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Once Laureates of YFF, and Today?
filmske i TV režije na Akademiji
dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu.
Ivan Kelava, filmski i TV producent
također je proizašao iz
jednog malenog, ali iznimno
uspješnog kinokluba, Studija kreativnih
ideja Gunja iz Gunje. Iako
je upravo u okviru SKIG-a prve
uspjehe postizao na području novinarstva
(gdje je sudjelovao i na
Državnim smotrama Lidrano),
film je očito bila ljubav na drugi
pogled. Na Revijskoj sceni pojavio
se u Đurđevcu, 2005. godine
kada je zajedno s kolegom Sašom
Dugonjićem za dokumentarni
film "Prognoza: vedro i sunčano"
osvojio drugu nagradu. Na
istoj pozornici, jedan do drugog
našli su se, a da i ne znaju, budući
kolege: redatelj Dario (Lonjak) i
producent Ivan (Kelava). Godinu
dana kasnije, na Reviji u Samoboru
Saša i Ivan osvojili su dokumentarnim
filmom "Carpe Diem"
treću nagradu. Iste godine Ivan
upisuje smjer filmske, TV i kazališne
produkcije na Akademiji
dramske umjetnosti u Zagrebu.
Izuzev njihovih recentnih radova,
kao svojevrsna uvertira
na starom gradu Dubovcu, bit će
prikazani i Ivanovi i Darijevi prvi
filmski radovi: "Selo moje malo" i
"Prognoza: vedro i sunčano".
› During the last three editions
of YFF and FRFF, the old Dubovac
citadel was marked by the Dubovac
Open Air programme. It consisted
mostly of films screened at
the Pula Film Festival. The stars
of the old citadel were, therefore,
Branko Schmidt with “Metastases”,
Rajko Grlić and his “Just Between
Us”, Tomislav Radić with
“Kotlovina” etc. This year, in a
way, the stars at Dubovac are of
a different sort – the people who
were, once upon a time, themselves
stars of the Youth Film
Festival – its laureates. Thus, the
programme “Once Laureates of
YFF, and Today?” showcases previous
YFF winners – students
who later chose film art as their
profession. This year, then, the
Dubovac spotlight will be aimed
at Dario Lonjak and Ivan Kelava.
› Dario Lonjak is a film and TV
director, actually born and bred in
Karlovac, who has come out of the
Cinema Club Karlovac, that is, the
Karlovac Gimnasium Video Group,
first joining it in 2001, while still
in primary school and not minding
one bit that the Video Group
at the time admitted only high
school students. The same year,
he won the first prize in the category
of documentary film at the
Croatian Youth and Children Film
and Video Revue (in Čakovec),
with his video “ My Little Village”.
A year later, at the Revue in Pag,
he won three prizes, two from the
audience and one (the first one)
in the freestyle form, and not in
the children’s programme but the
programme for youth, for the music
video “Marlenis”. The jury decided
that even though the film
was entered in the primary school
competition, it simply stood out
so much that they moved it to a
higher age group. He completed
his award collection at the Revue
held in Đurđevac in 2005, winning
the second place with the
film “Zora”. A year later he enrolled
in the Academy of Dramatic
Art in Zagreb to study Film and
TV Production.
› Ivan Kelava is a film and TV
producer who also comes from a
small and extremely successful
cinema club, the Studio of Creative
Ideas Gunja. Even though
his first success within the Gunja
studio (SKIG) came in the field
of journalism (he participated
in Lidrano, the national literature,
drama and journalism festivals),
film had obviously been
his love “at second sight". He appeared
on the festival scene in
2005, at the Revue in Đurđevac
where, together with colleague
Saša Dugonjić, he won the second
prize for the film “Forecast: Clear
and Sunny”. That day, two future
colleagues, Dario (Lonjak) and
Ivan (Kelava) met on the same
stage, side by side, without even
knowing it yet. A year later, at
the Revue in Samobor, Saša and
Ivan won the third place with
their film “Carpe Diem” and that
same year, Ivan enrolled in the
Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb
to study Film, TV and Theatre
Production.
› In addition to their recent
films, the warm-up at the
old Dubovac fortress will be the
screening of Ivan’s and Dario’s
first films: “My Little Village”
and “Forecast: Clear and Sunny”.
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