Projects of co-workers
Toni Poljanec &Tina Glavič Novak:
Hope and Despair
Screening of a documentary

Alkatraz Gallery& Video in Progress 6, AKC Metelkova City
Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 20.00
Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 11.00-20.00
Slovene Cinemateque & Festival of Migrant Film
Monday, 20 June 2016, 19.00 (followed by discussion with authors)

You are kindly invited to attend the screenings of documentary by Toni Poljanec, our co-worker within video programs. The documentary entitled Hope and Despair (Kdo je ta človek?) was made in co-production with SCCA-Ljubljana.

The documentary will be screened at the Festival of Migrant Film and at the sixth edition of international selection Video in Progress made under influence of large migrations, which took place on our territory last year.

In August 2015, Slovenian filmmakers Toni Poljanec and Tina Glavič Novak headed to Lesbos where they made the documentary video composed of numerous interviews with refugees who have endured the traumatic ordeal of travelling from Turkey on overcrowded inflatable boats. When the refugees reach the shores of European Union the prospect of hope soon turns into despair. Their new reality becomes an overcrowded and poorly maintained refugee camp. The dreams of a promised land have never been further away.

Toni Poljanec in Tina Glavič Novak: Kdo je ta človek? / Hope and Despair, 2016
HD; 29' (long version), 14'27'' (short version); color; sound
Language: English, Slovene subtitles
Producer: Hupa Brajdič
Co-producer: SCCA-Ljubljana

Tina Glavič Novak and Toni Poljanec are members of Hupa Brajdič Production, a group that focuses mainly on documentary films.

Tina Glavič Novak is a sociologist and a project leader within Hupa Brajdič production. She is mostly interested in documentary movie making, especially in its creative approach.

Toni Poljanec is working in video and film. He is co-founder of Hupa Brajdič production. He studied cultural studies and is mostly interested in marginalized themes such as refugees, prisoners and artists.
Some of their works are Grenkoba nasmeha (Biter Smile), Zaodrje (Backstage), A to je kulturologija (Is this Cultural Studies). The films were screened at Kinodvor, RTV Slovenia (national TV programme), DOKMA festival of documentary film, Luksuz festival poceni filma, Subart festival and elsewhere.

[Published: June 9, 2016]