Istina
Every year when the Oscar shortlisted shorts are announced, there are inevitable disappointments for those projects which have enjoyed festival success and yet just missed out on the big time. Oscar voters don’t always make the right choices, and as every viewer’s tastes differ it can be worth checking out those that came close. This year, one of them is Tamara Denic’s Istina (which translates roughly as ‘Truth’), the story of a Serbian photojournalist whose work documenting protests by people hostile to the mainstream media exposes her to significant personal risk. Anxious to protect her young daughter, she relocates to Germany, but even there, she may not be safe from international networks of conspiracy theorists.
This director was recently joined by producer Christia Siée and stars Nika Rozman and Milica Vuksanovic for a discussion about the film.
It began, says Tamara, with screenwriter David M Lorenz,...
Every year when the Oscar shortlisted shorts are announced, there are inevitable disappointments for those projects which have enjoyed festival success and yet just missed out on the big time. Oscar voters don’t always make the right choices, and as every viewer’s tastes differ it can be worth checking out those that came close. This year, one of them is Tamara Denic’s Istina (which translates roughly as ‘Truth’), the story of a Serbian photojournalist whose work documenting protests by people hostile to the mainstream media exposes her to significant personal risk. Anxious to protect her young daughter, she relocates to Germany, but even there, she may not be safe from international networks of conspiracy theorists.
This director was recently joined by producer Christia Siée and stars Nika Rozman and Milica Vuksanovic for a discussion about the film.
It began, says Tamara, with screenwriter David M Lorenz,...
- 12/23/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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