About Filmkultura
WHO AND WHAT
Established in 2013, Filmkultura is an association dedicated to education in the field of audiovisual culture and art. The projects and events of the association are aimed, in a broader sense, at audience development and non-formal education of children and youth. Apart from that, carefully designed programs seek to improve knowledge of students, critics, authors and other film professionals who actively consider contemporary cinematographic, poetic and social issues, as well as film culture, heritage and theory. Creative content dedicated to the widest audience, organized by Filmkultura over the years, include festivals
The Shortest Day and The Day of Domestic Film, while educational workshops such as My First Shot and How to Make a Film are intended for the youngest generation of motion picture art devotees; among them, a special place is occupied by Mini Film, a workshop for lower and higher primary school students, held in more than twenty cities throughout Serbia. Workshops such as The Short School of Short Film, How to Write a Screenplay and the two most recent ones - Critical Camp and After-School Film Club - were established as a training ground for high school students and as a place for critical dialogue and knowledge exchange in Serbia, as well as the countries of former Yugoslavia.
WHERE TO
Filmkultura relies on the rich tradition of film clubs, some of which still successfully exist as refuges for filmophiles. Unlike the time when shooting equipment was not easily obtainable, today we are facing structurally different problems that need to be solved gradually, strategically and organically. These are, first of all, lack of critical analysis in the field of audiovisual media, primarily regarding film and television but also the increasingly present online media; an important issue is the shortfall in cinema culture, such as attending curated film programs and doing film research, but also the deficiency of training and creative collaboration workshops that accurately respond to the tangible challenges of young filmmakers. Filmkultura finds its place and purpose exactly there, mediating between ambitious creators and demanding audiences
to help shape this part of the cultural space. The goal of the association is therefore to educate the audiences and stimulate critical thinking towards the audiovisual contents, through the programs aimed at members of different age, ethnic, social and gender groups. Filmkultura achieves its intentions by implementing projects for training students, young authors and professionals in the field of audiovisual art, and providing incentives for cooperation among them. Its long-term goal Filmkultura sees in the introduction of film and media curriculum as an elective course in secondary education in Serbia; this can be done through connecting and cooperating with similar associations in the country and abroad, with the idea of exchanging experiences and methods regarding educational schemes and programs
WHO WITH
During the past years, Filmkultura has collaborated with leading names in the filmmaking industry, with colleagues, initiatives and institutions from the country and from the region. Some of our partners are the Yugoslav Cinematheque (National Film Archive of Serbia), Film Center Serbia, The Academic Film Center, Belgrade Cultural Center, Cultural Center of Novi Sad, Center E8, The Seanema Festival in Ulcinj, The Valjevo Cultural Network (VAKUM), Bašta Fest, European Film Festival Palić,
Cinedays Skopje, SOS Children's Village Kraljevo, House of Culture Čačak, Pančevo Film Festival, Open University Subotica, Cinema City and many more.Filmkultura consists of numerous members-friends, among whom there are more than a hundred film professionals coming from various spheres of activities and interests. The founders of the association are Andrijana Stojković, Jelena Stanković, Vanja Kovačević, Milan Stojanović, Marija Stojanović, Maša Seničić.
Projects
A workshop for high school students from Belgrade held in Тhe Yugoslav Cinematheque, in cooperation with this important institution and also in collaboration with Auteur Film Festival Belgrade. Fifteen participants had a chance to talk about the foundations of film history, theory and film criticism, with mentors (Jovan Marković, Radiša Cvetković, Maša Seničić) and film professionals (Staša Bajac, Ivan Ikić, Ivana Vuković, Stefan Đorđević, Jelena Maksimović), In addition, the participants were dedicated to working on poetic, documentary and narrative films, in groups or individually. From written analytical texts to shooting classical or hybrid forms, the workshop space has become a place of trust and gathering, knowledge and support for young curious cinephiles.
Belgrade / 2021.
Filmkultura joined the worldwide celebration of the International Short Film Day (December 21st), which serves to promote and support the short film creative process and the short film industry. The event, in 2021 held during three consecutive days, consists of a few blocks of short film screenings (both competition and non-competition: amateur, student and EFA films), as well as short film workshops, mentoring programs and master classes. The Shortest Day has been supported for years by the Cultural Center Belgrade, Fontana Cinema, Youth Center Belgrade and Yugoslav Cinematheque, and it has been held in cooperation with SVOD platform Cinesseum (for online screenings, 2020) while the partners in the educational program were also More Magnets Production (in 2019). The Shortest Day is an event that continually grows, backed up by numerous extremely young professionals and students of art faculties; in the organization of The Shortest Day, they also hold the positions of programmers, lecturers and producers.
Belgrade / 2013, 2014 (+10 cities across Serbia), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
This workshop is dedicated to developing and supporting critical thinking of young people, with a strong focus on high school students, who during this course attend numerous lectures, screenings and interactive dialogues, after which they write reviews of films with the mentors’ help. Three generations of “critical campers” from all over Serbia went through these workshops held in partnership with initiatives and institutions from the country (Academic Film Center, Students’ City Cultural Center, European Film Festival Palić, Auteur Film Festival Belgrade, Cultural Center Čačak, Bašta Fest) and from the region (Seanema Film Festival in Ulcinj – in cooperation with the Forum MNE association; Cinedays in Skopje – in cooperation with the Gledaj.mk association and the Skopje Youth Cultural Center).
Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia / 2017, 2018, 2019.
Intended for higher and lower elementary school students, this workshop consists of gameplay, talks and shootings whose results are optical toys, stories told in pictures and dozens of short feature films whose authors are young participants. This is surely the most decentralized project of Filmkulura and has been held continuously for years with the support of local authorities, schools and cultural centers (in Belgrade: Sopot, Grocka, Obrenovac; Novi Sad, Šabac, Arilje, Vrnjačka Banja, Leskovac, Smederevo, Negotin, Niš, Pančevo, Gornji Milanovac, Subotica, Zrenjanin, Pančevo, Kragujevac, Valjevo, Bajina Bašta…). The workshop was also held at various festivals and initiated in cooperation with different institutions – Belgrade Children’s Resort Center, Šumadija International Film Festival, Valjevo Film Meetings, European Film Festival Palić, Cinema City Festival, Pančevo Film Festival, Bašta Fest; the only international edition of Mini Film took place in collaboration with Seanema Film Festival (Ulcinj). The workshop was also attended by children and young people from vulnerable groups on two occasions, where the partners were SOS Children’s Village Kraljevo and Sremčica Children and Youth Foundation. Mini Film hosted over two hundred participants in the previous years.
Serbia / 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
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Our team
Maša Seničić
Program director and founder
Milena Šmigić
Director of the Association and director of The Shortest Day festival
Katarina Udovičić
Deputy director of the Association and director of The Shortest Day festival
Maša Seničić
Direktorka programa i osnivač
Milena Šmigić
Direktorka udruženja i direktorka festivala Najkraći dan
Katarina Udovičić
Zamenica direktora udruženja i direktorka festivala Najkraći dan
Milan Stojanović
Founder
Marija Stojanović
Founder
Andrijana Stojković
Founder
Vanja Kovačević
Founder
Jelena Stanković
Founder