A new film event in Dubrovnik, a festival that will offer interactive educational content, film screenings, visual attractions, and plenty of surprises, will take place for the first time from the 14th to 23rd of April 2016. During the fourteen days of this first edition of the festival ˝Quiet, please! Dubrovnik and film love each other...˝, tourists and Dubrovnik locals of all generations will have the opportunity to become acquainted with all of the ties between Dubrovnik and the history of film culture over the last hundred years.
The major highlight of this new event is an interactive exhibition about films that will be held in the ˝Luža˝ space, seven different projections with English subtitles of films shot on location in Dubrovnik, staging of selected movie scenes around the Old City (Captain America, Secret Invasion, Occupation in 26 Pictures, Kommissar X, etc.), projections of promotional tourism films, the ˝Following the Oscars˝ and ˝Game of Thrones˝ guided tours of shooting locations, an interactive map of the city with shooting locations, talks about film, a film orienteering race around the city, a film party, film quiz, and a cinema cafe – these are all activities that will provoke the attention of visitors.
The cinematic history of Dubrovnik it is about 100 years old. Around eighty feature films, animated films, and series have been filmed in Dubrovnik. One of the first foreign films, as well as the first colour film in Croatia, was filmed in Dubrovnik by the Oscar-winning director Michael Curtiz, filmed back in 1919, followed by films directed by Orson Welles, Jiria Menzel, Hayao Miyazakia (the greatest animator of all time after Walt Disney), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Roger Coreman (who taught James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola), and many others. Productions from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Russia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Turkey, Lebanon, India, and many other countries have been filmed in Dubrovnik.
The event ˝Quiet, please! Dubrovnik and film love each other...˝ will encompass educational workshops for children on the subject of making film posters, projections of tourism documentaries and promotional films about Dubrovnik, one of the programs will be completely dedicated to the Game of Thrones series, and visitors will be able to watch films in the ˝Kino Sloboda˝ movie theatre, as well as in the cinema cafe ˝Festival˝ and in the Lazaretto.
Festival partners include ˝Kinematografi Dubrovnik˝ (EDubrovnik Cinematographers), and the project is being realised with the support of the City of Dubrovnik, the City of Dubrovnik Tourist Board, and numerous sponsors.
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