A.A.C. Productions

A A C Productions Ltd Ljubljana was established in 1993 as one of the first (but not the first) independent film production companies in Slovenia. As many other film directors active at that time Igor Šterk also felt that having his own production company would offer him the best possible conditions to produce his own films. At first Šterk planned to use his company just for the production of his own films but later the A A C Productions was used also to produce some shorts by other directors. Among those are Vlado Škafar's short experimental film Stari Most (The Old Bridge, 1998), which was shot in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Sonja Prosenc's Nič novega, nič pretiranega (Free Spirited Friends, 2005) for example.

Šterk's features

Ekspres Ekspres - it's production year is 1995 but it was publicly premiered only two years later, in 1997 - is regarded by many as the film that marked the beginning of the renaissance of Slovene cinema in the mid '90. With it's international success it turned the attention of international audience towards Slovene cinema again. It won more than 15 international awards at film festivals, including Grand Prix (Golden Antigone), Audience and Critics Award in Montpellier (France), Audience and "Findling" Award in Cottbus (Germany), Grand Prix at Alpe Adria Festival in Trieste (Italy), Special Jury Award at the Molodist Film Festival in Kyiv (Ukraine) and in Tromso (Norwey), Coup de Coeur Award in Mons (Belgium) and Best foreign Film Award in Palić (Serbia), etc. With Ekspres Ekspres Slovene cinema returned also into the European film distribution network after more than 20 years of its absence as it was distributed in Germany during 1999-2000. It was also quite successful on the domestic front since it won several awards at the Festival of Slovene Film in Portorož (in 1997) - Best Director, Best Actor, Best Photography and Best Sound Awards and the FIPRESCI Award - and attracted a much bigger audience to cinemas as it was usual for Slovene films in the past 20 years.

Šterk's second feature Ljubljana - made in 2002 - was the first Slovene film ever to be screened in the competition programme at the Rotterdam film festival. It run for the Tiger Award in 2002. Ljubljana was later selected also for many other important international festivals around the world (Karlovy Vary, Seattle, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Thessaloniki, Montpellier, etc) but it didn't won any international award. What concerns the domestic sphere it won two Vesna Awards (Best Actor and Best Photography) at the 2002 Festival of Slovene Film in Portorož and it become Šterk's commercially most successul film. It is regularly included in retrospectives of contemporary Slovene film abroad (like at at the Austrian National Film Festival in Graz in March 2003 or at the Chennai International Film Festival in New Delhi in 2008).

Tuning, the third feature film by Igor Šterk, had its world premiere in July 2005 in competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. At the 54th International Film Festival in Mannheim-Heidelberg in November 2005, the film Tuning received the Main Awardfor the Best Feature Film. It also received Vesuvio Award for the Best Feature Film at Napoli Film Festival. It was successfully shown at festivals all over Europe and America: Montreal, Chicago, Edinburgh, Buenos Aires, Ghent (competition), Montpellier (competiton), Denver, Kerala, etc. In 2008 a short film Vdih (Every Breath You Take) by Igor Šterk has been produced.

External links

Festival of Slovene Film website

A.A.C. Productions

Šterk's features

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