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Director Vladan Nikolic is currently in post-production on his latest film, Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened, and preparing for a crowdfunding campaign to raise final costs. The filmmakers have shared with Filmmaker a teaser trailer, above, as well as the following statement about the film, which plans to premiere in festivals in 2024 Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened, a very ambitious no budget narrative feature film is in the works. Billed as a “collaborative film,” led by filmmaker and professor Vladan Nikolic, it was made with the help of filmmakers and actors from around the world. […]

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Director Vladan Nikolic is currently in post-production on his latest film, Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened, and preparing for a crowdfunding campaign to raise final costs. The filmmakers have shared with Filmmaker a teaser trailer, above, as well as the following statement about the film, which plans to premiere in festivals in 2024 Everything That Will Happen Has Already Happened, a very ambitious no budget narrative feature film is in the works. Billed as a “collaborative film,” led by filmmaker and professor Vladan Nikolic, it was made with the help of filmmakers and actors from around the world. […]

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Exclusive: Danny Glover drama The Drummer has been acquired in North America by 1091 Pictures.

Glover is also an executive-producer on the feature drama in which three interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations.

Glover stars as Mark Walker, a Vietnam war veteran who has become a lawyer and political advocate for soldiers who have suffered mental health issues through their tenure with the Army. Walker works at The Drummer, a small, “anti-war” coffee shop, where the soldiers he meets open up the issue of the mental struggles and physical toll that war takes on veterans.

Eric Werthman directs. The film is a N and J Productions film, written by Werthman and Jessica Gohlke, produced by Werthman and Vladan Nikolic. Cinematography comes from Marcin Kapron, editing is by Erin Greenwell and the original score is by Clare Manchon and Olivier Manchon.

The Coronavirus is having a widespread impact on people, governments, businesses, and events around the world, and the Fantaspoa Film Festival announced that it will postpone this year's event, with plans to launch "Fantaspoa at Home" to offer seven feature films every week at www.fantaspoaathome.com starting April 1st:

Porto Alegre, Brazil - 24 March 2019 - It is with great sorrow and heavy hearts that the Fantaspoa Film Festival announces that it will postpone its upcoming 16th edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic currently sweeping the world. Initially scheduled for this coming May, the festival directors forecast that this year's edition will now take place between the months of October and December, 2020, if deemed responsible and safe at that time.

Due to executive decisions made by the Brazilian government prior to this unprecedented health crisis, Fantaspoa and countless other organizations dedicated to the arts were stripped of all federal sponsorship money.

Set in the distant past of 2011, when the Occupy movement was still roaring and all hope was not yet lost, Vladan Nikolic's Allure struggles to make sense of an uprising that didn't ascend to the heights many had hoped. It doesn't help that the docudrama is arriving neither in the heat of the moment nor with more than a few years' worth of hindsight on a movement whose full implications have yet to be sussed out. Nikolic does contribute to that effort, however, with a multicultural portrait of several women either directly involved in or tangentially affected by Occupy; the more he expands beyond this core element, the more interesting Allure becomes. The filmmaker, originally from Serbia, has a sensitive understanding of the immigrant experience s...

Ask an independent filmmaker his or her stance on torrents, and you’re likely to get an impassioned response – one that’s not necessarily negative. I’ve spoken with handfuls of filmmakers who regard the brand of piracy as a beneficial, near audience-building exercise. In an article from 2011, Filmmaker contributor Anthony Kaufman suggested that torrents, “should be considered [as] just one more element in a hybrid distribution strategy.” Weighing in on the issue, New School professor and filmmaker Vladan Nikolic noted that, “Viewers don’t overlap that much. Those who watch iTunes and cable don’t use BitTorrents.” A couple years later, Drafthouse […]...

Ask an independent filmmaker his or her stance on torrents, and you’re likely to get an impassioned response – one that’s not necessarily negative. I’ve spoken with handfuls of filmmakers who regard the brand of piracy as a beneficial, near audience-building exercise. In an article from 2011, Filmmaker contributor Anthony Kaufman suggested that torrents, “should be considered [as] just one more element in a hybrid distribution strategy.” Weighing in on the issue, New School professor and filmmaker Vladan Nikolic noted that, “Viewers don’t overlap that much. Those who watch iTunes and cable don’t use BitTorrents.” A couple years later, Drafthouse […]...

Cinema Beyond Boundaries wrapped its weekend stretch in New York on September 29 at Sva (School of Visual Arts)with educational sessions redefining the world cinema for film enthusiasts. The two- day conference was attended by filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar from east and well- known panelists including film director Micheal Canzoniero and Dan Fogler, music composer Wayne Sharpe, director and producer Vladan Nikolic and actors Reshma Shetty and Ajay Naidu.

Other panelists were Aroon Shivdasani, School of Visual Arts NYC president Reeves Lehmann and Tanuj Chopra with moderators Anna Swanson and Vishesh Sharma.

The event was presented by Molecule Communications whose founders, brother- sister duo, Ajay Shrivastav and Kiren Shrivastav aimed at educating guests on the inside workings of the industry from contracts, to unions, to first hand experiences of actors, directors, screenwriters and producers from different kind of cinema starting with Indian and American cinema. Event was attended by film students,...

Molecule Communication in collaboration with Sva & SAG/AFTRA Presents Ticket 2 Bollywood “Cinema Beyond Boundaries” the 2nd annual conference for successful film industry professionals working in the Bollywood and New York film industries. Over three days of panels, workshops and receptions where today’s hottest writers, directors, musicians and actors recount experiences in the field and lessons learned. They will offer personal insights and forecast changes in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global film making industry, while also taking the opportunity to extend their professional networks. CBB will focus on global cinema opportunities, bringing Hollywood and Bollywood film professionals together to discuss screenwriting trends, co production opportunities, and international film financing to connect the world’s most important film industries.

Guest Speakers from the East:

Madhur Bhandarkar: Screenwriter/Producer/Director; Fashion, Jail, Heroine, Chandni Bar Sanjay Gupta: Screenwriter/Director/Producer; Kaante, Shootout at Wadala, Dus Kahaniya Aunradha Tiwari: Screenwriter; Fashion,...

Cinema Beyond Boundaries is an initiative taken by Molecule Communications which will have film professionals, globally participating in this event on filmmaking. Madhur Bhandarkar has been invited to join the likes of Micheal Canzoneiro, Dan Fogler, Vladan Nikolic, Wayne Sharp, a popular Bollywood music composer to grace the event.

Excited about this conference, Madhur said, "Indian cinema is no more limited to audiences in India. We have viewers all around the world and hence understanding the global perspective is a must. Molecule Communications' Cinema Beyond Boundaries would get the viewers and the filmmakers together and would help us in serving them with good quality cinema."

It's a three day festival which will be held at New York from September 27 will focus on the global influence of Indian cinema. Actors, directors, writers and even music directors will come together to bring cinema beyond the Indian Diaspora by blending different cultures.

Year: 2011

Directors: Vladan Nikolic

Writers: Vladan Nikolic

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Ben Austwick

Rating: 2 out of 10

There.s nothing wrong with being pretentious if you.ve got the intellect and ideas to back it up. Why not rewrite the rulebook and sneer at those around you if what you.re doing is better than everyone else? But it really has to be very good, otherwise you.re going to come over a complete idiot.

This confusing and badly-written film is set in the near future, where a population genetically modified into a permanent state of happiness seek out black market drugs just so they can feel something, even if that feeling is pain. Jack is a drug dealer, inhabiting a familiar underground of graffitied streets and sterile, gothy raves, who uncovers a murky conspiracy explained in a series of numbered tapes, discoveries of which introduce each chapter of the film.

As Vladan Nikolic’s Zenith continues its slow roll-out — finishing its U.S. screenings while premiering on Amazon and iTunes — I thought I’d post on the blog this piece on the film that originally ran in slightly different form in our Winter, 2011 issue.

“What is Zenith?” was the question posed on About Top Secret and other conspiracy-related websites last Spring. Paranoid-minded posters jumped in and followed a breadcrumb-trail of online clues relating to everything from the Bavarian Illuminati and fluoridated drinking water to biochemistry and the New World Order. They clicked through a maze of 50 other websites (priestoftruth.com, endoftheworldcountdown.us, stopzenith.com), trolled search engines, and finally came across a stash of “illegal” tapes posted on YouTube by one Ed Crowley, whose own site dated back to 2008 and seemed to be filled with standard issue anti-Obama birther invective.

So far so normal in the Glenn Beck Nation. But...

I'm not sure exactly how to quantify or explain Zenith to the unitiated, but writer/director Vladan Nikolic's dystopian nightmare is hitting iTunes, and it's certainly a curious movie. Its IMDb page describes it as "A retro-futuristic steam-punk thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity." And admittedly, all those parts are in it, but it's also something else entirely involving perpetual self-medication (through pain, no less) wrapped up in seemingly unbreakable patterns of self-destruction. If the psychic barrier of entry doesn't seem too high, I'd advise you to check out this micro-budget thriller, if for no other reason than that it's damned different and a lot strange. iTunes Link....

The low-budget science-fiction thriller Zenith—credited as “a film by anonymous,” but written, directed, and produced by Vladan Nikolic—is both a movie and an experiment in world-building. Set in a not-too-distant future where human beings have been genetically modified to be happy, Zenith stars Peter Scanavino as an epileptic whose spells of misery let him access the secret knowledge that his numbed fellow citizens have lost. Through his connections in an underground ring of pain-dealing drug lords, Scanavino begins to collect videotapes made decades ago by his father (Jason Robards III), a former Catholic priest whose life changed when ...

With the Sundance Film Festival set to begin Thursday, filmmakers must decide the best approach for standing out in the crowd. A strategy worth considering is found in "Zenith," a film that has had virtually no festival exposure but begins its theatrical release Jan. 19. Directed by Serbian-American filmmaker Vladan Nikolic, science-fiction thriller "Zenith" alternately takes place in the year 2044 and the present day. Nikolic imagines a bleak future ...

Welcome to the year 2044, as envi sioned by the sci- fi thriller "Ze nith." The popu lace has been genetically altered to be happy all the time -- but that creates what one character calls "permanent numbness." To feel alive, people seek pain through the side effects of out-of-date prescription drugs. Only then are they truly happy. Directed by Siberian-born New Yorker Vladan Nikolic, "Zenith" stars Peter Scanavino as a drug dealer, Jason Robards III as his deceased dad and...

Editor’s Note: This is one of several interviews, conducted via email, with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. “Here and There” (World Narrative Feature Competition) Feature Narrative, 2009, 90 min., Germany, Serbia, U.S. Director: Darko Lungulov Primary Cast: David Thornton, Mirjana Karanovic, Branislav Trifunovic, Cyndi Lauper, Jelena Mrdja, Antone Pagan Screenwriter: Darko Lungulov Producers: Darko Lungulov, Djordjije Lekovic, Vladan Nikolic Director of Photography: Mathias Schoeningh Editor: …...

ROME -- U.S. independent productions will be on prominent display at the second installment of Venice Days, the sidebar event that will unspool during the 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. This year's lineup, which for the first time expands to include films from outside Europe, has a decidedly multicultural, global integration theme. Three of the 12 films in the official selection are American-themed co-productions, two of which are set in New York. Iranian director Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart follows a night in the life of a Pakistani immigrant on the streets of Manhattan. Serbian director Vladan Nikolic's romantic thriller Love is a low-budget exploration of love from the points of view of numerous characters from various parts of the world.

ROME -- U.S. independent productions will be on prominent display at the second installment of Venice Days, the sidebar event that will unspool during the 62nd annual Venice International Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday. This year's lineup, which for the first time expands to include films from outside Europe, has a decidedly multicultural, global integration theme. Three of the 12 films in the official selection are American-themed co-productions, two of which are set in New York. Iranian director Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart follows a night in the life of a Pakistani immigrant on the streets of Manhattan. Serbian director Vladan Nikolic's romantic thriller Love is a low-budget exploration of love from the points of view of numerous characters from various parts of the world.

The 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, announced films in four competitive categories Wednesday. The festival, which runs April 19-May 1 in Lower Manhattan, will feature fictional films and documentaries in two categories, dubbed NY, NY Narrative Features and NY, NY Documentary Features. The fictional features, which range from dramas focusing on the effects of 9/11 to slapstick comedy and suburban tales, include: Adam & Steve, directed by Craig Chester; Alchemy, Evan Oppenheimer; Bittersweet Place, Alexandra Brodsky; Conventioneers, Mora Stephens; The F Word, Jed Weintrob; Four Lane Highway, Dylan McCormick; Great New Wonderful, Danny Leiner; Laura Smiles, Jason Ruscio; Life on the Ledge, Lewis Helfer; Love, Vladan Nikolic; Puzzlehead, James Bai; The Reception, John G. Young; Red Doors, Georgia Lee; Rockaway, Mark Street; Satellite, Jeff Winner; and Slingshot, Jay Alaimo.