Nina Kusturica
Nina Kusturica (* 1975 in Mostar ) is an Austrian film director , film editor , screenwriter and producer from Bosnia- Herzegovina . She also works as a theater director and lecturer .
Life
Nina Kusturica studied from 1993 at the University of Music and Performing Arts - Film Academy Vienna, directing in the class of Prof. Peter Patzak and editing. She comes from a family of artists: her mother Ratka Krstulović-Kusturica is a theater actress, her father Abid Kusturica is a conductor. She is the niece of the Croatian actress Zdravka Krstulović.
Nina Kusturica's first feature film, Ausege - about three women affected by domestic violence - celebrated its international premiere in 2004 at the Berlin Film Festival in the Forum des Junge Films, opened the Diagonale - the festival of Austrian film in 2003 - and was awarded for FIRST STEPS AWARD nominated in Berlin.
In 2009 her documentary Little Alien - a film about unaccompanied underage refugees at the borders of the EU and in Austria - was released, which was shown at numerous international festivals and received several awards (including the OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD - intercultural dialogue - awarded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Culture , ERASMUS EuroMedia Grand Award - presented by the European Society for Education and Communication).
The international premiere of her feature film Ciao Chérie (2018) took place at the Hofer Filmtage, and Kusturica received a nomination for the Austrian Film Prize for editing.
The exhibitions of her films were held in Vienna in 2010 and in Cairo in 2012. In 2015 she was invited as a guest artist at the European Forum Alpbach.
As a teacher and lecturer, she holds seminars, workshops and lectures both in Austria and internationally at various universities and institutes on film, directing and acting.
Her texts are published in magazines and publications and her work finds its way into relevant literature on film.
Nina Kusturica lives with her family in Vienna.
Filmography (selection)
Direction / script / editing / production
- 1998: I'm the new star , documentary, 15 min.
- 1999: Wishes , short film, 20 min.
- 2000: Draga Ljiljana - love Ljiliana , documentary, 31 min.
- 2001: Freedom , short film, 14 min.
- 2003: Ausege , feature film, 90 min., Screenplay Barbara Albert
- 2004: 24 realities per second - Michael Haneke in the film , documentary, 58 min., Co-director with Eva Testor
- 2009: Little Alien , documentary, 94 min.
- 2017: Ciao Chérie , feature film, 87 min.
Production / editing
- 1997: Speak Easy , short film, editor
- 1999: Reading makes dead , feature film, editing
- 2002: Loud and clear , documentary, editing
- 2005: Kotsch , feature film, editing
- 2007: On the line - Paul Flora in the film documentary, production
- 2007: Vienna's Lost Daughters , feature documentary, production / editing
- 2013: Pop star , feature documentary, production
Awards
- Draga Ljiljana: Special mention from the jury - Diagonale, 2000
- Freedom: Nomination for the Max Ophüls Prize, 2001
- Way out: Nomination for the FIRST STEPS AWARD Berlin, 2004; FIRST PRIZE OF THE YOUTH JURY, Special Mention Cast, Second Prize of the Jury - International Women Film Festival Torino, 2005
- Kotsch: Best artistic montage feature film - Diagonale, together with Bernhard Schmid, 2007
- Little Alien: OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD - intercultural dialogue - awarded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Culture, 2010; CHRIS Award 'Social Issues' - Columbus International Film & Video Festival, 2010; BEST INTEGRAL REALIZATION - Bruxelles Fiction & Documentary Festival, 2010; Best Editing & 2nd Place in the Best Documentary Category - Los Angeles International Film Festival, 2010; ERASMUS EuroMedia Grand Award - presented by the European Society for Education and Communication, 2011
- Ciao Chérie: Nomination for Best Editing - Austrian Film Award, 2019; BEST WRITING - TONINO GUERRA AWARD Blow-Up Arthouse Film Festival Chicago, 2018
Productions (selection)
- 2015 Pappà Leone, play by Olja Runjic, Theater Akzent Vienna
- 2018 slay the poor! Production based on a novel by Shumona Sinha , Werk X, Vienna
- 2019 Rule of Thumb (rules of thumb) play by Iva Brdar, Kosmostheater Vienna
Web links
- official homepage
- Official Little Alien Homepage
- Nina Kusturica in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Ciao Chérie homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kusturica, Nina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian film director, film editor and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mostar , Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |