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 THIS TIME WE CAN'T SAY WE DIDN'T KNOW (3 minutes) Croatia/Sudan Director/Producer: Slaven Zimbrek Description: Winner of the Croatian national FIPRESCI award "Oktavijan," This Time We Can't Say We Didn't Know combines the archived footage and still images of the Holocaust, Rwanda and Darfur genocides (courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the UNHCR) with testimonies of the Holocaust survivors (courtesy of the Shoah Visual History Foundation) to establish a parallel between the ongoing crisis in Darfur and the Holocaust. However, as the film's title points out, ignorance cannot be used as an excuse for not helping out because "this time we can't say (that) we didn't know." The film was jointly produced by the Jewish Community of Zagreb and Zimbra Film to increase public awareness in Croatia about the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Biography: Slaven Zimbrek is an independent filmmaker. Prior to becoming a filmmaker in 2004, he worked eight years as a Wall Street banker and five years as a telecom engineer. Slaven studied filmmaking at New York Film Academy and the NYU School of Professional Studies and Continued Education. His short fiction films Breathless-A Wall Street Version and Finish Line, and documentary Stefica won several awards at short-film festivals in Europe. Slaven has acted in other short films, most notably in Jai Mitchell's award-winning Botoxia and The Apple, and John Lord's Paper Tigers. His documentary film No Place for You at This Workplace, about discrimination of marginalized groups in Croatian's workplace, was screened at UNAFF 2007. Contact Information: Slaven Zimbrek Boskoviceva 15 11000 Zagreb Croatia E-mail: zimbra@mac.com |
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