By LISA What attracted Bill Carter, a guy from Chico, California to Bosnia during the 1992-1996 Siege of Sarajevo? Bill wrote Fools Rush In in 2005. It’s an intense memoir of the sequence of events that led him to board an aid bus to Sarajevo, evade sniper’s bullets, and as fate would have it, help U2 broadcast Sarajevo’s [...]
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Yugoslavia Documentary Compilation Available From A Million Movies a Minute
PORTLAND, Oregon: A Million Movies a Minute, an independent distributor specializing in short documentaries, has announced the release of AFTER THE WAR: LIFE POST-YUGOSLAVIA. This 150-minute compilation includes films by 5 film-makers from the former Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Peru and the United States. These 9 films represent a broad spectrum of contemporary documentary film-making.The recent [...]
Read the rest of this entry »One Day On Earth Media Project Wants Bosnian Citizens (10/10/2010)
From my mailbox—- I am contacting Beyond Sarajevo on behalf of a global media event that I am helping to produce. One Day On Earth is an online community of filmmakers, students, and inspired individuals all teaming up to film in every country in the world during the 24-hour period on 10/10/2010, to create a [...]
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Bosnia-Herzegovina – Regina – Bistra Voda Croatia – Igor Cukrov ft. Andrea – Lijepa ten Eurovision 2009 Final – Croatia – Igor Cukrov ft. Andrea – Lijepa tena Serbia – Marko Kon & Milaan
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Thanks to Orkan who emailed me the list of all the songs from the movie Grbavia I hope that you will ad this to you homepage,because it is a great help for people who are looking for the titles from the music of GRBAVICA…. I LOVE BOSNIA I HERZOGOWINA 1.Mevlud-Hasiba Agic2.Nije ovo moja noc-Marina Tucakovic3.Splavovi4.Takvi [...]
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Bosnia - Laka – Pokusaj Croatia – Kraljevi Ulice & 75 Cents Serbia – Jelena Tomasevic – Oro
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Update: Some facts are corrected. Thx to La Banda’s pianist Misko! At the end of the 1980s La Banda were one of the best known bands on Sarajevo’s alternative rock scene. The musicians were just about to complete their debut album when their plans were dramatically changed by war. This personal documentary by the journalist [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Where to buy Grbavica movie soundtrack?
I’ve searched the net and checked out Amazon, but I haven’t seen any sign that such CD existed. A friend from Sarajevo promised to look around, but I doubt there was a soundtrack CD made for this movie. Do you have any ideas? Thanks.
Read the rest of this entry »Balkan Pop Star Tose Proesky Died
At my colleague’s farewell party last night, I met a friend of her who was Macedonian. With little knowledge about Macedonia, I asked her if they spoke the same language as Serbia, then I said “Kako si!” That was it for our initial conversation. While fiddling with my cell pone and thinking about possible topics [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Richard Gere on David Letterman Promoting Newest Film about Bosnia
In this short clip, Richard Gere promotes his newest movie “The Hunting Party” in which he plays a journalist returning to Bosnia after the war to search for one of the two most wanted war criminal. This movie is released in September 2007. Richard also mentions Radovan Karadzic’s poems being published and distributed in Serbia [...]
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