Kosovo Review Stars comes most powerful this year at the PriFest

“- We have fantastic news for our actors, because this year, in the festival days, they have just confirmed that four Casting Directors (Casting Directors) and the programme director of Shooting Stars from European Film Promotion, says Vjosa Berisha, Prime Chief, and continues: “ - In the continuation of the activities we're developing every year to provide more support to our filmmakers, we certainly didn't want to let the actors down, because we have very talented actors, but we have very little chance of blowing them out of the country. ”

Experts who will be present will hold a number of open and closed sessions (speed-dating), individual face-to-face meetings, to give more information to actors about how to access the international market, and at the same time through meetings they will have the opportunity to explore the talent of Kosovo actors more closely.

“- This year we decided to take a step further, and with the financial support of the European Union, through European Film Festivals, to invite in Kosovo some influential personalities in the field of film in Europe, so that they can get better acquainted with the talent of our actors, just because they have limited access to travel abroad, to be active in international screening applications, or simply to explore more closely the possibility of involvement in films outside Kosovo continues further Berisha. ”

Actors interested in participating in closed sessions, sped-dating, should submit application by sending mail to [email protected] with a short biography. The condition to attend the closed meeting (speed-dating) is English language recognition. The application is also open to student acting at the conclusion of studies. The number of participants is limited. The date for admission of the biographies is June 25th, 2019.

Who are the Casting Experts (Casting Directors) you can meet at the PriFest this year?

Jeremy Zimmermann, Casting Director / England

Jeremy Zimmermann is one of the best-known Casting Director from Great Britain. Worked with international productions in the last 20 years with directors such as Peter Yates, Ron Howard, Guillermo del Toro de Richard Attenborough. It was nominated for Emmy Award in 1995. Some of the movies he worked on are Moon, Hellboy, Willow, Keeping mum, Africa United and Night Train to Lisbon. In this link you can find his work references http://zimmancisting.com/credits/

Francesco Vedovati, Casting Director / Italy

Francesco Vedovati, I The CDN, UNICD (Italy) is Casting Director from Rome, Italy. He has won the International Award for Case Director (International Castle Director Award) - 2018 in Sarajevo for Dogman's film directed by Matteo Garrone and nominated for the same award in 2017 for Pericle ll Nero's film, directed by Stefano Mordini. In 2015, he won The Silver Robbin Award for the Best Casting of Wondrous Bocaccio, directed by Paoli and Vittorio Tavian and in 2018 for Dogman's film. In 2017 he joined the European Academy of Film Sciences and Art in 2019. Francesco has worked with directors such as Valeria Golano (Mine and Euphoria), Sergio Castelto (Fortunata), Luca Guadagnjino (I am Love), Gabriele Muccino (The Last Kis), Saverio Costanzo ( In Memo of Me, Gabriele Salvatores, Gabriele Mainetti (The Call Me Jeeg and Freks Out), Danny Boyle (Trust), Fernando Mayrelles (The Pope) and George Clooney (Catch-22). For detailed filmography, see the following link: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0891677/

Yngville Hagga øsing Director / Norway

Raised in a theater - related family, she intended to become an actress. But fate wanted to be admitted to the production course at Norway's Film School.

Her passion for acting and actors, the analysis of characters, and the desire to give life to the scene of the film first in the flooring room, was the one who transferred The Hague's career as a Casting professional. In recent years, she has been working with some of Norway's best directors doing the Casting work for the renowned Thelma movies directed by Joachim Trier, Sonja, directed by Anne Sewitsky and TV drama State of Space at Petter Ness.

For more of her film visits link:  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3017953/

Ulrike Mueller, Casting Director / Germany

Ulrike Mueller I perfect the cast skills in Berlin School movies, led by Christoph Hochhausler, Angela Schanelec, Ulrich Kohler, Thomas Arslan and others. She has worked with directors known as David Wendt, Jessica Hausner, Fatih Akin and many other international film projects. The close co-operation with directors enables it to select a unique cast of both film and theatre, or even discover new talents.

Some of the movies she worked for are In my room (2018), Happy as Lazarus (2018). For more of her film visits link: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm17142/12

The PriFest started the Kosovo Youth Stars activity two years ago in order to support the promotion and promotion of Kosovo actors internationally. In the past years, a group of 17 actors has been presented to foreign guests at the festival. This year the PriFest is dedicated even more to them by putting full focus on the main activity it will have at the festival in Kosovo in Review Stars.

Meanwhile, it is a special honour that the festival will be present as well as the director of the Shooting Stars, Karin Dix, who, along with the director of the Kosovo Cinematographic Centre, Arben Zharku, who is once also a member of the European Film Promotion board, will hold a more detailed presentation of what is Shooting stars and what are the criteria for actors, to select in this very prestigious European Promotion programme.

The PriFest festival will be held next month in Pristina, on the 16-21st of July. To get easier access to various festival activities and to watch films, media representatives and film industry can be accredited on the festival website http://prifest.org/accreditation/.

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