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SARAJEVO 2017 Industry

Srbenka sweeps Docu Rough Cut Boutique

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- Croatian filmmaker Nebojša Slijepčević's new project won three out of five awards at Sarajevo's documentary development event

Srbenka sweeps Docu Rough Cut Boutique
The participants of 2017 Sarajevo's Docu Rough Cut Boutique (© Sarajevo Film Festival)

Sarajevo Film Festival's Docu Rough Cut Boutique, an intensive five-day programme exclusively focused on documentary films from Southeast Europe that are in production or post-production, last night announced its awards. 

Croatian filmmaker Nebojša Slijepčević's Srbenka [+see also:
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interview: Nebojša Slijepčević
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triumphed, winning three out of the total of five prizes: the €2,000 HBO Award, the Cat&Docs Award, also worth €2,000, and the Digital Cube Award of €20,000 in post-production services.

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The film is produced by Vanja Jambrović of Zagreb-based Restart, and deals with peer violence towards children of different nationality in Croatia. Slijepčević's previous film, Gangster of Love [+see also:
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trailer
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(2013), was a hit at home, selling 10,000 admissions.

The IDFA Award, which takes the winner to IDFA 2017 with sneak preview at Docs for Sale, went to the Hungarian project Ghetto Balboa [+see also:
trailer
interview: Árpád Bogdán
film profile
]
by director Árpád Bogdán and producer Laszlo Jozsa of Speak Easy Project

Another Hungarian project, Paying a Visit to Fortuna [+see also:
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, directed by Matyas Kalman and produced by Kalman and Agnes Horvath-Szabo through COLLOC Productions, won the DOK Preview Award, which takes it to DOK Leipzig's Preview programme. 

The full list of awards:

HBO Adria Award
Srbenka [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Nebojša Slijepčević
film profile
]
(Croatia)
Director: Nebojša Slijepčević
Producer: Vanja Jambrović (Restart)

IDFA Award
Ghetto Balboa [+see also:
trailer
interview: Árpád Bogdán
film profile
]
(Hungary)
Director:  Árpád Bogdán 
Producer: Laszlo Jozsa (Speak Easy Project)

DOK Preview Award
Paying a Visit to Fortuna [+see also:
film review
film profile
]
(Hungary)
Director: Matyas Kalman
Producers: Matyas Kalman, Agnes Horvath-Szabo (COLLOC Productions)

Cat&Docs Award
Srbenka

Digital Cube Award
Srbenka

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