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Writers in cinema: Literary history of our film experiences Grand Terrace Palić, Tuesday 20th July, 12PM (during the Press Conference)

An anthology "Writers in Cinema: Literary History of Our Film Experiences", published by the Film Center Serbia and the Official Gazette, is a new book by our prominent filmmaker Slobodan Šijan. The book brings a selection of texts in which our and regional writers, often from a very personal perspective, write about the phenomenon of film. The book contains texts by Ivo Andrić, Branislav Nušić, Stanislav Vinaver, Rastko Petrović, Boško Tokin, Miloš Crnjanski, Bogdan Tirnanić, Aleksandar Petrović, Danilo Kiš, Dubravka Ugrešić and others. At almost 500 pages, the anthology "Writers in Cinema" contains short stories, excerpts from novels, diaries or memoirs, newspaper articles and other texts in which writers, journalists and filmmakers, from different angles, give their views on the seventh art from its beginnings until today.

Slobodan Šijan (1946, Belgrade) is one of the most important filmmakers in the region. Šijan was active painter till 1980 and he entered the world of cinema at mid 70’s trough experimental film and television. He studied art at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts and film directing at Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade. He has published various texts about film in national and international magazines and he also edited several books and publications on regional and world’s filmmakers. His major book Film Leaflet was published in 2009. During 1990 and 1991 Slobodan Šijan was director of Yugoslav Film Archive. Now he works as a professor at Belgrade Faculty of Drama Arts.