The Brides Are Coming (Nevjeste dolaze), 1978, TV film
• Buffet Titanic (Bife Titanik), 1979, TV film
• Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (Sjećaš li se Dolly Bell), 1981
• Nije čovjek ko ne umre, 1984, TV film
• When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu), 1985
• Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje), 1988
• Arizona Dream, 1993
• Underground (Podzemlje), 1995
• Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, beli mačor), 1998
• Super 8 Stories, 2001, documentary
• Life Is a Miracle (Život je čudo), 2004
• Promise Me This (Zavet), 2007
• Maradona, 2008, documentary
• Tweaker's Delight, 2011 (pre-production)
• Cool Water, 2012 (pre-production)
• Wild Roses, Tender Roses, 2012 (pre-production)

As actor

• Walter Defends Sarajevo, 1972
• Underground (Podzemlje), 1995
• The Widow of Saint-Pierre, 2000
• The Good Thief, 2002
• Strawberries in the Supermarket, 2004
• L'affaire Farewell (Farewell), 2009
• Hermano (film), 2010
• Nicostratos le pélican (film), 2011
• Au bonheur des ogres (The Scapegoat), based on Daniel Pennac's 1985 novel, 2012
• 7 Days in Havana

Awards[link]

• 1st prize on Student's Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, (1978) for Guernica
• Golden Lion for "Best First Work" in Venice Film Festival, (1981) for Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
• Golden palm Cannes Film Festival, (1985) for When Father Was Away on Business
• FIPRESCI prize Cannes Film Festival, (1985) for When Father Was Away on Business
• Best Foreign Language Academy Award Nomination, (1985) for When Father Was Away on Business
• Best Director award at Cannes Film Festival, (1989) for Time of Gypsies^[49]
• Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, (1993) for Arizona Dream^[50]
• Golden Palm at Cannes Film Festival, (1995) for Underground^[51]
• Silver Plate of best documentary at Chicago International Film Festival, (2001) for Super 8 Stories
• Cinema Prize of the French Education System at Cannes Festival (2004) for Life is a Miracle
• Best European Union Film at César Awards, (2005) for Life is a Miracle
• Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award, (2005) for Küstendorf village in Serbia
• On 10 February 2007, Kusturica received Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest order in recognition of significant contribution to the arts.
• Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Award for his ethnic village project Küstendorf (also called Drvengrad – “wooden town”) on Mt. Zlatibor, Serbia, in 2005. The prize is awarded every three years by the Brussels Foundation for Architecture.
• In 2004, The Prix de l'Education nationale (National Education Prize) honored Emir Kusturica and his film Život je čudo (Life is a Miracle).
• On 8 April 2011, Kusturica was the first person ever to receive "Momo Kapor award", for his book Death is an Unverified Rumour
• In 2011, Kusturica won "Tipar award" for satire, awarded in the city of Pljevlja
• Order of St. Sava, Serbian Orthodox Church's highest decoration, on 12 May 2012.

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Emir Kusturica

• Emir Kusturica at the Internet Movie Database
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• Komuna Belgrade
• Indie Wire, Interview with Kusturica on Black Cat, White Cat
• RTS interview, 26 April 2006 (Serbian)
• Etno selo Nemanje Kusturice na Mećavniku, May, 2007 – www.ciode.ca (Serbian)

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Jasmina Tesanović

Jasmina Tešanović (Serbian: Јасмина Тешановић) (born March 7, 1954) is an author, feminist, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.

Born in Beograd (Belgrade), SFRJ Jugoslavija. Her mother, Vera Stefanovic Tesanovic was a pediatrician, and her father Gojko Tesanovic was an engineer and an economist. Both were active members of the Tito's Yugoslav Communist party.

As a child she went to Cairo, Egypt with her parents where she attended the primary Port Said School in English. In Cairo she took piano lessons with Croatian pianist Melita Lorkovic. In 1966 her parents transferred to Milan, Italy where she attended the international School of Milan ( British School). In 1971 she enrolled at Universita' Statale di Milano and studied Law School for two years which she abandoned to study Art and Cinema.

In 1975 she went to live in Rome after assisting Miclos Jancso's movie "Private Vices Public Virtues," shot in Ormos, former Yugoslavia. She lived with actress Laura Betti where she met and befriended director Pier Paolo Pasolini.

In 1976 she graduated Lettere Moderne at the Universita' Statale di Milano with a thesis on Andrej Tarkovski with professor Adelio Ferrero.

In 1977, she collaborated with Umberto Silva on the movie "Difficile morire."

In 1978, together with Zarana Papic and Dunja Blazevic, she organized the first Feminist Conference in Eastern Europe bringing Italian feminists (Dacia Maraini, Anne Marie Boetti, Letizia Paolozzi, etc.) into Yugoslavia. The international conference was condemned by the ruling Communist party as attempt to import western ideology into the country.

She did conceptual video performances at the student cultural center of Belgrade SKC ("Love is only a Matter of Words," "An Unedited Being," etc.) and shot short films together with Radoslav Vladic.

She translated Italian authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Sandro Veronesi, Andrea de Carlo, and Aldo Busi, and published an anthology of contemporary Italian literature within Yugoslavia.

She worked as the assistant director and writer with Zivojin Pavlovic in the movie "Zadah Tela" which won major prizes at the Pula film festival (Croatia) in 1983.

At the beginning of the Balkan wars in 1990 she became a pacifist and an active opponent of the Milosevic' s regime: Women in Black, Women Studies, etc. In 1994, together with Slavica Stojanovic, she founded the feminist publishing house "Feminist 94."

Her first book of essays "The Invisible Book" became a manifesto for alternative Serbian feminist/pacifist culture. Since then she published several other fiction and essays books translated in several languages.

She is the author of Diary of a Political Idiot, a war diary written during the 1999 Kosovo War and widely distributed on the Internet. She has distributed essays, diaries, stories and films on blogs and other Internet media.

In 2004 the Hiroshima Prize for Peace and Culture was awarded to Borka Pavicevic, founder of the Centre for Cultural Decontamination in Belgrade, with additional prizes to Biljana Srbljanovic and Jasmina Tesanovic, Serbian authors and peace activists.

She is the member of the Norwegian PEN center. She writes in three languages; English, Italian and Serbian.

Personal[link]

Tešanović was married to Serbian poet Raša Livada with whom she has a daughter. She was in a relationship with Serbian writer David Albahari.^{[citation needed]} During the nineties, she was married to journalist and writer Dušan Veličković

In 2005, she married American science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.

Bibliography[link]

Non-fiction[link]

• Dizajn Zlocina, Sudjenje skorpionima (VBZ Sarajevo, Zagreb, Beograd 2009)
• Processo agli Scorpioni (Edizioni XII, 2008, Stampa Alternativa, 2009, Italy)
• Matrimony (Planeta Publisher, Barcelona, Spain, 2003, Feminist Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia, 2004)
• Me and My Multicultural Street (Feminist Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia, 2001)
• Diary of a Political Idiot (Cleis Press, San Francisco, California, 2000) — published in 12 languages
• The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia (University of California Press, Berkley, San Francisco, California, 1997)

Fiction[link]

• Nefertiti (Stampa Alternativa, Italy 2009)
• The Necromancers/Nekromanti (play, 2007)
• Nefertiti Was Here/Nefertiti je bila ovde (Belgrade Women's Studies, Centar za Zenske Studije, Beograd 2007)
• They just do it (play, Feminist Notebooks, Belgrade, Serbia 1998)
• The Mermaids (Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1997) — Borislav Pekić Award recipient
• A Women’s Book (Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1996)
• In Exile (Publisher 94, Belgrade, Serbia 1994)
• The Invisible Book (KOV, Vrsac, Yugoslavia 1992)

Essays and short stories[link]

This list is not exhaustive.

• "All Patients are Refugees" (Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write their Bodies, edited by Sayantani Das Gupta and Marsha Hurst, The Kent State University Press, 2007)
• "Baghdad/Belgrade Correspondence" (Writing the World: On Globalization, editors Wandee Pryor and Rothenberg, MIT Press, Boston Massachusetts 2005)
• "Letter to My Imaginary American Friend" (Stop the Next War, editors Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, Inner Ocean, San Francisco, California 2005)
• "We Are All Women In Black" (Women on War, edited by Daniela Gioseffi, Feminist Press, New York, New York, 2003)
• "Mermaids, Ljubica" (short stories) (Casablanca Serbia, editor Nicole Janigro, Feltrinelli, Milan, Italy 2003)
• The Diary of a Political Idiot (Granta 67, Autumn, London, UK 1999)
• "Lies and Secrets" (Index on Censorship, London, UK 1999)
• Many short essays published on the blog Boing Boing, including "The Long Goodbye", concerning the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic
• "Ja i moja multikulturalna ulica" (Feminist 94, Belgrade, 2001; translated into English as "Me and my multicultural street" in Bojana Kovačević’s Master's thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2008)
• Other writings for newspapers and TV including Serbian weekly NIN; Serbian daily Nasa Borba; The Washington Post; Philadelphia Inquirer; L'Espresso; Panorama; ABC TV; El Pais; Al Jazeera; Flair; Grazia. She has a column in La Stampa, Italy, "I Globalisti" (together with her husband Bruce Sterling) and Yellow Cab, Belgrade, Boing Boing.

Films[link]

• Difficile Morire, artistic collaboration on Umberto Silva's film, (Rome 1977)
• Mother and Sinner, with Rade Vladic (Belgrade 1978)
• Morning Midday Evening, with Rade Vladic, film based on a short story by David Albahari (Belgrade 1978)
• Nefertiti Was Here (Belgrade 1978)
• Nefertiti Was Here in Belgrade (Belgrade 2003)
• Jasmina's Diary, with Dinko Tucakovic (Belgrade 1999)
• Stencil Art in Serbia (Belgrade 2007)
• A Minute to Twelve (Belgrade 2007)
• Invisible Cities (Belgrade 2008)
• Rafts (Belgrade 2008)
• Participation (Belgrade 2008)
• Blogs (Belgrade 2008)
• Recycling Romany (Belgrade 2008)

External links[link]

• Jasmina Tesanovic weblog on b92
• Source for this article
• Women in Black (international) website
• Code Pink
• Nefertiti Was Here
• Interview w. Jasmina Tesanovic
• Serbian elections according to Jasmina Tešanovic (interview)
• Jasmina Tesanovic's speech at LIFT Conference 2008 (English)
• Jasmina Tesanovic personal weblog.

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