Mirsad purivatra biography
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Mirsad Purivatra: Life is Beautiful
After nearly three decades as CEO of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the tireless creative of the Southeast European cinema is creating a unique hub on the Island of Lopud, bringing together Oscar winners and talented young filmmakers
Sailing to work instead of driving or cycling meant that Mirsad Purivatra not only had to change his transport, but also entire lifestyle. His ‘farewell’ to the Sarajevo Film Festival, the largest film festival in Southeast Europe, which he headed for 28 years, was attended by Bono Vox.
For the past three years, Purivatra, his wife Izeta Građević and Tilda Bogdanović have been bringing famous filmmakers together with young talents from the region at a small festival called Ponta Lopud on beautiful Lopud Island in the Elafiti Islands Archipelago close to Dubrovnik. He spends less time in his hometown of Sarajevo, since he prefers the stillness of a small village near Slano. As he says, there are no plans to make the festival bigger, only add more quality. The third edition of Ponta Lopud will take place 20–24 June, with director Ruben Östlund and actor Edward Norton as guests.
How did you imagine your future in film when you step down as CEO of SFF?
I wanted to get out of the operational process and deal on
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Sarajevo Topper Mirsad Purivatra: Festival’s ‘Spirit Cannot be Destroyed’
For many of the visitors who descended on the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, packing their day planners with meetings at the Gropius Bau and red-carpet premieres at the Berlinale Palast, there was a surreal sense of business as usual. But with coronavirus already ravaging Italy—and soon to be sweeping across the rest of Europe—Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra knew that he and his team had little time to spare.
“We started immediately to think what to do with our festival,” Purivatra told Variety on the eve of Sarajevo’s 26th edition, which runs Aug. 14-21. Even though the festival’s opening night was still months away, “we had [in mind] the worst-case scenario that it could be a bad situation with the numbers of COVID-19” cases in Bosnia.
As spring turned to summer, Purivatra and his colleagues were confident that a scaled-down version of the physical festival could still be held in the Bosnian capital, with open-air venues being marshaled into service and social-distancing protocols enacted. But those plans were scrapped just days before opening night, with the festival topper making the difficult de
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