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| Page 1 - Hon. Gov. Bill Richardson, Teresa Neptune, Kathryn Brink, Alton Walpole Page 2 - CD Douglas Wright, CD Toni Cobb Brock, CD Shari Rhodes, Vince Pulli, Brett Brock Page 3 - Alan Rosenberg, Julie Crane, Mel MacKaron, Victor Izay, Ed Pennnybacker Page 4 - Vanja Aljinovic Page 5 - Wes Studi Page 6 - Alan Arkin & Sir Ben Kingsley Page 7 - Lou Diamond Phillips |
| Santa Fe's very own Vanja Aljinovic, a long-time New Mexico resident, hears the news that "No Man's Land" has won the Academy Award for "Best Foreign Film." Vanja was the First Assistant Director on the production and was attending the Academy Awards party sponsored by The College of Santa Fe's Moving Image Arts Department. The film was written and directed by Danis Tanovic and is released in the United States by United Artists. Filmed in Ljubljana - Slovenia, the story is about the personal interactions that take place primarily in a trench in "no man's land" between the two warring sides of Bosnia and Herzegovina during their confrontation in 1993.
"My biggest dilemma became finding ways to shoot around the sun. All the action takes place in one day, so the problem of how best to use the midday time - when the sun made it impossible to shoot exteriors - became my ongoing challenge. That, and the fact we literally had lightening strike us one day! I am very proud to say we finished on time and on budget. I'm really thrilled this wonderful and poignant film was recognized by the Academy." Vanja Aljinovic ~ 2002 |
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| Vanja Aljinovic |
| Photo and Text courtesy of the New Mexico Film Office |