Darko Lungulov

Darko Lungulov, originally from Serbia, moved to New York City, where he graduated with BFA in film and video from CCNY. His debut feature, Here and There, won Tribeca 2009 Best NY Narrative Award and received critical acclaim from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and The New York Times, winning 20 awards at over 50 international festivals. Theatrically released in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, and Greece, the film was initially voted as Serbia's Oscar candidate but subsequently disqualified due to "too much English dialogue for the foreign-language category." FIPRESCI Serbia voted Darko for Best Director in 2009. It was one of the early Netflix-streamed films (2010 - 2012). Currently, it streams on the Amazon Prime platform. In 2010 Darko Lungulov was a Tribeca Festival jury member. His next film, a dark comedy, Monument to Michael Jackson (2014), had its World Premiere at Karlovy Vary IFF, with critical acclaim from Variety. It won The Best Eastern European Film Award at its US premiere at Santa Barbara IFF 2015, Grand Prix and The Best Actor Award at Nashville Film Festival, and Grand Prix at the Montenegro International Film Festival 2014. HBO Eastern Europe picked up the film. Darko co-wrote a Sundance 2016 official entry, A Good Wife, directed by Mirjana Karanovic. He directed two seasons of the TV series The Suspects for Serbian national television in 2016 and 2017. Darko was a director consultant on Mirjana Karanovic's second directorial effort, Mother Mara, filmed in October 2022. In March of 2023. the music documentary Yu Grupa - A Fleeting Dream, Darko's 7-year labor-of-love, had its national premiere. The story of a family and Yugoslavia told by following the 60+ year career of the rock band that outlived the country that was named by is an intimate portrait of a close-knit family and their struggles. It's told using unseen Super 8 home films and a wealth of footage from Yugoslav Film Archives, collapsing barriers between epic and intimate, past and present.