Goran Dukić Explained

Goran Dukić
Birth Place:Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Yearsactive:1991–present
Occupation:Film director, screenwriter, actor, film editor

Goran Dukić is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor best known for writing and directing the 2006 film .

Early life

Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Dukić says that as a child he enjoyed telling stories and was keen to express himself visually, so—not finding painting, writing or theater "dynamic" enough—he became interested in filmmaking and made many amateur short films as a teenager.[1] His 1991 short film Mirta uči statistiku ("Myrtha Learns Statistics") and his 1992 short documentary Posebni gosti ("Special Guests") screened at Croatian film festivals, the latter winning the Oktavijan Award for Best Short Film from the Days of Croatian Film.[2] He attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in film, later completing a Master of Fine Arts at the American Film Institute Conservatory in Hollywood, California in the United States.[3]

Career

After relocating to Los Angeles, California, Dukić directed the 2001 short How I Saved the World, and directed and edited the 2002 short The Yellow House. He edited and starred as Brian Riley in the 2004 film Dead Doll.

Dukić wrote and directed the 2006 film , based on Etgar Keret's short story "Kneller’s Happy Campers"[4] and about a world in the afterlife reserved for suicide victims.[5] He had contacted Keret immediately after reading the novella and asked for the rights to the story, but Dukić was turned away with Keret telling him that he had other film-adaptation offers from French and German filmmakers and would only give away the rights if he was shown a complete screenplay that he felt did the story justice.[6] Keret was impressed by Dukić's screenplay and gave him permission to make the film.[6] Dukić's main storyline was the same as the original story, but he added many of his own details to the film, such as the characters not being able to smile in the afterworld and the absence of stars in the night sky.[7] [8] In writing the script and directing the film, Dukić says his goal was to "preserve [the novella's] essence but yet to add as much of my own sensibility and vision to make it a personal movie".[1]

Dukić's next project was a murder mystery film involving identity crisis, based on his first screenplay, "I Could Be You".[1] He lists his creative inspirations as film directors Luis Buñuel, Robert Altman, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Dušan Makavejev, Jim Jarmusch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Akira Kurosawa, Robert Aldrich, Andrei Tarkovsky, Samuel Fuller, Wim Wenders and David Lynch.[1]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Damages' "Wristcutters" Director Goran Dukic . 2008-05-17 . October 16, 2007 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20080313163944/http://www.indiewire.com/people/2007/10/indiewire_inter_117.html . March 13, 2008 . dead .
  2. Web site: Goran Dukić . 2008-05-17 . Film.HR . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070612095730/http://www.film.hr/bazafilm_ljud.php?PHPSESSID=5e5546487a0666c93257a9f1255ccc10&ljud_id=1488 . 2007-06-12 .
  3. Web site: Festival's Guests: Goran Dukic and Mikal Lazarev, Creators of Wristcutters: A Love Story. 2008-05-17. 28 September 2007. ICON convention. https://web.archive.org/web/20080611145020/http://www.icon.org.il/promo07/eng/?page_id=98. 11 June 2008. dead.
  4. News: Life's a Little Bit Worse Now That They're Dead . A. O. Scott . 19 October 2007 . 29 July 2013 . The New York Times.
  5. Emergent: Goran Dukic Rolls The Die . 2008-05-17 . Kate Kiefer . 22 October 2007 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509004246/http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/5526/feature/film/emergent_goran_dukic . 9 May 2008 .
  6. Web site: Wristcutter Goran Dukic. 2008-05-17. Emanuel Levy. Emanuel Levy. EmanuelLevy.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173731/http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=7325. 2016-03-03. dead.
  7. Web site: Goran Dukic. 7 November 2007. 2008-05-17. The Film Chair.
  8. News: An indie film that's a cut above . 2008-05-17 . Chandler Ford . 18 October 2007 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080608050603/http://media.www.dailytrojan.com/media/storage/paper679/news/2007/10/18/Lifestyle/An.Indie.Film.Thats.A.Cut.Above-3040081.shtml . 8 June 2008 .

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