MEET THE FILMMAKERS: BHFF PRESENTS JOSEPH PIERSON IN DISCUSSION WITH AIDA ČERKEZ, MODERATED BY JANINE DI GIOVANNI! 🎥✨

MEET THE FILMMAKERS: BHFF PRESENTS JOSEPH PIERSON IN CONVERSATION WITH AIDA ČERKEZ, MODERATED BY JANINE DI GIOVANNI

New York City, April 2022 — The Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival (BHFF) is pleased to announce the second round of special guests for its 18th annual event: president of Cypress Films, Inc., producer and director Joseph Pierson, president of the board of the Center for Investigative Journalism and esteemed journalist Aida Čerkez, and journalist and war correspondent Janine di Giovanni! More guests will be announced soon.

Our guests will be joining us after the screening of their films at this year's festival for a conversation moderated by Janine di Giovanni, followed by a live audience Q&A.

The second round of special guests for the 2022 BHFF program are:

Joseph Pierson, president of Cypress Films, Inc., founded the New York-based production company in 1987. Joseph’s most recent film is What’s This Country Called Now?, a dramatic short about the Siege of Sarajevo, filmed on location in Bosnia and Herzegovina, starring Zrinka Cvitešić and Rade Šerbedžija (Winner, Best Short, Best Actress, and Best of the Festival, East Europe Film Festival 2020, and Best Featurette, Gold Movie Awards, London 2021). Joseph’s recent producing and directing credits include Pocantico: David Rockefeller Remembers, a short documentary about Mr. Rockefeller’s ancestral home. Prior to that, Joseph directed EvenHand, a dramatic feature film shot on location in San Antonio, Texas (Sundance Channel/Arts Alliance). Joseph also produced Julian Po, starring Christian Slater and Robin Tunney (Fine Line/New Line International), and several award-winning television films, including A Child’s Christmas in Wales starring Denholm Elliott (PBS), The Sound and the Silence, a four-hour miniseries for TNT (Brenda Fricker, Ian Bannen), and Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron (Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer) for Showtime.

Aida Čerkez is a journalist and has reported from Bosnia-Herzegovina for the Associated Press for 24 years. She was the agency’s chief of bureau in Sarajevo during the 1992-95 war and its aftermath. She is now the daily news editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an investigative reporting platform for a worldwide network of independent media centers and journalists. She holds a master’s degree in political science from the European University Viadrina Frankfurt and is the president of the board of the Center for Investigative Journalism.

Janine di Giovanni is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She is currently directing a project sponsored by the UN that promotes transitional justice in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, as well as consulting for UNICEF on gender and refugee issues. She is also a Non-resident Fellow in International Security at New America, the Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and the Guggenheim Fellow. She has contributed to The Times, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Magazine, The National and many other publications. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of more than fifteen awards for her extensive work over three decades in conflict zones and during humanitarian crises in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa, including the International Women Media Foundation’s prestigious COURAGE Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters prize for non-fiction. Di Giovanni is the author of the book, The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria, which has been translated into 28 languages, seven other books on war and conflict, including The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo (1993), Madness Visible: A Memoir of War (2004), and The Vanishing (2021). She is the subject of two documentaries, 7 Days in Syria and Bearing Witness. She lives in New York City with her son.

Q&A FOLLOWING PRESENTATION 6: SATURDAY, APRIL 23 2022, 4:45PM

WHAT'S THIS COUNTRY CALLED NOW?

2018 | Joseph Pierson | 37 min

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UPOZNAJTE AUTORE: BHFF PREDSTAVLJA JOSEPH PIERSON U RAZGOVORU SA AIDOM ČERKEZ, MODERATORKA JANINE DI GIOVANNI

Njujork, April 2022 — Bosansko-Hercegovački Filmski Festival (BHFF) sa zadovoljstvom predstavlja drugu grupu specijalnih gosiju na 18. po redu filmskom festivalu: predsednika produkcijske kuće Cypress Films, Inc., producenta i reditelja Joseph Pierson, predsednicu odbora Centra za istraživačko novinarstvo i uglednu novinarku Aidu Čerkez, i novinarku i ratnu dopisnicu Janine di Giovanni! Uskoro sljede i najave ostalih gostiju festivala.

Nakon prikazivanja njihovih filmova na ovogodišnjem festivalu, gosti će nam se pridružiti u razgovoru koji moderira Janine di Giovanni, nakon čega sljedi razgovor sa publikom.

Drugu grupu specijalnih gostiju BHFF 2022 su:

Joseph Pierson, predsednik produkcijske kuće Cypress Films, Inc., je 1987. godine u Njujorku osnovao filmsku produkciju. Njegov poslednji film Kako se zove ova zemlja?, je dramatična priča o opsadi Sarajeva, snimljena na lokacijama u Bosni i Hercegovini, u kojem glave uloge tumače Zrinka Cvitešić i Rade Šerbedžija (pobednik u kategoriji za najbolji kratki film, najbolju glumicu i najbolji film na Istočnoevropskom filmskom festivalu u 2020. godini, i najbolji kratki igrani film na festivalu Gold Movie Awards, u Londonu 2021. godine). Kao producent i reditelj potpisuje Pocantico: David Rockefeller Remembers, kratak dokumentarni film o porodičnoj kući gospodina Rokfelera. Pre toga Pirson je režirao EvenHand, dramatičan triler snimljen na lokacijama u San Antoniu u Teksasu (Sundance Channel/Arts Alliance). Takođe je producirao film Julian Po, u kojem glavne uloge tumače Kristijan Slejter (Christian Slater) i Robert Tani (Robin Tunney), (Fine Line/New Line International), kao i nekoliko nagrađivanih televizijskih filmova, uključujući i Dečiji Božić (A Child’s Christmas) snimljen u Velsu sa Denholmom Eliotom (Denholm Elliott) u glavnoj ulozi (PBS), Zvuk i tišina (The Sound and the Silence), četvorosatnu mini seriju za TNT (Brenda Fricker, Ian Bannen), i po romanu Kurta Vonegata film Harrison Bergeron(Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer) za Showtime.

Aida Čerkez je novinarka koja je iz Bosne i Hercegovine izveštavala za Associated Press poslednje 24 godine. Bila je šef sarajevskog biroa te novinske agencije tokom i nakon rata 1992-95. Danas je urednica dnevnih vesti projekta Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, istraživačke platforme koja je deo međunarodne mreže nezavisnih medijskih centara i novinara. Magistrirala je političke nauke na European University Viadrina Frankfurt i predsednica je Centra za istraživačko novinarstvo.

Janine di Giovanni je viši saradnik na Jackson institutu za globalne poslove Univerziteta Yale. Trenutno vodi projekt pod pokroviteljstvom UN-a koji promovira tranzicionu pravdu u Jemenu, Iraku i Siriji, i savjetuje UNICEF o spolnim pitanjima i pitanjima izbjeglica. Ona je također Nerezidentna stipendistica za međunarodnu sigurnost u Novoj Americi, Pridružena suradnica u Ženevskom centru za sigurnosnu politiku i Guggenheim Fellow. Piše za Vanity Fair, The Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy Magazine, The National i mnoge druge publikacije. Doživotna je članica Vijeća za međunarodne odnose i dobitnica je više od petnaest nagrada za svoj opsežni rad tokom tri decenije u zonama sukoba i humanitarnih kriza na Bliskom istoku, Balkanu i Africi, uključujući i prestižnu nagradu COURAGE Međunarodne medijske fondacije žena i nagradu Američke akademije za umjetnost i književnost za publicistiku. Di Giovanni je autor knjige The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria, koja je prevedena na 28 jezika, sedam drugih knjiga o ratu i sukobima, uključujući The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo (1993), Madness Visible: A Memoir of War (2004) i The Vanishing (2021). Ona je tema dva dokumentarna filma, 7 dana u Siriji i Svjedočenje. Živi u Njujorku sa sinom.