MARIJA PEROVIC                                                         

CURRICULUM VITAE

Associate Professor) of Film and TV Directing, and Film Script at the University of Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro ,Creative Director of International TV Festival Bar, Montenegro (2012-2016), Alumni of JFDP program (spring semester at the RTF department of University of Texas, Austin, USA)   ,Member of the Department for Film Art of Montengro Academy of Science and Art ,Student of postgraduate studies (PHD of scriptwriting) at Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade, University of Arts,  Belgrade, Serbia

Credits:          Film and TV directing / scriptwriting and awards

Director of the documentary film Some Limitless Freedom (2013). International festivals in Herceg Novi (Montenegro) and  Belgrade (Serbia).

Scriptwriter, director and producer of the feature film Look at me (2008). International festivals: Pula (Croatia), Amsterdam (Netherelands), Lublin (Poland), Herceg Novi, Mojkovac, Bar       (Montenegro). Moscow, St. Petersburg (Russia), Alexandria (Egypt), Durres (Albania), Strausbourgh, (France), Athens (Greece).

                       Awards:        

                       Best director, in section: First and Second Feature Film, at the Alexandria International Film Festival, Egypt, 2009.

                       Bronze Medal for directing, at the International Herceg Novi Film Festival, Montenegro, 2008.

                       Award for screenplay at the preproduction fund of the Montenegro Ministry of Culture, 2006.

                       Award for screenplay at the coproduction fund of the Croatian  Ministry of Culture, 2006. 

                       Director of the first montenegrian feature movie after fifteen years : Packing the monkeys, again (2004).

                       Awards:

                       The Best Movie  and the Best Director at the Film Festival in Novi Sad, 2004.

                       Bronze medal for directing at the International Selection of the Bar Television Festival, Bar, Montenegro, 2005.

 One of the directors of Vila Maria, 170 episodes, first Croatian telenovella, produced by AVA.

More than 350 TV productions, various genres - from educational to variety and drama.(RTS Belgrade, TVCG Podgorica, TV IN Podgorica, TV Avala Belgrade, TV FOX Belgrade).

Numerous industrial, advertising and promo shorts. (production: Balkan Podgorica, MAPA Podgorica, Britsh council, Atlas televizija Podgorica, NGO Montengro Mobil ART).

Five national, full scale elections and public service campaigns.

Film publicism:

Columnist of daily news ”Pobjeda”. Over 400 published essays for the independent daily ”Vijesti”. All available on the net.

Author and host of more then 80 episodes of the breakthrough television series: ”Film klub” (TV Avala Belgrade, Serbia) and ”Cinema Matine”,  (TV IN Podgorica, Montenegro).

Member of various international and professional juries.

Languages:   Montenegrian, Ex-YU languages, English

Born:              December 15, 1972, Belgrade, Yugoslavia