Petra Seliskar

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Biography

Petra Seliškar born in Ljubljana- Slovenia 1978, moved to Holland to study film directing and producing at the National Film Academy in Amsterdam and moved to UK to finish her MA studies in Screen Arts at Sheffield Hallam University - Northern Media School. She continued to work in Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia as a film director and film producer. She founded Petra Pan Film Production in 2003. Her documentary The Grandmothers of Revolution has been screened at a variety of film festivals and was the recipient of several awards, including IDFA, Trieste Film Festival, Zagrebdox and Sarajevo Film Festival.

Filmography:

Babice revolucije/ The Grandmothers of Revolution ( Slovenia, 90min, 2006)

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The Grandmothers of Revolution

Babice revolucije (Orig.) / 2006 / Cuba, Macedonia, Netherlands, Slovenia / 90 min

Story of authors Revolutionary grandmothers. They all three fought for what they believed – anarchism, communism, freedom movement, and all three had to pay for that.

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