Croatian
Film Screenings 2007/2008
in
New York and Boston
The Doors
Art Foundation presents upcoming film screenings 2007/2008 at the Two
Boots Pioneer Theater, New York, every first Thursday of the
month and at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Boston, every last Sunday
of the month.
This unique
project is a result of a creative collaboration between
The Doors
Art Foundation, the Croatian film critic Jurica Pavicic,
The New
England Friends of Croatia, the featured distribution
companies and Croatian filmmakers. For more information
please visit
our new website.
The
Mellon Route
Sunday,
November 25, 12:15 pm
Coolidge
Corner Theatre
290
Harvard St
| Brookline MA 02446 | Recording: 617.734.2500 |
Office: 617.734.2501
Tickets:
$9.75 adults, $6.75 members
Thursday,
December 6, 7:00 pm
Two
Boots Pioneer Theater
155 East 3rd Street (at Avenue A)
|
NYC|
212.591.0434|
Tickets:
$10.00 adults, $6.50 members
Seating is
limited so we encourage you to buy your tickets in
advance.
Director: Branko
Schmidt
Original
Language Title: Put
lubenica
Drama, 90
min., 2006
Production
Company: Telefilm,
HRT
Producer: Stanislav
Babic
Screenplay: Branko
Schmidt, Ognjen Svilicic
Director of
Photography: Vjekoslav
Vrdoljak
Editor: Vesna
Lazeta, Hrvoje Mrsic
Music: Miroslav
Skoro
In Croatian
with English subtitles.
Cast: Ivo
Gregurevic, Kresimir Mikic, Sun Mei, Leon Lucev, Armin Omerovic, Emir
Hadzihafizbegovic, Slobodan Maksimovic, Zijah
Sokolovic
Synopsis:
One
of the most terrible ills of our time, people trafficking, follows the
so-called Balkans
Route for smuggling people into the West.
Bosnian and Croatian papers often carry stories about groups of illegal
immigrants discovered by the police, and just as frequent are the news of
such immigrants'' deaths. The Melon Route is inspired by the true
story of twelve illegal immigrants who drowned in the river Sava on the
border of Bosnia and
Croatia. This event has been
enlarged in the script, and seen through the eyes of a young Chinese girl,
who loses her father in the accident. She enters into a tenuous
relationship with an ex-Croatian Army soldier, a cured drug addict
suffering from PTSD, who lost everything in the war. The linguistic and
cultural barriers between the two protagonists give an added dimension to
the film, shot through by the painful realization that it is hard to carry
an inescapable burden: one's place of birth.
Director's
biography:
Branko Schmidt
Branko Schmidt was born in Osijek in 1957.
After studying economy for a while, he transferred to Academy of Dramatic
Art in Zagreb, department of film and TV
directing. In 1981, he graduated with a TV Drama Early maturing of Marko
Kovac. The following year he directed Hildegard, a TV Drama that was
declared the best TV Drama in the former state. In 1988, he directed his
first feature length film Sokol ga nije volio, based on Drama by Fabijan
Sovagovic. He won the newcomer of the Year Award at Pula Film Festival. In
his career he has directed many Dramas, documentaries and a children's TV
serial Operation Barbarossa (1989) based on a novel by Ivan Kusan. In the
nineties, he directed three feature films: Duka Begovic (1991), Vukovar se
vraca kuci (1994) and Christmas in Vienna (1997). He won "Zlatna arena"
award for Best Screenplay for the last one. Filmography: Sokol ga nije
volio (1988) • Duka Begovic (1991) • Vukovar se vraca kuci (1994) •
Christmas in Vienna (1997) • The Old Oak Blues
(2000).
Directions:
Two Boots
Pioneer Theater
Subways
- F or V
train to Lower East Side / Second Avenue.
Exit toward 1st
Avenue. Walk north (away from Houston) to
3rd
street, then east just past Avenue A to 155
East 3rd.
Buses
- 9 or 21
bus to Houston
Street and Avenue A. Walk north to 3rd Street.
Turn east and go a few doors down to 155 East 3rd.
- 14A bus to
3rd
street and Avenue A. The 8 and 15 buses also
come relatively close, as do these trains: 6 (Bleecker
Street station), B and D (Grand Street),
JMZ (Delancey / Essex), and L (1st Ave).
Coolidge
Corner Theatre
Subways
- take the Green Line (C branch to
Cleveland
Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge
Corner via Beacon
Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at
Harvard
Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore
Square.
Buses
- take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard
Square. All buses and trolleys stop at the
Harvard
Street/ Beacon Street intersection.