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The director of the Official Gazette and the president of the Board of Directors of the Serbian Film Center (FCS), Jelena Trivan, declared that she would not participate in, as she said, “a shameful controversy with the Ministry of Culture” and asked the institution that “denies it by returning the confiscated funds”. FCS.
The Ministry of Culture and Information issued a statement entitled “Jelena Trivan’s Ignorance and Arrogance” stating that the Director of the Official Gazette and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Serbian Film Center “does not understand the work to be done at the Serbian Film Center nor does he understand the budget and financial circumstances surrounding it.
The Ministry stated that Trivan, on one of the television stations with a national frequency, strongly criticized the Ministry of Culture and Information Due to the “reduction of the budget of the Serbian Film Center”, although, as they pointed out, there are “difficulties in distinguishing who makes decisions about the budget of this country and what is its role.
“With full respect for the argument that the Ministry of Culture and Information is unclear about my call for protection of the FCS and the film industry, and since the Ministry has never endorsed cultural workers, I will try to respond alone the facts, without entering a vulgar language “. For the previous 2019, the Ministry of Culture proposed a reduction of the FCS budget by more than 500 million dinars, which we managed to return to the previous level only thanks to the reaction of the Board of Directors and the Ministry of Finance. In December, when it seems to me, in the Ministry of Culture and the coronavirus epidemic has not yet prevailed, the budget of the Serbian Film Center has been reduced by 12 percent, that is, by 146.036 million dinars , and the obligations due in the amount of 253,551 million dinars have not been transferred to our account, which caused great dissatisfaction for the filmmakers who were not paid. The position of the Ministry was that funds should be withdrawn from the cooperation, despite the fact that our films were preparing to perform at international festivals, so FCS covered our presentation at the Berlin Festival, despite the fact that the Ministry abolished those funds, “Trivan said in response to the ministry.
He adds that “in solidarity, with all cultural institutions, they reduced the FCS budget by 20 percent, that is, by 214 million dinars as much as the Ministry requested.”
“… For the ministry to additionally punish the FCS on its own initiative by reducing the budget by another 72,262 million dinars. After that, the responsible Ministry had the idea that it forgot to allocate funds for the National Theater fees, so that they thought would be paid from the budget. In a word, if arrogance and rage are called fighting for the interests of the film industry for which we are appointed, we ask the Ministry of Culture to start fighting for the interests of the people in the culture, even if they have been accused of the same thing, “said Trivan.
And if the Minister believes that the Photography Group of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce supports the guild to back down and be the appendage of the state, try to present yourself to the filmmakers with this information and say that the arrogant board and Jelena Trivan want to protect the film industry. be punished on a lower budget, she added.
Investments in the film so far, as she said, are solely and exclusively “the result of the efforts of the Prime Minister and the Government of the Republic of Serbia to return the Serbian film to its rightful place, with constant obstruction by the Ministry competent”.
Trivan affirms that the Ministry of Culture “does not deserve this form of communication.”
“Therefore, I will no longer participate in this indecent performance and blatant controversy. I ask the Ministry of Culture to refuse me by returning the confiscated funds to the FCS account. My fight is principled and there is nothing personal about it, since I’m not part of the movie guild. ” personal level and insults just because I do my job, “Trivan concluded.
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