FESTIVALS: Successful first edition of the ReActing as a Star program at Kranj’s FF Players
KRANJ: New international program Reacting like a staraimed at promoting the integration of film and audiovisual actors in the region and increasing their presence in the European film industry, was held for the first time in the second edition Kranj Acting Film Festival (KRAFFT), 16-19. June 2022
The aim of the program is to connect actors, actors and agents and to promote them both regionally and internationally. ReActing as a Star is designed as a networking event where players can create new business opportunities while increasing their competencies and expanding their knowledge, hence the motto: “Play local, work internationally!”
The new international program included workshops by director Teona Mitevska, actor Leon Lučev and casting director Luc Besson Nathalie Chéron, with Croatian director Dalibor Matanić and Yngville Kolset Haag (kating director Joachim Trier). The worst person in the world) and Ita O’Brien (director of the movement and coordinator of intimacy for film, TV and theater), who opened the event.
Among the 20 selected actors who presented themselves to the media on 17 June 2022 were players from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Northern Macedonia and Kosovo, including Maruša Majer, Judita Franković Brdar and Zorica Nuševa.
At the round table, which took place on June 18, 2022, other guests also shared their experiences and discussed new opportunities for actors and the promotion of the film. Among the participants were, among others, the Bosnian casting director Anila Gajević, whose agency Zone represents some of the most prominent players and young talents from the region; German casting director Georg Georgy, co-founder of the casting agency Gretel & Hensel; Bosnian casting director Timka Grin (who collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard, Danis Tanović, Aida Begić, Jasmila Zbanić and Marion Haensel); Serbian Tijana Popović, who deals with PR, marketing and international relations; Macedonian casting director Kirijana A. Nikolovska (Northern Macedonia) and Croatian actress Oriana Kunčić, who has worked as a casting director since 2003.
“The ReActing as a Star program is intended for experienced film actors from Slovenia and the film region of Southeast Europe. We hope that this will increase the circulation of actors in the region and that in the coming years it will attract acting directors and agents and established directors and producers to Kranj, where they can meet a wide range of actors for potential roles in future projects in one place “, Nataša Bučar, director Slovenian Film Centeris stated in the statement.