RS: When I was asked by Vibeke to participate in this interesting talking platform of DOX, I thought, the best partner to discuss the regional documentary scene would be you Martichka, not only because we work together now at the Docu Rough Cut Boutique at Sarajevo Film Festival and at the Balkan Documentary Centre’s project – Discoveries but also because you started as a documentary producer from zero and proved that to be a producer devoted to only creative docs projects is possible, even on the Balkans. Your vision showed us that it does make sense even in the countries like our, where broadcasters don’t support or show many (or any) creative documentaries, to insist on becoming a creative producer.

Balkan documentaries are increasingly finding their way to the major doc festivals and international TV, and they are more creative, inspiring and engaging than ever.

So far, India has had only one major festival of docs and shorts – the Mumbai International Film Festival, which started as a biannual event in 1990. Starting this spring, however, the southern State of Kerala inaugurated an annual event featuring docs and shorts: the Second International Video Festival, which was held in the capital of Tiruvananthapuram. RADA SESIC was there.

Filmmakers from the Balkan countries have been overtaken by their foreign colleagues in documenting the Balkan reality.