Nikola Ležaić (born August 6, 1981) is a
Serbian
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film director
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,
screenwriter
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and
film producer.
Biography
Being very much into alternative culture since his teens, he used to draw comics with the local comic group called Smog.
Ležaić co-founded literary movement called
Metasynchrism. He graduated at the
Faculty of Dramatic Arts
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in
Belgrade
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.
He is mostly known for his first feature film
Tilva Roš
''Tilva Roš'' is a 2010 Serbian coming of age drama following a group of skaters from Bor, a small mining town in eastern part of Serbia, during their first summer after finishing high school.
Plot
Bor, once the largest copper mine, but now just ...
produced by Film House Kiselo Dete. It is praised as arguably the most internationally acclaimed Serbian film of the last decade
and it earned Nikola an
EFA Discovery Award Nomination in 2011.
Since 2009, he is the owner of the production company Smog Entertainment formed as a sister company of Film House Kiselo Dete. As the company's website says, Smog is the result of Nikola's urge to produce quirky moviegoer films that don't fit any profile. Smog rather chooses a lifeful mountain path than a safe freeway.
He worked as a producer on two projects, ''Neposlušni'' directed by Mina Đukić and Pogledaj me, Kusturice by Uroš Tomić.
He is also preparing his new film project.
Further reading
*Mirko Milivojevic, Introducing Wounds: "Challenging the 'Crap Theory of Pain' in Nikola Lezaić's ''Tilva Roš''", in: ''Structures of Feeling. Affectivity and the Study of Culture'', edited by Devika Sharma and Frederik Tygstrup, de Gruyter, 2015, , p. 58–65.
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1981 births
People from Bor, Serbia
Serbian film directors
Serbian screenwriters
Serbian male screenwriters
Serbian film producers
Living people
University of Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts alumni