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Born to Prof. Dr. Sc. Branislav Malagurski and Slavica Malagurski, Boris grew up in the Northern [[Serbia]]n town of [[Subotica]]. In |
Born to Prof. Dr. Sc. Branislav Malagurski and Slavica Malagurski, Boris grew up in the Northern [[Serbia]]n town of [[Subotica]]. In an interview for ''Literární noviny'', [[Prague]]'s cultural and political journal, Malagurski said that his last name originates from the [[Poland|Polish]] town of [[Mała Góra]], noting that in the 17th century, a soldier from that town fought under the command of [[John III Sobieski]] against the Turks in the [[Battle of Zenta|Battle of Senta]] and afterwards decided to stay in Subotica, which is now in the Serbian province of [[Vojvodina]].<ref>[http://www.literarky.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=860:vitejte-v-kosovu-vae-auto-je-u-tady&catid=58:evropa&Itemid=182 „Vítejte v Kosovu, vaše auto je už tady!“] Literární noviny</ref> |
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Since Malagurski emigrated to Canada in 2005, he identifies himself as [[Serbian Canadians|Serbian Canadian]].<ref>[http://www.alo.rs/stari-alo/Istina_o_smrti_Brisa_Tatona/48100 Srpsko-kanadski režiser Boris Malagurski] Alo novine</ref> Malagurski made a documentary film about his move from Serbia called ''The Canada Project''. The film was shown on [[Radio Television of Serbia|Serbian National Television]], as a part of [[Mira Adanja-Polak]]'s TV show.<ref>[http://www.adanja-polak.com/l/emisije/mira-adanja-polak-i-vi/mira-adanja-polak-i-vi-5-jun-2005/ Mira Adanja-Polak and You] June 5, 2005</ref> |
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Boris Malagurski | |
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Occupation(s) | Film director and screenwriter |
Years active | 2005-present |
Website | http://www.malagurski.com |
Boris Malagurski (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Малагурски) (born August 11, 1988 in Subotica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter and activist.[1][2] He is the owner of the Malagurski Cinema production company, based in Vancouver, Canada.
Life and work
Born to Prof. Dr. Sc. Branislav Malagurski and Slavica Malagurski, Boris grew up in the Northern Serbian town of Subotica. In an interview for Literární noviny, Prague's cultural and political journal, Malagurski said that his last name originates from the Polish town of Mała Góra, noting that in the 17th century, a soldier from that town fought under the command of John III Sobieski against the Turks in the Battle of Senta and afterwards decided to stay in Subotica, which is now in the Serbian province of Vojvodina.[3]
Since Malagurski emigrated to Canada in 2005, he identifies himself as Serbian Canadian.[4] Malagurski made a documentary film about his move from Serbia called The Canada Project. The film was shown on Serbian National Television, as a part of Mira Adanja-Polak's TV show.[5]
Kosovo: Can You Imagine?
Malagurski's documentary film Kosovo: Can You Imagine? (2009) dealt with the topic of human rights of Serbs in the disputed province of Kosovo.[6][7] The Pečat Magazine described the film as "An objective, authentic journalistic approach to the issue, as well as brave work on the field, make this documentary an accomplishment envied by any author".[1] The film features several prominent experts regarding the subject of the Balkans, such as Ret. Maj. Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, Fmr. Amb. James Byron Bissett and Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, who help analyze the state in which the disputed province finds itself since declaring secession from Serbia. In realizing this film project, Malagurski received help from Canadian author and journalist Scott Taylor and Princess Linda, from the House of Karađorđević, as well as UNMIK official John Hawthorne and Irish diplomat Mary Walsh, to which the film is dedicated.[8] In December 2009, the documentary had its broadcast premiere on Russia Today, the first all-digital Russian TV network.[9][10]
The Weight of Chains
His film The Weight of Chains (2010)[11] deals with Western involvement in the breakup of Yugoslavia.[2] The film is supported by the Global Research Institute[12] and tackles the question of why Yugoslavia really fell apart,[13] the answer of which, according to the author, is far from how the media present it.[14] Malagurski also examines the current economic situation in the former Yugoslav republics and offers a different perspective on the major political and social issues facing the people living in that part of the world.
The Belgrade-based daily newspaper Blic noted that this film "exploded on the Internet" and became the topic of many blogs and discussions.[15] The Politika newspaper wrote that over a million people saw The Weight of Chains over the Internet.[16] The film also found itself in the official selections of renowned film festivals in the world and was shown in cinemas in the United States, Australia and Canada.[15] In October 2011, the film was broadcasted on RTV BN,[17] and on RTRS in January 2012.[18] The Croatian media portal Javno.hr described "The Weight of Chains" as a "controversial film" and that it describes "the causes and circumstances that lead to the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars in that region". When the journalist Miroslav Filipović asked Malagurski whether he'd agree that his film is "one-sided" and "too Serbian", Malagurski answered that it can only be both "too Serbian" and "too Croatian" as it's "in the interest of the people of that part of the world".[19] As of 2012, the film is distributed worldwide by Journeyman Pictures.[20]
In April 2012, Malagurski announced the production of a sequel, The Weight of Chains 2, which will, according to the author, continue where the first part ended.[16] The film will include interviews with Noam Chomsky, Michael Ruppert, R. James Woolsey, Vuk Jeremić, Mlađan Dinkić, Michael Parenti, Miroslav Lazanski and many others.[16][21]
Belgrade
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As of 2011[update] Malagurski is working on a documentary film about Belgrade, in which he aims to capture the spirit of the Serbian capital. When completed, the film will be the first documentary about Belgrade since the 1980s, when the city was hoping to host the 1992 Summer Olympics. The author claims that Belgrade boasts a unique quality and energy, in spite of the fact that it was destroyed and rebuilt over 40 times in its history and that the greatest attraction of the city are the citizens themselves.[22][23]
The documentary will feature Boris Malagurski on-screen, including interviews with renowned Belgraders, such as tennis player Novak Djokovic, and will be in English. In an interview for Večernje novosti, the Belgrade-based daily newspaper, Malagurski said that he made a break from producing the film while working on a documentary called "The Presumption of Justice", but that he still aims to show the capital of Serbia in the best possible way, as well as to inspire foreigners to come and visit it.[24]
Media and lectures
The Serbian newspaper "Politika", the oldest daily in the Balkans, described Malagurski as the "Serbian Michael Moore",[2] followed by the same description by Press[25] and many other media outlets in the region.
Malagurski regularly gives keynote speeches about his film making tactics and current social, political and economic issues in the Balkans. Recently, he spoke several times at the Faculty of Law[26][27] and the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade,[28] at the Novi Sad Law School and the University of Novi Sad Medical School and Faculty of Philosophy,[29] as well as the Management Faculty in Sremski Karlovci[30] and the Faculty for Media and Communications at the Singidunum University in Belgrade.[31] He also gave a speech on "guerilla filmmaking" at the Megatrend University in Belgrade[32]
Malagurski took part in many conferences, including the "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" conference organized by the Belgrade Youth Office of the City Government of Belgrade[33] and the "Trustees of Kosovo Thought" conference at the 57th International Book Fair in Belgrade organized by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.[34] In April 2012, Malagurski delivered a presentation at Google in Silicon Valley that dealt with raising funds for film projects.[16]
Activism
When Kosovo declared independence in 2008, Malagurski spoke at a protest which drew a crowd of hundreds.[35] In 2009 he was named among the Top 30 Under 30 Serbian Young Entrepreneurs at the International Diaspora Youth Leadership Conference, chaired by Tijana Arnautović, while in 2011, Malagurski was a keynote speaker at the annual Conference.[36][37] Occasionally, Malagurski writes articles for the political magazine New Serbian political thought[38][39][40] and produces video reports for the Centre for Research on Globalization.[41]
In October 2011, Malagurski showed his film "The Weight of Chains" at the Jarinje barricades on the Kosovo-Central Serbia provincial boundary,[42] which the he claims was a show of support for the Serbs' cause in fighting for their rights in the disputed province.[43] In June 2012, Malagurski took part in a protest in front of the building of Radio Television Serbia that called for an end to "organized media darkness" in Serbia and requested the airing of Malagurski's film "The Weight of Chains" on Serbia's public broadcaster.[44] In front of hundreds of protesters, Malagurski stated that Aleksandar Tijanić, the director of RTS, told Malagurski that the film received a positive review, but couldn't be aired on RTS because it was allegedly already aired on Happy TV, which Malagurski claimed wasn't true. [45] Malagurski provided signed and stamped documentation from Happy TV in which it's written that Happy TV never aired "The Weight of Chains".[46] On October 24, 2012, exactly 100 years after the Battle of Kumanovo, Malagurski, together with other Serbian activists, organized a "Thanksgiving walk of rememberance" that started in front of the Government of Serbia building and continued to the Novo groblje cemetery complex where the organizers laid a wrath on the tomb of Radomir Putnik, the Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian army in the Balkan Wars.[47][48]
Filmography
- The Canada Project (2005) - Director, Editor
- Kosovo: Can You Imagine? (2009) - Director, Producer, Writer, Editor
- The Weight of Chains (2011) - Director, Writer
- The Presumption of Justice (2012) - Director, Producer
- Belgrade (2012, In production) - Director, Producer, Writer
- The Weight of Chains 2 (2013, Pre-production) - Director, Producer, Writer
Awards and screenings
- Young Authors of Europe, 2005 - for "The Canada Project" at the International Film Festival in Palić, Serbia[49]
- Young Authors of Europe, 2005 - for "Vreme Je" at the International Film Festival in Palić, Serbia[49]
- Best Film, 2009 - for "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" at the BC Days Serbian Documentary Film Festival in Burnaby, Canada[50]
- Winner, Silver Palm Award, 2009 - for "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" at the Mexico International Film Festival 2009, Rosarito, Mexico[51]
- Official Selection, 2009 - for "Kosovo: Can You Imagine?" at the BridgeFest International Film Festival, East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina[52]
- Official Selection, 2011 - for "The Weight of Chains" at the BELDOCS International Feature Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia[53]
- Official Selection, 2011 - for "The Weight of Chains" at the Raindance Film Festival, London, United Kingdom[54][55]
- Official Selection, 2011 - for "The Weight of Chains" at the Moving Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada[56]
- Official Selection, 2011 - for "The Weight of Chains" at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba[57]
- Official Selection, 2011 - for "The Weight of Chains" at the Ann Arbor Docu Fest, Ann Arbor, United States of America[58]
References
- ^ a b Kosovo: Možete li zamisliti? Pečat magazine, June 5, 2009
- ^ a b c Добри људи у злим временима | Good people in evil times Politika Newspaper, August 28, 2010
- ^ „Vítejte v Kosovu, vaše auto je už tady!“ Literární noviny
- ^ Srpsko-kanadski režiser Boris Malagurski Alo novine
- ^ Mira Adanja-Polak and You June 5, 2005
- ^ Kosovo: Can You Imagine on IMDb
- ^ Филм "Kosovo, Can You Imagine?" Српски Глас | The Serbian Voice Weekly Newspaper, Australia, November 27, 2009
- ^ Nepodnošljiva lakoća istine - Pečat Magazine May 26, 2011
- ^ Kosovo: Can you imagine? XL Reports | Russia Today, December 11, 2009
- ^ Kosovo | Can You Imagine? - Russia Today Preview
- ^ Kosovo Dominated The Evening The Serbian Voice Weekly Newspaper, Australia, December 11, 2009
- ^ New Documentary Film by Boris Malagurski | Global Research, January 7, 2010
- ^ Srbi se konačno probudili i udružili Novine Toronto, March 26, 2010
- ^ “Težina lanaca”: Šta se stvarno desilo? Global Research, October 26, 2009
- ^ a b Kapitalizam pljačka Srbiju Blic
- ^ a b c d Nema povlačenja, nema predaje Politika
- ^ BN - SREDA 19.10.2011 21:00 - Težina lanaca, dokumentarni film
- ^ TEŽINA LANACA - dokumentarni film, RTRS
- ^ Yugoslavia was the predecessor of the EU | Boris Malagurski Interview for Javno.hr
- ^ Journeyman Pictures : Documentaries Serbia - The Weight Of Chains - 124 min 30 sec
- ^ The Weight of Chains 2 About
- ^ Kultura : Zagolicajmo maštu turista Politika, 5 October 2011
- ^ Belgrade with Boris Malagurski Official Website
- ^ Boris Malagurski: Želim da radim u Srbiji Večernje novosti
- ^ New documentary by the Serbian Michael Moore Press newspaper
- ^ "Kosovo and Metohija in the light of international law" conference at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, featuring Boris Malagurski
- ^ Video of Boris Malagurski at the Faculty of Law at the University of Belgrade
- ^ "Kosovo - Where is the solution?" conference at the Faculty of Political Sciences, featuring Boris Malagurski
- ^ The Weight of Chains at the Faculty of Philosophy
- ^ "How to get over stereotypes of bad boys" at F@M Sremski Karlovci
- ^ The Weight of Chains at the Faculty of Media and Communications
- ^ Reditelj Boris Malagurski posetio Megatrend Megatrent
- ^ Tribina Should I Stay Or Should I Go Kancelarija za mlade
- ^ Kancelarija za Kosovo i Metohiju na 57. Međunarodnom sajmu knjiga u Beogradu od 21. do 28. oktobra 2012. Program
- ^ Protesters rally against Kosovo independence Global TV, February 24, 2008
- ^ 30 under 30
- ^ Top 30 Under 30 Serbian Young Entrepreneurs Tanjug
- ^ Битка је у нама Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 1 November 2010
- ^ Дневник 2010 Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 19 October 2010
- ^ Моја држава, моја револуција Борис Малагурски, НСПМ | 14 October 2010
- ^ Fracturing Serbia: Vojvodina The Next Powder Keg Boris Malagurski for GRTV
- ^ Using alternative paths to get to North Kosovo Politika, October 31, 2011
- ^ We're afraid of Belgrade, not KFOR Pravda newspaper, October 30, 2011
- ^ Protest ispred RTS-a RTS
- ^ RTS odbio da prikaže film Težina lanaca Kurir
- ^ Protest ispred zgrade RTS Pravda
- ^ Thanksgiving walk United Journalists of Serbia Press Centre
- ^ Šetnja zahvalnosti Dnevnik Radio-televizije Srbije
- ^ a b Young European Filmmakers Palić International Film Festival, 2005
- ^ New Serbian documentary festival: human rights, athletes, and more The Georgia Straight, Craig Takeuchi, March 11, 2009
- ^ RTV - Film Borisa Malagurskog nagrađen na festivalu u Meksiku, Radio Television Vojvodina, May 11, 2009
- ^ Film Borisa Malagurskog nagrađen na festivalu u Meksiku, Glas Srbije, May 11, 2009
- ^ Težina lanaca: Kritika uloge NATO, EU i SAD i raspadu SFRJ BELDOCS 2011
- ^ [1] Raindance Film Festival 2011
- ^ Radio Television Serbia | The Weight of Chains in London
- ^ MIFF Schedule End of World Showcase
- ^ "El peso de las cadenas" Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
- ^ Ann Arbor Docu Fest: The Weight of Chains AnnArbor.com
External links
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