BIO
Tamara is a filmmaker from Belgrade, Serbia who has written, directed and edited several short films which have been screened at many international short film festivals. She studied Film and TV Directing at Faculty Of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts and Architecture at Faculty of Architecture, University in Belgrade. She has participated in documentary film workshops at Magnificent 7 Documentary film festival, DOK Serbia, Kvadrat Centre for Visual Communication (Serbia), Filmer Forge (Bulgaria), Terre di Cinema CineCampus (Italy), international artist residency MultiMadeira (Portugal) and other programs. Her short film in development “Bloom”, was awarded Best Pitch at Bašta Fest in Serbia, Vox Feminae Film Festival and Tabor Film Festival in Croatia in 2021, as well as Lights On Award at ShorTS Development & Pitching Training in Italy 2022.
PROJECT Bloom
Summer of 2004. Eight-year-old Sara comes from the city to the village at her grandma’s where she spends time hanging with a local ten-year old girl Vesna, who introduces her to all the secrets of life, which she learns mostly through fragments from the life of her older teenage sister Anica. Two of them wander around the village observing local rituals imbued with mythical thinking and superstition. At night, they secretly follow Anica who is seeing a mysterious guy from another village. Influenced by the stories told by her grandma and drawn by the hypnotizing aura of their meetings, Sara starts to suspect Anica’s boyfriend might be a vampire. As fear and allure collide inside of her, instead of solving the mystery, she will find acceptance in the unexplainable.
