Jasmin Dizdar
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Jasmin Dizdar 8 June 1961 Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Residence | London, UK |
| Alma mater | Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, author |
Jasmin Dizdar (born 8 June 1961) is a British-Bosnian film director, screenwriter and author best known for his multi-award-winning feature film Beautiful People and his World War Two thriller Chosen starring Harvey Keitel. Jasmin Dizdar received the highest honor from Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic Roger Ebert who selected Beautiful People in his The New York Times Guide to The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. Jasmin Dizdar also published a book on cinema, which achieved a high volume of sales, with over 50,000 copies sold.
His distinctive filmmaking signature includes unflaggingly inventive uses of montage, sound and music where coincidences are often both funny and horrific, iconoclastic dry wit humor and imaginative rich storytelling. Dizdar’s kinetics awaken and reveal our fundamental need for love whilst drawing our attention to what separates us: language barriers, prejudice, dogmatism, and above all, a collective obtuseness and indifference towards one another.
Jasmin Dizdar was born and grew up in his Bosnian hometown of Zenica, where his gift for creative writing was spotted early on by primary school teacher of literature. With her guidance and encouragement, he sent his short story “History Hour” to a regional competition and won his first award for the best short story.
When he was 12, Dizdar’s love affair with movies had begun, and he soon became a prolific cinema-goer. There were four theaters in Zenica, and Dizdar used an intricate system to get into them for free: he made facsimiles of movie tickets by scavenging for stubs in rubbish bins, then collecting the other halves from patrons as they came out of theaters. Gluing torn bits together and re-using them as fake cinema tickets enabled him to see the same film several times for free, particularly multiple showings of such Westerns as Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once Upon a Time in the West. Because Dizdar was so tall for his age (he is now 6 foot 6), he managed to see Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango in Paris, despite its 18 rated certificate.
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