PHILOSOPHERS’ SQUARE - THE NEW NORMAL ReThink

Saturday, July 17
Cinema Square, 8 p.m.
PHILOSOPHERS’ SQUARE - THE NEW NORMAL
ReThink

Sehad Čekić, Director of the Film Centre of Montenegro
Milena Dragičević-Šešić, Professor emerita of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Boris Liješević, theatre director and University professor
Nenad Vujadinović, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Donja Gorica

Sehad Čekić holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Production Department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. During his career, he has been engaged in many areas of art production, especially on projects and strategies in the field of film and culture. He has been a producer on several feature and short films (Look at Me, The Ascent, and Lowdown) that have been screened at festivals around the world. In the field of film policies, he has worked on many official documents and procedures as an associate and co-author (National Program for the Development of Montenegrin Cinematography, National Strategy for Cultural Development, and the Law on Cinematography). Since 2005, Sehad Čekić has been engaged at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Montenegro, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Film Production. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the National Representative of Montenegro in the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe. Since 2017, Sehad Čekić has been the Managing Director of the Film Center of the Montenegro Public Institution.

Milena Dragićević Šešić PhD, Professor emerita of the University of Arts in Belgrade, has been engaged as the Rector of the University of Arts (2001–2004), the Head of the UNESCO Chair in Interculturalism, Art Management, and Mediation in the Balkans (2004-2019), and as a guest lecturer at universities around the world. She is an Expert of the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and the European Cultural Foundation, and a President of the European Cultural Policy Research Award. Milena Dragićević Šešić has published 20 books: Kultura i Umetnost Otpora (2018), Umetnost i Alternativa (1992/2012), Culture – Management, Animation, Marketing with B. Stojković (seven editions, six translations), Neofolk Kultura (1994), and Vers les nouvelles politiques culturelles (2015), and with S. Dragojević Art Management in Turbulent Times (2005, four translations) and Intercultural Mediation in the Balkans (2004, four translations), among others; She was a co-editor of the Cultural Sustainability in European Cities: Imagining Europolis collection of papers (2015), Cultural Policy in Times of Rising Populism (2018), and others. Her publications have been translated into 17 languages. She was awarded the French Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 2003 and the Grand Gold Plaque of the University of Arts in 2004 and 2019. Also in 2019, Milena Dragićević Šešić became the first ENCATC fellowship laureate for lifetime achievement in the field of cultural policy and management.

Boris Liješević graduated from the Serbian Literature and Language Department at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and in Direction at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, where he is now a Professor of Acting. He is a three-time scholarship holder of the Goethe Institute in Belgrade. In 2005, he participated in the Junger Buhenangehoriger Forum as part of the Teatertrefen Festival in Berlin. Boris Liješević is an associate of the Zagreb Acting Studio, where he is involved in Strasberg’s method. He is the author of projects created by recording thematic conversations with anonymous interlocutors who reveal their authentic experiences. Recently, working on the text, i.e. long-term work with the writer on the material, has marked his approach and become fundamental to his collaborations in the rehearsal hall and on the stage. Boris Liješević is the winner of the following awards: the Mira Trailović Award, the Ljubomir Muci Draškić Award, the Bojan Stupica Award, the Anđelko Štimac Award, the Petar Kočić Award, Ardalion Award, the Iskra Kulture Award, several Sterija’s awards, the Dani – Hrabri Novi Svet Sarajevo Magazine Award and the City of Belgrade Despot Stefan Lazarević Award. He was awarded for his directing at the Bar Chronicle Festival and at the Tvrđava Teatar Festival in Čortanovci. Boris Liješević is the winner of annual awards by Atelje 212, the Serbian National Theater, the Yugoslav Drama Theater, and the Belgrade Drama Theater.