Dimitar Anakiev

Dimitar Anakiev, an independent filmmaker, writer and poet, was born in Belgrade in 1960. He completed High Medical School in Niš, Serbia in 1986 and worked seven years as a Medical Doctor. He resided in Slovenia beginning in 1987 but shortly thereafter and without warning found himself among the victims of administrative ethnic cleansing ("Erased"), the result of secret legislation enacted 26 February 1992 by the democratic Slovenian government one year after the disintegration of the state of Yugoslavia. For 10 years he was compelled to live without personal documents (such as passport or personal identification), rendering him an invisible prisoner of the Slovenian democracy. At this point he purchased a small video camera and began his film career, in an attempt to make himself and other marginal Balkan people visible. The success of his films (including the Slovenian national film award) has made it possible for him to continue filmmaking as a producer, director and teacher. His company, Dimitar Anakiev Films s.p.-DAF (now Anakiev Production, FDA) specializes in socially engaged films of the Balkans in the post-communist era. Anakiev is a founding member of the Slovenian Director Guild, and a member of the Slovenian Filmmaker Association.

Dimitar Anakiev at Fukuoka Airport in 2007. Photo: Richard Gilbert

Films

Amigo, 36 min, DV, KDZ Tolmin-AFC Beograd, 2003

Rubbed Out, 45 min, DV, Dimitar Anakiev Films, Tolmin, 2004

Happy New Year! (2005), 6’34’’ min, DAF & KRUG, Nis-Tolmin,2005

King of the Road, 7’, DAF, 2005, Tolmin

Ti si jedini gazda ove kuće, 15’, 35 mm, DAF, 2006, Tolmin

Trde rime, 9', Super-8 mm, DAF, Tolmin, 2006

Šta je mati biti, DV, 28',DAF, Radovljica, 2007

Srpski ekseri, DV, 50',DAF, Radovljica, 2007

Poslednji Žilnik, 61', DV, DAF-Film Fokus, Radovljica-Niš, 2007

Moj ljubi geto,47',DV, DAF, Radovljica, 2008

Tolminci, 43 min, DV, FDA, Radovljica,2008

Državljan A.T., 55 min, HD, FDA, Brusselles-Radovljica, 2010

Unpaid By Law, 28 min, HD, FDA, Radovljica, 2011

Normalno življenje, 86 min, HD, FDA, Radovljica, 2012

Film festivals

Belgrade 2003, Kaljuga-Moscow 2003, Sarajevo 2003, Kobarid 2003, Celje 2003, Ljubljana PI-FF (Politically Incorrect Film Festival) 2004, 2005, Ljubljana 7.SFS (Festival of Slovenian Film) 2004, IDF Amsterdam 2004, Ljubljana PI-FF, 2005, 8.FSF, Portorož, 2005, Golden Apricot, Ereven 2006, 9. FSF, Portorož 2006, Amakula 2006 Kampala, Uganda; Montpellier 2007, IDF Amsterdam 2007, DokMa 2007 Maribor, DokMa, Maribor, 2008, ZagrebDox 2008, 9. Mediterranean Film Festival Široki Brijeg (BIH), 2008, Vidovin, Tolmin, 2008, DokMa, Maribor, 2009, DOC EUROPA, Lisbon, 2009.

Film awards

Vesna National Award for Documentary Film, Celje, 2003

High Artistic Achievement, Golden Knight, Kaljuga-Moscow, 2003

Best Documentary, DokMa 2007, international competition, Maribor, 2007

Bronze Horseshoe 2008, Asterfest, Strumica, 2008

Poetry and essays

Anakiev is also an internationally renowned haiku poet, editor and essayist.^{[citation needed]} He began writing haiku in 1985, and is considered the “grandfather“ of many Balkan haiku projects such as Haiku novine (Haiku Newspapers, Serbia 1993), Prijatelj (Slovenia 1996) and Apokalips haiku edition (1996 Slovenia). He is co-founder of the World Haiku Association^[1] with Jim Kacian and Ban'ya Natsuishi. One of the best known haiku by Anakiev was broadcast on BBC London in August 2000:

     Spring evening.
     The wheel of a troop carrier
     crushes a lizard.

Selected books

Ptičija staza, 1995, Prosveta, Niš (in Serbian)

Pticha pateka, 1996, Matom, Sofia (in Bulgarian)

Lastovke, 1998, Ljubljana (in Slovenian)

At the Tombstone, 2003, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English)

Balcony, 2006, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English)

Kosovo Peony, 2008, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English)

Rustic, 2010, Red Moon Press, Winchester, VA (in English)

Literary awards

European Award: Medal of Franz Kafka, 1999, Prague

The Museum of Haiku Literature Award, 2000, Tokyo

Haiku Society of America Annual Merit Book Award, 2003

Shamrock Haiku Journal Readers' Choice Award, 2009, Dublin

Editor (periodicals)

Haiku Novine, 1993–present, Niš, Serbia

Prijatelj 1996-1998, Tolmin, Slovenia

Editor (books)

Knots: An Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku, 1999, Prijatelj, Slovenia (co-edited with Jim Kacian, English)

Pound of Silence, anthology of Slovenian haiku, 2005, Apokalipsa, Ljubljana

Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook editor of SouthEastern European Literature, 2000–2001

E-novine

Anakiev is also regular contributor of E-novine (E-news), regional news portal in Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Monenegrian.^[2]

Interviews

Dimitar Anakiev intervieved by Špela Raspotnik (“Kings of the Road” No.6/2006): [1]

Video interview with Dimitar Anakiev by Igor Mašera (Slovenian, 2008) [2]

Films online

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References

1. ^ World Haiku Association. "Who we are". http://www.worldhaiku.net/. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 
2. ^ E-novine (26). "Dimitar Anakiev". http://www.e-novine.com/author/dimitar-anakiev. Retrieved 24 March 2011. 

External links

1.http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/profile.aspx?id=91a0e366-51ca-47e1-bb20-79fd4980a547

2.http://www.e-novine.com/author/dimitar-anakiev

3.http://www.kwartalnik-pobocza.pl/pob27/srb/danakiev_srb.html

4.http://simplyhaiku.com/SHv3n2/features/Sasa_Vazic_intrvw.html

5.http://bashosroad.outlawpoetry.com/dimitar-anakiev-balkan-haiku/dimitar-anakiev/haiku/

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Name	Anakiev, Dimitar
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Date of birth	1960
Place of birth	Belgrade, Serbia
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