Edo Maajka - Sevdah o Rodama

Infobox Film
name = Edo Maajka - Sevdah o Rodama


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director = Silvija Mirošničenka
ass. director = Nikolina Kovačić
producer = Hrvoje Habeković
Director of photograpghy = Ivan Kovač, Damijan Petrović
narrator = Edo Maajka, Silvana Armenulić
starring = Edo Maajka
music = Edo Maajka
Chief editor = Nana Šojlev
editing = Hrvoje Mršić, Nenad Vuković,
tone recorder = Zvonimir Poljak
tone director = Siniša Tvorić
premiered = 27.7.2007 Motovun Film Festiva
distributor = HTV documentary program
released = 2007
runtime = 52 minutes
country = Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia
language = Bosnian, Croatian
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gross =
preceded_by = Trajno Nastanjeni Stranac
followed_by =
website = www.edomaajka.com

Edo Maajka - Sevdah o Rodama is a 2007 documentary about Bosnian rapper Edo Maajka.

About

The documentary follows Edo Maajka from his birthplace Brčko to Novi Pazar, where he is having the first hip hop concert ever held there in that region of Sandzak. Along the way Edo talks about his childhood, the war, and how he got involved in hip hop. When and how he met his best friends Frenkie and the other Fmjam crew. Edo talks about being part of Defence and later the hip hop crew Disciplinska Komisija.

This was the first Croatian and Bosnian documentary about the hip hop genre.The documentary won DORF by beating 17 other docuemntaries from: Britain, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.

Premier and showings

The documentary premiered in the "Motovun Film Festival" in 2007. It was shown in "ZagrebDoxu" in 2008 and also in the cinema SC in the yearly "Days of Croatian Movies". It was also shown in the Skoplje Film Festival.It was shown 25.4 to 28.4 2008 in the Chicago Festival of Bosnian Films, which was organized by Edgewater Film Society with the help of International Film and Media Studies Program at Loyola Univerzitetu Chicago. On 22 February 2008 and 23 February 2008 it was shown at the KIC cinema in Zagreb.

It premiered on television, on HTR 1, on October 28 2007.

Awards

*2007 - People's choice - 5th Liburnija Film Festival
*2008 - Documentary Festival (DORF) - Best documentary

External links

*Motovun Film Festival [http://www.motovunfilmfestival.com/index.php?page=fpfull&nid=2627&sub=4&lang=hr]
*DORF [http://www.dorf-vk.com/schedule.htm]
*Chicago festival of Bosnian Films [http://www.chicagobhfilm.org/index.html]
*Skopje film Festival [http://www.skopjefilmfestival.com.mk/]
*List of Showings [http://www.film-mag.net/content.php?review.3533]