Panel discussions will bring us closer to questions about the cinema industry's future in the context of new media and technology, while also providing insight into a variety of other areas of the seventh art. The focus for this year's Industry program is "entrepreneurship in the film industry."

Panel and series screening: Oreol Team and "Iskušenije"

Moderator: Pavla Banjac

Participants: Đorđe Ilić, Sanja Šegrt, Gvozden Bosić

The Oreol team is a non-profit organization located in Novi Sad that has been working in a unique direction since 2019, shooting films and series without a budget. The organization brings together artists from a variety of areas who volunteer in the film and entertainment industries. Iskušenije is their mini-series, which, together with two feature films, best exemplifies the Oreol team's enthusiasm. 

The Oreol team members are Đorđe Ilić, an assistant director and actor; Sanja Šegrt, an actress, make-up artist, and assistant director; and Gvozden Bosić, a director, screenwriter, actor, and set designer.

Panel: Entrepreneurship in the film industry

Moderator: Pavla Banjac 

Participant: Anđela Prnjak / Rent a local; CCC

Anđela Prnjak is the founder and owner of the production service Croatian Creative Films and the casting agency Croatian Creative Casting. At the Novi Sad Film Festival, she will talk about numerous projects she has realized, including the documentary series Secrets of Neanderthals, TV-serija Celebrity Race Across The World, film Expedito Cupido, reklame za Playstation, i Glo, kao i igrani filmovi Nakon ljeta, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Koke, Južina , and many others.

Panel: Entrepreneurship in the film industry – VFX Evolution

Moderator: Ivica Milarić

Participants: Veroljub Naumović, Bojan Banjanin, Pavle Pavlović, Krsto Jaram

Special effects (VFX) have been an important part of cinematography since the beginning. Today, thanks to the rapid development of computer systems and IT technologies, generating spectacular effects and even entire digital worlds has never been easier or more accessible. Simultaneously, practical effects like actors' prosthetic masks, special set components, and similar elements are in higher demand than they were a decade or two ago. The VFX Evolution panel examines the full spectrum of special effects in today's world, from totally physical to entirely digital. It will attempt to illuminate as many scenes as possible of the processes that generate and will create cinematic magic by presenting the current status as well as the education in this domain that is now taking place.

Panel Discussion: Talking about Game Cinematics

Moderator: Ivica Milarić

Participants: Tijana Prodanović, Leon Aksin, Đorđe Ilić

Video games, as a genre of art, allow their designers to express themselves in an infinite variety of ways. As a result, such video games span a nearly limitless range of topics and concepts. Within such a space, game cinematics, specifically the cinematic segments of video games, provide enough opportunity for artistic creativity and expression. The Game Cinematics panel and selection are here to celebrate that freedom, look into the future of making cinematic works for video games, and present some of the best and most imaginative game cinematic works from the country and area, as well as throughout the world.

Panel: Presentation of the Creative Europe Desks

Moderator: Pavla Banjac

Panelists: Una Domazetoski (Serbia), Susan Costa Pereira (Portugal), Alessandro Gropplero (Italy)

Susana Costa Pereira se od 2019. godine nalazi na poziciji izvršne koordinatorke Susan Costa Pereira has been the executive coordinator of the Creative Desk of Portugal's Media sector since 2019 and is now working on the Creative Innovation Lab project. Following an apprenticeship in communication sciences at the University of Nova de Lisboa, she worked in culture and marketing for a variety of agencies and organizations, including IGAC, MasterLink, Media Capital Group, Institute for Film, Audio-Visual, and Multimedia Content, Mosaic, the Ministry of Culture's office, IPSIS, Imago, and others. 

Una Domazetoski graduated in theater studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Patras (Greece), while in her native Belgrade she is enrolling in postgraduate studies at FDU in the field of culture and media management. Since 2005, she has been working as a coordinator for international relations at the Film Center of Serbia. Since January 2002, he has been managing the MEDIA desk of Serbia (Creative Europe). Since October 2023, she has been the head of the Department for International Cooperation at the Film Center of Serbia.

Work in Progress presentations

Work in Progress provides a unique opportunity for young filmmakers to complete their film project with the assistance of financial resources and begin their film journey with a strong wind behind them. This year's Novi Sad Film Festival offers a prize of 10,000 euros provided by the Coca-Cola company.

Panel: Presentation of the international festival Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia)

Učesnici: Edvinas Pukšta, Eliisa Pass

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is one of the Baltics' and Europe's most important film festivals. It is held annually in Estonia's capital, Tallinn, usually in November and December. The festival is recognized for its broad range of films, which include everything from indie and art films to mainstream titles. The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival showcases and supports Estonian and Baltic films, as well as new and innovative works from around the world.

Panel: Presentation of the national festival - Martovski festival 

Moderator: Pavla Banjac

Panelist: Dejan Dabić, artistic director of the Martovski festival

Martovaski festival is a well-known Belgrade documentary and short film festival, as well as one of Europe's oldest, with a 70-year history. This festival debuted as part of the Yugoslav Film Festival in the Pula Arena in 1954, followed by its first edition in Belgrade in 1960. Since its inception, the festival has concentrated on promoting documentary, short-feature, animation, and experimental films, and has served as a gathering place for local and international professionals, students, schools, academies, and all cinema enthusiasts. 

Animation Workshop for Young People: Get Animated!

The Novi Sad Film Festival also offers a program for the youngest fans of the seventh art. This year, the festival will introduce its youngest audience to the world of animation, which forms the basis of their favorite works, and provide fundamental knowledge about the industry and the filmmaking process. The workshops are conducted in collaboration with the DOM Animation Studio from Sremski Karlovci, the Children’s Cultural Center Novi Sad, and the Film and Creative Studio Vanima from Croatia, with support from the European Union. The workshops are led by Jakov Popov.

Participants will have the opportunity to create their own animated clips and films using their phones as a creative tool. They will go through all the necessary steps, from basic technical principles, scriptwriting, storyboarding, character development, sound, editing, to distribution, to produce their first animation. 

Book Promotion
Nađa Petrović: Jellyfish Live Forever Until They Get Caught

Sara has a strange encounter with someone from her past who carries a fish in a backpack; the fish comes to life and bites her hand. The next morning, Sara wakes up with pain in her hand and realizes that the boundary between memory, reality, and fiction has disappeared. Sara tries to continue with her life normally, but her memories, which carry unresolved traumas from the past, tighten around her more and more, pulling her into a vortex that moves between wakefulness and dreams. The novel was published in October 2023 and is already in its sixth edition. It was shortlisted for the Nin Award, the Winner of Belgrade Award, and the Vladan Desnica Award. It has won the Grozdana Olujić Award for Best Book of 2023.

Film and Exhibition
The Power of Love: Vlastimir Gavrik

Vlastimir Gavrik (1928 – 2008) was a film and television set designer who also worked on the design of musical spectacles, music videos, exhibitions, and more. In 1972, along with a group of set designers for the film Nicholas and Alexandra, he won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He began his career as a set designer at Zvezda Film in Belgrade and honed his skills in Paris, collaborating with Léon Barsacq, one of the world’s most renowned film set designers. In addition to Paris, he also specialized in Germany. He created set designs for over 84 domestic and foreign feature films and 12 TV series, with his first solo set design realized in 1952 for the domestic film Far from the Sun, based on a script by Dobrica Ćosić. At the age of 24, he became the youngest set designer in the Yugoslav film industry. Among the highlights of his career are the films and series The Black Bomber, The Dervish and Death, Master and Margarita, Escape from Sobibor, Happy People, and Family Treasure. He was honored with numerous awards, including the Order of Merit for the People with Silver Rays (1980), various ULUPUDS awards, a diploma from the Yugoslav Film Archive, and he was also nominated for an American Emmy Award for television arts. The author of the exhibition and film about her father, Vlastimir, Aleksandra Gavrik, is a film and TV producer with a career spanning over three decades. She is the only person in Serbia and the region to have produced the Mathematical Exhibition of Dr. Slavik Jablana and the mathematical sculptures of Rinus Rolleofs. She founded and heads the Gavrik Production Agency.

Izložba plakata filmskih selekcija NSFF

Kulturni centar Novog Sada biće mesto Izložbe plakata filmskih selekcija Novi Sad film festivala, po motivima lego likova, autora Danila i Mateja Bojata.