The project of the first feature film Antitalents by actor, director and screenwriter Radivoje Raša Bukvić and producer Jovana Jovićić was selected among 24 projects from 19 countries for the international co-production forum Kids Kino Industry which takes place as a part of the Kids Kino Film Festival, which will be held in a hybrid edition from September 28th to October 1st in Warsaw, Poland.
The project was also selected for the Transylvania Pitch Stop co-production platform as part of the 20th Transylvania International Film Festival in Romania (Cluj-Napoca), and was also selected in the Plus Minus One category of the Sofia Meetings co-production market at the 25th Sofia International Film Festival. 2021.
Antitalents is a coming-of-age drama maturing with elements of a musical inspired by a true event that took place in 1993 in the city of Sombor in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The story is about a mathematical genius, a shy fourteen-year-old boy who, at the dawn of the wars of the 1990s, joins the arms trade to buy a bass guitar, all with the hope that, like a school band musician, the most beautiful girl in school will fall in love with him.
The story of director and screenwriter Radivoje Raša Bukvić with co-screenwriters Vuk Ršumović and Igor Latinović was created within the young production company Prikaz Film, as a co-production between Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, France and Hungary. The project has so far been supported by the city of Sombor, as well as in the competitions organized by Film Center Serbia for screenplay development in 2018 and project development in 2020.
Illustration by Milenko Jeremić.