03.12.2012.
A press conference on the occasion of promotion of the film “The century of the daring ones”
A press conference on the occasion of promotion of the film “The century of the daring ones”, dedicated to the centenary of the Serbian military aviation, has been held today at the Central Military Club.
The speakers at the conference were AF&AD Commander Major General Ranko Zivak, author of the film Sladjana Zaric, director Filip Colovic and director of the Military Film Centre “Zastava film” Lieutenant Colonel Mate Vujnovic.General Zivak recalled of the jubilee marking the Serbian air force, a century of existence, and expressed his gratitude to the authors of the film because it is difficult to put 100 years in less than 100 minutes.
- It is a professional challenge from which the film was created in an interesting way, technically polished, showing the history and development of the Serbian military aviation, which is not a flat upward line but a wavy one, with ups and downs. This is a movie of harmonious composition of words, pictures, documents and testimonies. So, a mosaic image was made that should be presented to a broader public, said the AD&AD Commander, adding that, for these reasons, film as media is the best form for bringing the contents closer to a wider audience.
According to General Zivak, the film is dedicated to the generations of airmen, who throughout history and development of the Serbian military aviation were up to the task, then to those who wish to learn something, because this is a documentary film, chronological and educational, and to the general public.
Lieutenant Colonel Vujnovic said that the Ministry of Defence has recognized the importance of this project, and the contribution to the film was in terms of assisting with logistics, in a professional sense. He added that in order to turn the author’s idea into practice, it was important to collect important archival material from various houses.- Since the very emergence of "Zastava film", after the Second World War, the archive has been filled with a variety of materials that testify about all the important events in the Air Force and Air Defence. "Zastava film" is a chronicler of the defence system, and in particular Air Force, about which 78 educational films were recorded, said Lieutenant Colonel Vujnovi?.
The author of the film has confirmed that the project was a great professional challenge for her.
- I had a dilemma how to make a film about a hundred years of aviation to be very popular and yet understandable to everyone. And it was one of the challenges that motivated me to go into the whole story, to make a film about the history of aviation that will not be acceptable and understandable only to aviation enthusiasts but also to "ordinary viewers," said the author of the film, adding that she was additionally motivated by information of the number of jubilees of the Serbian military aviation.
Filip Colovi? introduced the film "A century of the daring ones" from the perspective of the director and said that he divided it into three parts.
- The first and the hardest part was the initial one where we had the most interventions, the second is the post-war one in which we have the existing material, and the third, as the most challenging, the present, because we had to represent the aviation and flights today, the Director said.The film was made in co-production with Military Film Centre “Zastava film” and Serbian Broadcasting Agency, under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence.
Movie director is Filip Colovic, journalist Vesna Ilic, director of photography Petar Vujanic, editors Ivan Vasic and Mary Bogicevic, composer Vladimir Tosic, sound designer Bojan Mangovi?, graphic design by Borko Ciric, and 3D animation was Made in Feniks Creative Studio.
