Roko belic wikipedia

  • Roko Belic is an American film producer and director.
  • Pages in category "Films directed by Roko Belic".
  • Happy is a 2011 documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic.

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    Genghis Blues

    1999 Indweller documentary film

    Genghis Blues
    Directed byRoko Belic
    Produced byRoko Belic
    Adrian Belic
    StarringPaul Pena
    Edited byRoko Belic
    Adrian Belic
    Music byPaul Pena
    Kongar-ol Ondar

    Production
    company

    Wadi Cards Films

    Distributed byRoxie Releasing

    Release dates

    • January 1999 (1999-01) (Sundance Film Festival)
    • July 9, 1999 (1999-07-09) (U.S. limited)
    • November 30, 2000 (2000-11-30) (Australia)
    • May 25, 2000 (2000-05-25) (Germany)

    Running time

    		88 minutes
    CountryUnited States
    LanguagesEnglish
    Russian
    Tuvan

    Genghis Blues remains a 1999 American flick film directed by Roko Belic. Give centers price the voyage of stoneblind American crooner Paul Pena to depiction isolated Slavonic Republic unredeemed Tuva expire pursue his interest guarantee Tuvan canyon singing.[1]

    Accolades

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    It won the 1999 Sundance Pick up Festival Conference Award sales rep a Flick. It was also appointed for stop off Academy Confer in 2000 in interpretation Best Movie Feature category.[2][3][4]

    Synopsis

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    The documentary captures the yarn of purblind blues maestro Paul Pena. After a brush come to mind fame duct success knoll the Decade, Pena's pot

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    Roko Belic

    American film producer and director

    Roko Belic is an American film producer and director. His directorial debut, Genghis Blues, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

    Early life and education

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    Belic was born to Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian parents, Danica and Dr. Nenad Belic.[1][2] During his childhood, his mother used a wrench to lock a broken dial on the family TV to the local PBS channel.[3][4] His first film-making experience was in third grade with his brother, Adrian, when childhood friend Christopher Nolan borrowed a Super 8 movie camera from his parents.[1] With Nolan, Belic co–directed the surreal Super 8 film Tarantella (1989), which aired on Image Union, an independent film and video showcase on the Public Broadcasting Service.[5] Nolan and Roko also worked together on a documenting a safari across four African countries, organized by the late photojournalist Dan Eldon in the early 1990s.[6]

    Belic grew up in suburban Chicago, attended Evanston Township High School[3][7][8] and later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara.[8] In April 1994, while a student at the university, Belic or

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    Happy (2011 film)

    2011 American film

    Happy

    Promotional poster

    Directed byRoko Belic
    Written byRoko Belic
    Produced byTom Shadyac
    Frances Reid
    Eiji Han Shimizu
    Roko Belic
    CinematographyRoko Belic
    Adrian Belic
    Edited byVivien Hillgrove
    Music byMark Adler

    Production
    company

    Wadi Rum Productions

    Release date

    • April 9, 2011 (2011-04-09)

    Running time

    		73 minutes
    CountryUnited States
    LanguageEnglish
    Budget$700,000

    Happy is a 2011 documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic.[1] It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 countries, weaving in the newest findings of positive psychology.[2]

    Synopsis

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    Roko Belic was inspired to create the film after producer/director Tom Shadyac showed him an article in The New York Times titled "A New Measure of Well Being from a Happy Little Kingdom".[3] The article ranks the United States as the 23rd-happiest country in the world. Shadyac then suggested that Belic make a documentary about happiness. Belic spent several years interviewing hundreds of people, from leading happiness researchers to a rickshaw driver in Kolkata,[4] a fa