St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary - News Releases News Release Belgrade Filmmaker Presents Films on Kosovo to the SVS Community

Crestwood, NY—Since 1998, Belgrade filmmaker Ninoslav Randjelovic has been documenting the crisis in Kosovo. An alumnus of St Vladimir's Seminary ('87), Mr Randjelovic made a special visit to his alma mater on Sunday evening, March 6, 2005, to present three of his short films to the SVS community and all who wished to attend.

In the last seven years, Mr Randjelovic has independently produced sixteen documentary films on Kosovo. "I have tried to document the violations of the most basic human rights of the Serbian and other non-Albanian ethnic groups living in Kosovo and Metohia," he said. "However, not only the safety conditions, but the lack of systematic and institutional support has made my work increasingly difficult."

Mr Randjelovic has taken his films all over the world in order to promote awareness of the situation in Kosovo and supplement what he feels has been an insufficient amount of coverage by the mainstream media. Last year he presented his films—including some rare footage of the March Pogrom—at academic institutions in Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Boston, and Washington D.C. More presentations are scheduled this year in Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Rome.

The three films Mr Randjelovic showed to the SVS community were:

• Kosovo, 1998-2003 (16 minutes)—compiled footage spanning these years shows the process of destruction and human rights abuse in Kosovo
• Autumn in No Man's Land (20 minutes)—covers the violence of March of last year and the slow process of rebuilding Orthodox churches and monasteries
• The Snowman in the Dark (20 minutes)—covers the most recent events in Kosovo (January, 2005) and new aspects of ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region