Ivona juka biography of donald

  • The producer, Anita Juka, is absolutely brilliant.
  • Celebrated Croatian and Montenegrin filmmaker Ivona Juka is well-known for her stirring pictures, which include the critically praised.
  • Interview: Anita and Ivona Juka: "The neglected women's voice must get a more important role in the film industry" | 4Film Production Company.

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    It takes a while in “Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day” to reach Barren Island, a notorious penal colony in the former Yugoslavia where no cells were necessary and armed guards counted on the sea to keep those incarcerated in line. However, a prison without bars reveals itself early on in writer-director Ivona Juka’s kraftfull and occasionally overzealous black-and-white drama. The film fryst vatten set in 1957, just after the country flydde the threat of fascism of the Nazis, only to fall into the clutches of communist Josef Broz Tito, who was no less shy about casting off dissenting voices, including those of the gay community.

    When Tito maintained his hold on the public’s imagination through propaganda, “Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day” unapologetically offers up a much grimmer image of his leadership through following a pair of romantically intertwined filmmakers Lovro (Dado Cosic) and Nenad (Djordje Galic). Having a supporter in the upper reaches of government from serving time in the

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    Director/Screenwriter Ivona Juka: Details the Making of Editing Is It Life, or Is It Chroma-Key?

    Reference: StudentFilmmakers Magazine, January 2007.  Director/Screenwriter Ivona Juka: Details the Making of Editing Is It Life, or Is It Chroma-Key?. Pages 20 – 25.

    Editing, a three-minute short by Croatia-based director and screenwriter, Ivona Juka, receives the second place award in the Summer Shorts 2006 competition. Juka is a student of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts (ADU) in Zagreb, Croatia; and she has directed short films, music videos, TV commercials, animated films and won several national and international film awards. Juka talks about the inspiration for her short, Editing, and the making of key scenes.

    What was the inspiration for your short film, Editing?
    This film was inspired by our desire and our need to be the masters of our own destiny, but also by our impossibility to do that in full. We all thrive and want to “edit” our own future, but at

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    Croatian Oscar Entry ‘Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day’ Director Ivona Juka Talks Challenges Of Making 1950s LGBT Persecution Drama

    Ivona Juka’s drama Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, which is Croatia’s Oscar entry this year and is screening in L.A. today as part of a guerilla awards campaign, breaks fresh ground for its exploration of the persecution of Yugoslavia’s LGBT community under Tito in the 1950s.

    Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime.

    Ćosić is joined in the film by actors from across the ex-Yugoslavia in the roles of ex-resistance comrades and cinema collaborators, including Nenad (Djordje Galic), Stevan (Slaven Doslo) and Ivan (Elmir Krivalic).

    Some 16 years after their wartime bravery, Lovro and his friends come under the scrutiny of Tito’s Communi