7 June 2010
Mitko Panov (filmmaker)
Film screening “The War is Over” (2009) and conversation with director Mitko Panov
Followed by a Q&A with director Mitko Panov, script consultant Gareth Jones and film critic Nevena Dakovic.
The event is co-hosted by the UCL Mellon Programme and the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Time: 7-10.30pm
Venue: The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
About the event: This film by award-winning director, producer and screenwriter Mitko Panov is a fictionalised account of a family exiled to Switzerland during the Kosovo crisis. It is an intimate narrative that explores the experience of forced migration: the fraught decision to leave; the process of integration and adaptation to a new country; the impact on the family; and always, the yearning for homeland. Join us at the Frontline Club, a media club and venue championing independent journalism, for the screening, a panel discussion and a Q&A with Panov, film professionals and critics.
About the director: Mitko Panov was born in Macedonia and now lives and works in Switzerland. He studied Directing at the Polish National School for Film, TV and Theatre in Lodz. He has received a number of international awards for his films including the 1991 Cannes Golden Palm for best short for his reconstruction of the Warsaw ghetto in WITH RAISED HANDS, a special jury award at the Clermont Ferrand film festival 2000, and a Best Balkan Film Award at the Drama Short-Film Festival in Greece. Panov has taught at the New York University Graduate Film Department, the German State School for Film and TV in Munich, and the University of Texas at Austin-RTF. He is a founding member of the New York Film Academy, and Rockefeller, Guggenheim and Sundance Institute Fellow. The War is Over is his feature fiction debut.
Book your place: A limited number of free tickets are available for UCL students and staff. Please email intercultural-interaction@ucl.ac.uk for details. Public booking (£8 early birds, £10 standard) commences in May from The Frontline Club.
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