Jasmin Dizdarevic Net Worth
Jasmin Dizdarevic Net Worth is
$800,000
Jasmin Dizdarevic Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Jasmin Dizdar (born 8 June 1961 in Zenica) is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival. Jasmin Dizdar's film Beautiful People is number 71 in The New York Times Guide to The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. | Date Of Birth | June 8, 1961 |
| Place Of Birth | Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Height | 6' 5" (1.96 m) |
| Profession | Director, Writer |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sardonic humor |
| 2 | Combines realism with a playful imagination |
| 3 | Transforms outsiders into unlikely heroes. |
| 4 | Striking Eisenstein-like montage |
| 5 | Observational realism |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | I like it when the ordinary and the extraordinary go hand in hand. For me, laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin. |
| 2 | I believe in imaginative literature and imaginative art because imaginative work can tell you far more than any factual work can do. Whether it is literature, theatre or cinema what it always boils down to is an engrossing story that weaves reality and fantasy into far bigger picture. |
| 3 | [on his beginnings] I used to write stories at school and the teacher would read them out in class. One day she put them in for a big competition and I won. I did a little book of cartoons in my room and then I was encouraged to make a film of it. The great thing about communism was that every town had to have a film club even if it was considered an empty good-for-nothing place. That's where me and my older friend began making our films. First an animation, then a documentary, and so on. My father, who has a notoriously dry sense of humor, refused to be impressed by all the prizes we won and told me I should be out getting into trouble on the street rather than living in a fantasy world in my room. |
| 4 | Everyone says things like, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky were an influence, or I saw Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941) and I knew I had to be a filmmaker,' or 'My mum is an actress, and I grew up in that kind of environment.' (...) I said, 'Look. All I need is that camera and that footage.' |
| 5 | Playing with meanings is very 60s, I like that. Toying around is easier for an outsider like me. |
| 6 | When you enter a new culture, you're a bit like a teenager, you start learning again. You're extremely sensitive, and you absorb everything. |
| 7 | Anyone who wants to make a film should learn their craft through the Russian silent classics, through Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei M. Eisenstein. This is where you learn how to capture ambiance and lyricism. Where you learn how to construct a film at the cutting table. |
| 8 | [on Beautiful People (1999)] I wanted to make a film about people who have so much to say and they don't know how to do it. I love to make stories and films where you actually combine things in a way that you usually wouldn't, that you see things slightly from a different perspective. |
| 9 | [about late British folk singer Kirsty MacColl] This is a low-budget film, and we didn't have money to pay her. But she said she'd really always wanted to sing that song "Sail Away" by Randy Newman, so she just came and set up the microphones and sung it for us. |
| 10 | I much prefer to find those characteristics that seem to resist culture, history and education. In other words the common denominators, which unites us rather than separates us as human beings. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Educated at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic. |
| 2 | Jasmin Dizdar received the highest honor from Pulitzer Prize winning American film critic Roger Ebert who selected Beautiful People (1999) in his The New York Times Guide to The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made. |
| 3 | Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport paid official visit to Cannes Film Festival world premier of Beautiful People (1999) where the film received a ten minute standing ovation. |
| 4 | Jasmin Dizdar's birth surname is Dizdarevic. His grandfather was killed during Nazis' "Seventh Enemy Offensive" in Bosnia in 1944. After the Second World War an orphanage changed his fathers original surname 'Dizdar' to 'Dizdarevic' as it was usual custom with Yugoslavian orphaned children. When Yugoslavia collapsed in early 1990s he changed Dizdarevic back to Dizdar. |
| 5 | He directed the Holocaust film Chosen (2016) in memory of his grandfather who was executed by Nazis during Second World War. |
| 6 | As a teenager he was an actor in Zenica's Old National Theatre and played in a Bosnian theatre play "Hanka" based on the novel by Isak Samokovlija. |
| 7 | Lives in UK since 1989. UK citizen since 1993. |
| 8 | In 2000, the Italian distributor of Beautiful People (1999), aware that one of Jasmin's heroes is Federico Fellini, took him to Fellini's favorite restaurant in Rome, sat him on Fellini's favorite chair and served him with Fellini's favorite wine and dish. The secret was revealed after Jasmin finished his dinner. |
| 9 | He was awarded Un Certain Regard top price at Cannes Film Festival by renowned French actor, Lambert Wilson. |
| 10 | He directed award-winning films in three different political regimes: liberal communism, totalitarian communism and democratic capitalism. |
| 11 | Jasmin Dizdar grew up in town of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he joined a local film club. During his membership years, he helped to transform the club into a creative hot spot and one of the best film clubs in former Yugoslavia. |
| 12 | The cult Czech film director Frantisek Vlácil played lead in Dizdar's After Silence (1987) . |
| 13 | Although Dizdar is an atheist, biblical symbolism through implication is always present in his films. 'Jesus Christ' appears as a film student in his short musical Crucifixions (1986), and in Les Européens (2006) the Italian woman asks Madonna for promised miracle, which soon falls from the sky. In Beautiful People (1999), an English football fan falls from the sky into a Bosnian war-zone, and resurrects a fatally injured child, whilst in London, a female refugee from Bosnia cradles her newborn baby, reminiscent of the infamous scene of the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus. |
| 14 | Dizdar's ensemble cast Czech comedy Our Sweet Homeland (1988) was a prelude to Dizdar's ensemble cast English language feature film Beautiful People (1999) . |
| 15 | His daughter Lily Dizdar, is also an award-winning filmmaker. He gave his daughter the name of his primary school literature teacher Ljilja (English version; Lily) who encouraged him to write, which led to winning his first award for best short story titled "History Hour". |
| 16 | He is one of three living Bosnian born film directors who won top awards at Cannes Film Festival. |
| 17 | His imaginative and idiosyncratic dry wit is compared to Joel Coen/ Ethan Coen, Charlie Kaufman and Paolo Sorrentino. |
| 18 | Oscar winning Czech film director Elmar Klos (The Shop on Main Street (1965) ) rewarded Dizdar for his graduation film After Silence (1987) with the Best Director award. |
| 19 | He directed films in former Yugoslavia, former Czechoslovakia, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Tunisia, Romania and United States of America. |
| 20 | Although he graduated FAMU with top marks his teachers refused to give him highest university honor "Red Diploma" because of consistent anti-communist subversive messages and tackling of social taboos in his student films. |
| 21 | He was approached to direct films: Dirty Pretty Things (2002) , "The Restraint Of Beasts", "Carry Me Down", May 33rd (2004) . |
| 22 | He worked extensively on many film projects including: "Yuri Gagarin", As If I Am Not There (2010) , "Executioner", "Freedom Love", "Food Taster", "The Last Man". |
| 23 | He worked as an assistant director for Sarajevo Television during his film studies. |
| 24 | Jasmin Dizdar's film Beautiful People (1999) is number 71 in The New York Times' "The Best 1000 films of all times". |
| 25 | He co-wrote the song "Let's Talk About Life" for Beautiful People (1999) and was one of the performers on the song "She's Beautiful". |
| 26 | Jasmin Dizdar is the first and only Bosnian filmmaker not from Sarajevo to win at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| 27 | Jasmin Dizdar is the first Bosnian-born filmmaker to win major award at the Cannes Film Festival after the Bosnian war. |
Director
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chosen | 2016/II | ||
| Les Européens | 2006 | segment "Mamma Roma" | |
| Beautiful People | 1999 | ||
| Our Sweet Homeland | 1988 | TV Short | |
| After Silence | 1987 | Short | |
| Heroes Sleep Quietly | 1986 | Short | |
| Crucifixions | 1986 | Short |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful People | 1999 | written by | |
| Our Sweet Homeland | 1988 | TV Short written by | |
| After Silence | 1987 | Short writer | |
| Heroes Sleep Quietly | 1986 | Short written by | |
| Crucifixions | 1986 | Short written by | |
| Les Européens | 2006 | segment "Mamma Roma" |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les Européens | 2006 | Humans rights protestor |
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful People | 1999 | original song: performed by: singer |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| As If I Am Not There | 2010 | thanks |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Gold Gryphon | Saint-Petersburg International Festival of Festivals | Beautiful People (1999) | |
| 1999 | Un Certain Regard Award | Cannes Film Festival | Beautiful People (1999) | |
| 1999 | Award of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention | Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema | Beautiful People (1999) | |
| 1999 | Award of Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention | Karlovy Vary International Film Festival | Beautiful People (1999) |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Robert | Robert Festival | Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film) | Beautiful People (1999) |
| 1999 | Douglas Hickox Award | British Independent Film Awards | Beautiful People (1999) | |
| 1999 | British Independent Film Award | British Independent Film Awards | Best Screenplay | Beautiful People (1999) |
| 1999 | Grand Prix Asturias | Gijón International Film Festival | Best Feature | Beautiful People (1999) |
Known for movies
Chosen (2016)
as Director
Les Européens (2006)
as Director
Beautiful People (1999)
as Director
After Silence (1987)
as Director