Ivan Velisavljević

MEDIA ARCHIVE CURATOR
Ivan Velisavljević
E-mail: ivan.velisavljevic@dksg.rs

Ivan Velisavljević (Šabac, 1982), graduated from the Faculty of Philology, at the Comparative Literature Department and from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, at the Dramaturgy Department, in Belgrade. He completed his master studies in comparative literature, with the thesis on film theory, at the Zagreb University’s Faculty of Philosophy. He has worked as a journalist, columnist, film and literary critic, and his texts on film theory have been publish in the leading professional journals in former Yugoslavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA… He lectured for three years creative writing at the Faculty for Media and Communication.  As a dramaturg, he collaborated on numerous radio drama, TV programmes and theatre plays. He is an author of the book Critical Guide through the Serbian Film 2000-2007 (together with Đ.Bajić and Z. Janković). He edited the book The New Frames: Marginalised Values of Serbian Cinema (with D. Ognjanović, Clio, Beograd, 2008) and the edition of the magazine Gradac on unusual bodies / disability in culture and society (2012). Poetry books Kan (2011) and Anthology: Poets of Heteronyms (with Milan N. Lukić, 2011).  He has directed and written the screenplay for several films, out of which three were made as a coproduction of the Academy Film Centre of the Students’ City Cultural Centre. Four of his original radio dramas were broadcast on Radio Belgrade, along with about fifteen adaptations of fiction. He is the author of two performed theatre played, and as a dramaturg he collaborated on several successful theatre plays.

He received ‘Raymond  Queneau’ Prose Award, ‘Josip Kulundžić’ Award for the best published film essay, ‘Vitomir Bogić’ Award for the best young radiophonic author and the Professional Book Festival Award for a book that made a significant scientific contribution.