(70% OF YOUR FILM)
Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Mini Art-kino
What is most important to make a good film? A hundred directors, a hundred different answers. However, it’s often said that 70 percent of the final result depends on everything you do before you even turn on the cameras – and a critical aspect of this is casting. How do you find the right person to bring your lines to life, transforming words on paper into vivid, believable characters? How do you decide which actor is the right one, navigate the traps and detours along the way, and solve that eternal puzzle – how to create a director-actor relationship so their characters come across as real and lifelike? There’s no reliable recipe for this, but director and screenwriter Igor Mirković will share his experiences in creating hundreds of characters for feature films, shorts, and TV series.
Igor Mirković is a film director, screenwriter, and television journalist. Since 1989, he has worked as a TV journalist, editor, and creator of numerous documentary programs and political magazines, earning multiple awards for his journalism. Since 1998, he has directed documentaries, and in 2002, he achieved the status of an independent artist, focusing primarily on film. He entered cinema with two feature-length documentaries that achieved significant success in regular theatrical distribution: Novo, novo vrijeme in 2001 (co-directed with Rajko Grlić) and Sretno dijete two years later, which was shown in cinemas and on television networks across several countries in the region. Since 1999, he has been part of the core creative team at the Motovun Film Festival and has served as its director since 2007. From 2010 to 2020, he was an adjunct lecturer in Journalism Studies at the Faculty of Political Science, where he taught television journalism.