Years active 1997–present | Name Gregor Zupanc | |
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Born 5 July 1976 (age 47) ( 1976-07-05 ) Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia Occupation director, writer, music video director, TV producer. Notable work Pecina, Mediteran, Moj licni pecat, Radiovizija | ||
Gregor Zupanc - showreel
Gregor Zupanc, (born 5 July 1976) became involved in film and TV directing in 1998, when he was 21 years old, in the creative workshops for extraordinary talents: „Research Centre of Radio Television of Serbia". There he made his first experimental film "KA.K." inspired by Franz Kafka and by the visual aesthetics of the Belgrade painter Kosta Bunusevac. Gregor made one feature film Mediteran (2008), numerous music videos, TV Shows, several short films and documentaries. One of them, Pećina (The Cave) was awarded at the Belgrade documentary and short film festival.
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- Television
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- Corporate Movies
- Commercials
- Contemporary art
- Awards
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Career
After he had abandoned the Faculty of Physical Education, (1998) he attended a two-year film school "Dunav Film". He attended the class of Srdjan Karanovic, well known and awarded Serbian film director and Vladimir Blaževski, awarded Macedonian film director. During faculty Gregor made several short films and documentaries. (The Cut, The Founders of the Square Slavija, The Cave). After finishing Dunav Film School, for a period of six years (2000–2006), he worked at Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) within the broadcast projects on all three RTS channels. As a director and screenwriter, he worked on over 200 documentary episodes and live TV programs, in the area of culture, education and entertainment.
In 2004, together with Ivan Valkovic, Gregor has founded the non-governmental organization for the education of young journalistic talents "Fame". During the program, he has established a workshop for young journalists in which 80 young people were going through a free two-month course of TV journalism. The project demanded producing a 12 episodes of one-hour educational TV quiz show "15 Minutes of Fame" where young journalists were competing in the field of television genres: Talk Show, News, Writing for TV etc. Every show has a different jury which was elected from Serbian top experts in the field of journalism: Mira Adanja Polak, Bogdan Tirnanić, Duska Jovanić, Borislav Miljanović, Igor Miklja.
The show was pick up by RTS and aired on prime time at the third national television channel, and it had two successful seasons (24 episodes). After the end of the show, winner and more than 30 young journalists found a job in the leading Serbian electronic media: radio, television, and Internet portals. By order of the City Secretariat of Health, in 2009 he directed and produced socially engaged film "Mediteran" about the problem of drug addicts in Belgrade. The film is intended for young people with the aim to educate about the harmful effects of drugs. Film in duration of 60 min have been successfully demonstrated in over 250 primary and secondary school, was in regular cinemas, got very good reviews in the media and has participated in several international festivals: New York Film video, Cine Pobre film festival, Kino Otok Izola Cinema Festival. In a period 2012–2014 was Editor in Chief of www.superste.net, prestigious web portal for culture, science and young talents funded by Erste Bank Novi Sad.
In 2012 and 2013 Gregor created National television contest awarded TV to Web entertaining and educational show Moj Lični Pečat (My Personal Mark). 50 episodes of documentary series were broadcast on prime time on the first channel of Radio Television Serbia. In this series, great and famous personalities from art, culture and science succinctly, in an interesting manner and emotionally, tell a story about the key moment of their career. During the broadcast of the first season the show has been recognized in media as a true "encourage with culture on television," and experienced a real boom in the television market, while the most prominent daily newspapers came out very favorably by most relevant criticism of the Serbian TV critic, Branka Otašević.
Radiovizija (Radiovison) TV show is Ministry of Culture awarded TV format, which has been broadcast at prime time on the first channel of Radio Television Serbia (RTS) since October 2014 . “Radiovizija brings alive stories buried in the archive of Radio Belgrade. Ivo Andrić, Desanka Maksimović, Veljko Kovačević, Rahela Ferari, Branko Ćopić, Radivoj Kašanin, Ljubica Cuca Sokić and numerous other prominent historic figures shared their thoughts and visions with Radio Belgrade listeners for nearly a century. Now these stories come alive by some of the best Serbian comic book artist.”
Filmography
Television
Videography
Radio Plays
Corporate Movies
Commercials
Contemporary art
Director/Co-Writer of the short film “Interview with War” – part of multimedia project "The Interview" famous Greek artist Stephanos Tsivopulos who lives and works in Amsterdam. The project is the authorship work of Stephanos where Gregor participate as a major film director. The project was screened at major international festivals of contemporary art from Thessaloniki to New York.
Awards
TV Novosti Award for documentary film The Cave (Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, 2000)