Festival In Focus: How Balkan Telecoms Are Boosting Local TV Productions
deadline.comIn the three years since the Sarajevo Film Festival launched its Heart of Sarajevo TV awards, much has changed in the Balkan region’s television sector thanks to investment from regional telecom companies in the local production space.
Companies such as Bosnia and Herzegovina’s BH Telecom, the main sponsor of this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival, and Telecom Serbia have been flexing their financial muscle in a space that undercapitalized public broadcasters and once confident-but-now-nervous global streamers are yet to enter.
BH Telecom is behind three local productions up for nominations at the festival’s TV awards this year: Bosnian crime drama The Hollow, which was co-created by Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović; and comedies Tender and On the Edge of Reason directed by Srdan Vuletić and Elmir Jukić respectively.
Meanwhile, Telecom Serbia has backed five drama nominees: The Fall, based on the true story of a young and popular actor who commits a double homicide; crime thrillers Clan 2 and Clan 3; soccer drama Golden Boy; and The Well.
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