CDRSEE :: Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe

News

16-18 December, 2011 – History Education Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. The Joint History Project's History Education Committee finalised its push to expand this highly successful history book series to cover more recent times. During a two-day meeting in Belgrade, the editors and contributors discussed the publication within a larger circle of participants and received input from a renowned international expert in the field of Southeast European History. The fruitful meeting was the last in a series of three meetings made possible by the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Institute for Sustainable Communities.

2 – 4 December, Dynamic Teaching Tools Concept Meeting in Thessaloniki – Some of the most accomplished educators and researchers from the region and from the United States gathered in Thessaloniki to create the framework for a new dynamic teaching methodology tool. This talented, multi-faceted group will ultimately publish a manual that will provide teachers with the latest research on teaching methods and ideas on how these methods can be used in their classrooms. While this project builds upon CDRSEE's highly successful Joint History Project, the information and ideas within will not be limited to history classes, but rather will be focused on the art of teaching in a rapidly changing society. The manual will be translated into six different languages. This was the first meeting, with the next scheduled for spring 2012 in Tirana. The project is funded by the European Union, under the IPA Programme.

1 December, 2011 – CDRSEE and the European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) will kick off a new project in December, organising a series of lively debates about controversial regional issues and broadcasting these debates via major local TV stations throughout the region. The idea of “Similarities Between Differences” is to foster an exchange of ideas and a real debate about the issues that are plaguing these countries, impeding EU accession and reconciliation. This is not your everyday talk show. This series will bring together untainted, well-respected and unbiased individuals from a wide field of social sciences, including anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, applied ethics and many others. The topics will not be easy or comfortable, but the wider debates that spring from this series can lead to real solutions and a mutual understanding. More information on the EFB is available at www.balkanfund.org.

Read all news

Projects - SEE film

SEE FILM

The CDRSEE and the SEE Film are planning a common project with the following objectives:

Long term

To facilitate a long-term genuine reconciliation process in the Western Balkans
To enhance the role of women and of youth in that process
To conceive and re-animate the cultural identity of ex-Yugoslavia

Short term

To create a piece of art that stimulates reflection on the experiences, shared realities, and recent violent conflict in the region;
To reveal the reality of today's youth – their hopes, dreams, experiences, wishes, fears – further complicated by life in a post-war society;
To provide a forum for artistic, cross-border co-operation.

SEE Film is a non-governmental organisation specialised in work on cooperation among countries of South Eastern Europe in various spheres of filmmaking activity. This work is linked to film activities of other parts of Europe, both in the sense of co-operation with European film institutions and funds, and in the promotion of quality film in both directions.

The establishment of a complementary non-governmental organisation is currently underway in the United States (SEE Film, USA), an organisation that would offer programmatic and financial support to certain individual projects and programmes, as well as efforts of SEE Film, Belgrade to activate filmmaking cooperation in the SEE region.

SEE Film was founded in Belgrade by a group of film professionals at the end of 2001. The founder and director is film critic Nenad Dukic. Apart from the team of people operating in Belgrade , SEE Film also has experts/consultants in other countries of the SEE region. The intention is for this cooperation with experts-individuals to grow in the future into separate branches/offices.

Also to be formed soon is the SEE Film International Board and SEE Film Advisory Board whose members would be reputable filmmakers and professionals from the SEE region and other parts of Europe . Similar consultative bodies will also be formed within SEE Film, USA.

Activity

SEE Film has several spheres of activity and, consequently, several programme departments:

1. New Projects Laboratory

Screenplay Development Assistance

Creative Production Supervision

Conception of models/programmes for co-production cooperation within the SEE region, the establishment of ties with European film funds and cooperation with SEE Film , USA .

These programmes refer to the spheres of feature film, children's film and animated film.

2. Special Events Programme: Festivals and reviews of quality film exchanged between SEE film and European film.

3. Festival Promotion: Contacts and promotion of films of the SEE region at international festivals.

4. Creative Information, Publications and Education Program, CIPEP:

Database (DB) – the collection and analysis (in the form of a Bulletin) of quality information about the potentials and topical issues in the filmmaking of the SEE region.
The foundation (in the future) of a film magazine (SEE Film Magazine) as a result of the previous co-operation among magazines in the SEE region. The magazine, as well as the Bulletin, would be published in the English language so as to be accessible to all interested film institutions, companies and individuals.
Organisation of domestic and international panel discussions, seminars and professional workshops whose goal would be to transfer European knowledge and experiences in the sphere of production and other creative filmmaking spheres to filmmakers in the SEE region. (In cooperation with the Education Center of the Belgrade University of Arts).

Financing

SEE Film is a non-profit association whose work is financed by donations provided by domestic and foreign organisations for the preparation of certain projects, as well as by SEE Film's Professional Services Fee.

In line with the Statute, i.e. the prescribed rules for the foundation of non-governmental organisations, if a certain project were to achieve extra profit, this money must be invested in the development of new projects, especially those which are non-commercial.

CURRICULUM VITAE, Nenad Dukic

- Film critic for Radio Belgrade since 1980.

Publishes articles in domestic and foreign magazines ( Filmograf, Filmska Kultura, Sineast, Moving Pictures, European film reviews ), and presents texts on the radio and television ( BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, the Berlin radio SFB, TV Belgrade, TV YUinfo ).

Publishes theoretical texts on acting in the magazines Scena, Polja, Filmograf .

- For years a correspondent of the American film weekly »The Hollywood Reporter« (1989-1996).

Held lectures on contemporary Yugoslav film at foreign universities ( William Patterson University, New York; George Masson University, Washington ), 2000.

President or member of the jury of critics at leading international film festivals ( Cannes , San Sebastian , Toronto , Karlovy Vary ...).

Vice-chairman (in two terms-in-office) of the International Film Critics' Federation (FIPRESCI), then the director of the FIPRESCI special projects department, 1996-2000 (seated in Munich ).

- Chairman of the Yugoslav section of the International Film Critics' Federation, 1989-1996.

- Vice-chairman of the Balkan Film Board , since 1995 (seated in Athens ).

- Member of the presidency of the Yugoslav Film Academy , since 1997.

- Artistic director of the Belgrade International Film Festival – FEST (1995-

1997).

- Programmer of the International Film Festival in San Sebastian (1995-97) and the British Film Festival in Belgrade (since 1997.)

- Recipient of the Belgrade Film Institute's » Golden Pen « award for the best critique published in Yugoslavia in 1985.

Graduated (in production) and completed post-graduate studies (theory and history) at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade .

- One of the founders and first journalists of Radio Avala, 1969 (later RTV Studio B), the first independent radio station in ex Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe .

- Born in Belgrade on October 5, 1947 .