Božidar Zečević (born 2 January 1948 in Belgrade) is židarZečevićа Serbian filmologist, film historian, dramatist, screenwriter, director, university professor of film analysis, founder and editor-in-chief of the film journal Filmograf.
Biography
He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, was the Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and New York University, NY and postgraduate at the UN University of Peace in Belgrade.
Since 1966 he published a number of books and studies, lectured at universities in Serbia, USA and Europe. He was awarded "Golden Pen for Film Criticism" and "Golden Pen for the Best Book on Film" of the Belgrade Film Institute (for the book Čitanje svetla /Reading the Light/).
He was the Head of the Film Museum of the Yugoslav Film Archive /Jugoslovenska kinoteka/ in Belgrade. He is a member of the European Film Academy, member of the Presidency and the President of the Board of filmology and film history of the Serbian Academy for Film Arts and Sciences.
He was a winner of the Plaque for an outstanding contribution of the Yugoslav Film Archive, Charter of the Belgrade Film Festival, Filmmakers Guild Award for filmological contribution etc.
As a film director and scriptwriter he made over a hundred of feature and documentary films and TV projects. He won the Annual Award of the national Television of Serbia for his TV serial "Yugoslavia in War 1941–1945" and Special Award of the Jury at the "Golden Knight" Film Festival in Moscow for his documentary "A Truth of 27 March".
He was a professor of film theory at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and a professor of film analysis at the school of "Dunav Film". He is editor in several journals, and founder and editor-in-chief of Filmograf journal.
His theatrical plays Pivara, Selektor, 1918 and 1968 were performed on the scenes in Belgrade and Serbia. He won the "Branislav Nušić" Award of the Association of Playwrights of Serbia for the Pivara, and for 1918 he was awarded the "Joakim Vujić" award for the best drama at the festival of professional Serbian theaters of the same name.
He is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Film Artists of Serbia as well as the member of Presidency of the Association of Drama Writers of Serbia.
He lives and works in Belgrade.
Theatrical plays
1918., in: "Savremena srpska drama" ("Contemporary Serbian Drama"), Book 45 (2011) Pivara, in: "Savremena srpska drama", Book 47 (2011)
Filmological monographs
Čitanje svetla (Reading the Light), „Prosveta”, „YU film danas” i „Prometej”, Beograd — Novi Sad, 1993. Velimir Bata Živojinović, Filmski susreti, Festival glumačkih ostvarenja jugoslovenskog igranog filma, Niš, 1994. Filmske novosti 1944–2004.: monografija povodom šezdeset godina "Filmskih novosti" i organizovane kinematografske delatnosti u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori (Film News 1944–2004: monograph on the occasion of sixty years of "Film News" and organized cinematographic activities in Serbia and Montenegro), edited by Božidar Zečević, Filmske novosti, Beograd, 2004. Bikić studio, introductory study written by Božidar Zečević; monograph prepared by Rastko Ćirić, Miroslav Lj. Jelić, Milan Novaković, Filmski centar Srbije, Beograd, 2013 Srpska avangarda i film 1920–1932. (Serbian avant-garde and film 1920–1932), Udruženje filmskih umetnika Srbije, 2013