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Vladan Nikolic
Vladan Nikolic is a filmmaker from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, who now lives in New York City. Before coming to New York, he worked as a director for the first independent TV network in Yugoslavia. Nikolic has worked as writer, director and editor on feature films, documentaries, commercials and music videos. His awards include the TV Sarajevo Award and Zeta Film Award for Best Screenplay, Eastman Kodak Award for his short film Serendipity, Telluride Indiefest best film Award for his feature Burn, and others. Mr. Nikolic also teaches Film Directing, Production and Digital Filmmaking at The New School, Film Video Arts, and at NYU.
The idea that started it all was to write a story told from different points of view, with characters who are extremely different in terms of their origins and their role in society. From here I tried to incorporate a number of other elements, like the feeling of being trapped, an emotion felt by all of the characters, in one way or another. The main character, who also defines all the others, was always Vanya and his isolation from the outside world; his story obviously closely reflects what has happened in the former Yugoslavia. The setting, New York, was very important to me because I truly believe that this city reflects “all of humanity in a single drop”, to quote the Russian poet Evgenij Evtušenko.
(Vladan Nikolic)
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