The 5th Libertas Film Festival
The 5th Libertas Film Festival
The 5th Annual Libertas Film Festival June 26th to June 30th, 2009 in the beautiful old town of Dubrovnik, 'The Pearl of Adritic', a city built in the 7th century, surrounded by protection walls and listed as the World Heritage UNESCO site...
Libertas once again combined the excitement of World and European premieres, discovery of new Int'l and Croatian filmmakers, and the rich culture and history of the region and the city itself. In the previous years Libertas attracted industry professionals such as Academy Award winning actor Chris Cooper, Woody Harrelson, Owen Wilson,
David Dinerstein, Lakeshore Entertainment, Steve Rothenberg, Lionsgate Entertainment, Milan Trenc, 'One Night at the Museum' (writer of the comic book), Nina Kusturica, producer, Michael Ohoven, the producer of 'Capote', Maria Joao Sigalho, producer of 'Odette' from Portugal, Trevor Groth, programming director of CineVegas FF, Sanja Vejnovic, actress and producer, Albert Kapovic, producer, Vinko Bresan, director, and Goran Navojec, actor.
The first Libertas Tribute Award was given to Mr. Relja Basic, one of Croatians best known and most favorite actors of all time who performed in over 50 Croatian and over 70 foreign films, and in over 4500 theatre shows. The second one went to one of the top actresses of the world, Mrs. Gila Almagor, the star of Israeli cinema, last seen in Steven Spielberg's 'Munich' and last years Tribute Award went to Mustafa Nadarević an acting legend… See you in Dubrovnik! - source: LFF website
The Splendid ancient Dubrovnik is the best place to be in this constant changing weather time.
The 5th Libertas film festival this year was all open-air on 3 special locations.
-the Jadran cinema -the Banje beach (at the eastwest club) -the Lapad beach park The opening took place at the Jadran cinema like every year and it was really crowded with special guests and friends from all over the world.
Our guest this year was mr. Jim Sheridan, the famous director of movies as: my left foot, in the name of the father etc... On sunday 28th of june his movie In America was screened as a part of the tribute to mr. Sheridan's work. This special evening gathered the Korean and the Hungarian embassy emissars as well many of Croatian artists and actors, like Mia Begović, Sanja Vejnović, Ibrica Jusić...
After the screening the exclusive catering event took place in the magic two floor treasury 'Sponza'. The night was far from the end as in the Lazareti club loads of people enjoyed the techno performance of Slovenian DJ UMEK, while on the second floor of the 'Eastwest club' we were hooked to the dance floor by mr DJ Paul Davis...
