CineLink Jury Members 2005
BEHROOZ HASHEMIAN
Behrooz Hashemian is Paris based independent producer. With Setareh Farsi he established Silkroad Production in July 2000. He has produced following films: Manhatten by numbers, directed by Amir Naderi, Journey to the Sun by Yesim Ustaoglu (won Blue Angel and Peace Film Award at 1999 Berlin International Film Festival) and Waiting for the Clouds by the same author. He co-produced How I killed the Saint by Teona Mitevska, In this World by Michael Winterbottom (2003 Golden Berlin Bear) and Half Moon by Bahman Ghobadi (2006 Grand Prix San Sebastian Film Festival). He is a co-producer of I am from Titov Veles by Teona Mitevska (Sarajevo Film Festival - Special Jury Award) and Pandora`s Box by Yesinm Ustaoglu-release Fall 2008. Tabha do bar zendegi mikonim (2008) by Behnam Behzadi. Waiting for the Sea by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov in pre-production.
ČEDORIM KOLAR
Čedomir Kolar was born in former Yugoslavia, in the city of Rijeka on the Adriatic coast of Croatia. He graduated in film production at the Belgrade Academy of Dramatic Arts. From 1975 to 1990, he worked as a film critic correspondant in Rome, for various Yugoslav magazines. For many years, he acted as an Asistant to the delegate of the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema in Venice, but also as representative and selector for the Belgrade International Film Festival. In 1984, he moved into feature films and TV series production. Among his many credits we find feature films such as Giuliano Montaldo´s Les Lunettes d’Or . From 1990 to 1991, he worked as a producer for Constellation Productions in Paris. During this period he contributes to the production of feature films such as: Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica, When the Stars Were Red by Dusan Trandick, Virgina by Srdjan Karanovic or Pargue by Ian Sellar. Since 1991, he has been acting as producer for Noé Productions in Paris. His credits include Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski, Africa my Africa and Kini and Adams by Idrissa Ouedraogo, As you like me by Carmine Amoroso, Train of Life by Radu Mihaileanu, The Adopted Son and The Chimp by Aktan Abdykalykov, No Man’s Land by Danis Tanovic and Danis Tanovic’s short film in the collection of films 11’09 01-September 11 , produced by Galatée films and StudioCanal. In 2003 he started the new Paris based production entity, A.S.A.P. Films , together with the director Danis Tanovic and his fellow producer Marc Baschet. In 2005 he produced for A.S.A.P. Films Danis Tanovic’s feature film Hell ( L’Enfer ) written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz in collaboration with the late Krzysztof Kieslowski, with Emmanuelle Béart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain, Guillaume Cannet, Jacque Gamblin, Jacque Perrin, Carole Bouquet et Miki Manojlovic. In 2004 and 2005 he also co-produced Benjamin Filipovic’s film Well tempered Corpses as well as, in 2006, Marion Hänsel’s Sounds of Sand ( Si Le Vent Souleve Les Sables). In 2008/09 Cedomir produced Danis Tanovic’s film Triage , after the novel by Scott Anderson with Colin Farrell, Paz Vega and Christopher Lee. The film will have the world premiere in Toronto in September 2009, as well as the film Besa by Serbian director Srdjan Karanovic. Cedomir is actually working on the film The Light by Aktan Arym Kubat (a.k.a Abdykalykov). The shooting of the film will start in early June 2009 in the region of the lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan. The new film by Danis Tanovic, Cirkus Columbia , after the novel by Ivica Djikic, will start shooting in October 2009 in Bosnia and in Slovenia with Miki Manojlovic and Mira Furlan in the lead roles.
PHILIPPE BOBER
Founder of Coproduction Office. As producer he was involved in the work on the films: Europa, The Kingdom, Breaking The Waves by Lars von Trier, Battle In Heaven by Carlos Reygadas, Roy Andersson's Song From The Second Floor and You The Living, Kornel Mundruczo's Pleasant Days, Johanna and Delta, Jessica Hausner's Lovely Rita and Urlich Seidl's Dog Days and Import Export. Selector of the New Currents Programme of the Sarajevo Film Festival.