In the three years since the Sarajevo Film Festival launched its Heart of Sarajevo TV awards, much has changed in the Balkan region’s television sector thanks to investment from regional telecom companies. Sarajevo festival director Jovan Marjanović says production has “skyrocketed” in Bosnia since BH Telecom, which is 51% owned by the government, entered the field.
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BH Telecom CEO Sedin Kahriman says the group intends to “create the largest domestic platform for audiovisual content production” via its BH Content Lab platform, which announced an initial fund of €15 million.
“Additionally, we released a directed public call for topics relating to significant events from several eras of local history, including middle-aged Bosnia, the Ottoman period, the Austro-Hungarian period, WWII, the Defensive War of Liberation and Sarajevo Siege,” he says. “Our region has a lot of historical events, different people and personalities and details that might inspire dramatic treatment with artistic freedom, the use of fiction and genre treatment.
“There’s a corporate social responsibility to create local content and fill the gap that the local streamers helped create because they didn’t move into the market with their original productions,” he says. “Small, indie producers cannot put a couple of million needed together for a TV show. Films rely on co-productions and debt but can take so long to put together so for the indie producers that have big telecom companies coming into plug a gap in the capital needed, it’s a game changer.
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