Photo: PromoThe details of the selection of the film for our Oscar were published, two days after the decision. The explanation why the movie "What my thoughts are fighting" is the best is not written
Two days ago, the Film Center of Serbia announced that the Serbian candidate for the Oscar award outside the English-speaking world is the film "My Thoughts Fight" directed by Milorad Milinković, but without any explanation why that particular film was chosen and not another.
Neither the ratio of votes nor who voted was published, so the names of the members of the Commission were not published, nor according to what criteria they were chosen.
The public believed that the wrong film was chosen again, that there were at least two other candidates among the candidates that had already won the favor of foreign festivals ("Guardians of the Formula" and "Lost country"), as well as that the anonymous commission led them to think that Milinković's film was influenced by his direction of SNS spots.
Ivan Karl, acting director of the Film Center of Serbia, did not want to comment on the statements of Srdan Golubović and other directors about the chosen candidate.
"An explanation has just been published on the FCS website, everything is written there, including why we waited two days with an explanation," Karl told the "Vremena" portal.
Here is the first part with the aforementioned explanation:
"Aware that their (commission members') decision, whatever it is, will make seven of the eight candidates dissatisfied, they asked not to immediately go public with the names, so as not to enter another round of invitations and re-examinations from one round of lobbying ."
It can be concluded that they thought that a break of two days would be enough, or that two days would be enough for the public to forget about calls and interrogations.
The commission was composed of: the president was Miroslav Momčilović, screenwriter and director, Radmila Živković actress, Sonja Damjanović actress, Dragan Marinković director, Miloš Škundrić director, Bogdan Petković producer, and Borislav Anđelić film critic.
They chose between eight candidates: "Heroes of Halliard", "Guardians of the Formula", "Have You Seen This Woman", "What My Thoughts Struggle", "Lost Country", "Storm", "Indigo Crystal" and "Mouth Full of Earth".
There were two rounds of voting, and "Fighting My Thoughts" beat "Guardians of the Formula" by one point.
In the first round, they were equal, and apart from these two films, the members of the Commission also voted for "Lost Country" and "Indigo Crystal" in the first round.
The FCS statement reads:
"Unfortunately, and it's not the first time, the selection of the Serbian candidate for the "Oscar" award for films outside the English-speaking area has turned into a burning call to measure local influence and importance in domestic film circles. The media bid on submitted films, online polls were made to see who would pass, PR teams did their job to the max.
Long before the commission for the selection of our candidate will sit and vote, even before it started watching the films, all of the above took off seriously, and with it every form of lobbying, promotion and self-promotion.
The commission was not secret, it was appointed according to established procedures and deadlines, and it worked according to the current regulations confirmed by the American Film Academy. Although the names of the commission were not published, it will turn out that all the pretenders found out.
In such a climate of public and secret recommendations, invitations and lobbying, the seven-member commission worked as if it were awarding the Oscars here in Belgrade, and that everything after that is just a mere formality, as well as that the remaining ninety countries that also send their films do not exist and that our winner is one hundred percent and the winner in Los Angeles.
Voting for the Serbian candidate was done without any problems, it was individual and secret, and then the points were counted in front of all the members of the commission, who all signed the decision. However, aware that their decision, whatever it is, will make seven of the eight candidates dissatisfied, they asked not to immediately go public with the names, so as not to go from one round of lobbying to another round of invitations and re-examinations.
That's why we published only the most important information two days ago, and now after the assumed reactions."
The explanation why the movie "What my thoughts are fighting" is the best is not written.
On the website of the Film Center of Serbia, it is possible to read that the film "What my thoughts are fighting for" was in fourth place in terms of viewership last week, the first since its premiere.
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