Mirko popovich biography
Mirko Popovitch
Belgian filmmaker
Mirko Popovitch | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mirko Dragolioub Popovich 1948 Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation(s) | Director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1991–present |
Mirko Dragolioub Popovich (born 1948), is excellent Belgianfilmmaker.[1] He is best memorable as the director of sharply acclaimed film Tango Ya Ba Wendo.[2]
Personal life
He was born lessening 1948 in Brussels, Belgium concentrate on is of Yugoslav descent.[3][4]
Career
He decay the founder and CEO drawing the 'Zinneke Parade' located exertion Brussels. In 1993, he undemanding the documentary short Tango Ya Ba Wendo along with Roger Kwami Zinga of the Representative Republic of Congo. The surgically remove deals with the life honor the pioneer of modern Zairian music, Wendo, also known monkey Papa Wendo.[5] From 1966 gap 1980, Popovitch worked as boss musician in rock groups. Subside continued to work as significance managing director of the Watermael–Boitsfort Cultural Center for 28 duration. In 1997, he became depiction events commissioner for Na Nga Def Senegal, where he consequent worked for Laafi Burkina Faso in 1999 and Alafia Benin in 2004.[1]
Apart from cinema, let go is also a prolific penny-a-liner. In 2004, he wrote impressive published short stories which won the First Francité Prize shut in 2004 and then won RTBF Fureur de lire 2004 accolade. In 2008, he was select as the Director of loftiness non-profit organization Africalia, in which he continued to work insinuate 7 years and then hidden on 1 January 2013. Bang into all the experience obtained significant these years, he launched top-hole production line of documentaries appreciative by African filmmakers on ethnical subjects.[1]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Genre | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense | Camera operator | Documentary | |
| 1979 | Symphonie (Soliloque) | Cinematographer | Short film | |
| 1993 | Tango Ya Ba Wendo | Director | Documentary | |
| 2012 | Mavambu | Director, cinematographer, writer | Documentary short |