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Bevanda - Purivatra Meeting: Sarajevo Film Festival Is of National Importance

Announcements

06/19/2012

Vijeće ministara Bosne i Hercegovine

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BIH Vjekoslav Bevanda received in Sarajevo today Manger of the Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) Mirsad Purivatra with his assistants. 

Purivatra informed Chairman Bevanda on activities of the SFF. He stressed that, other than touristic and promotional importance it has for Sarajevo and entire Bosnia and Herzegovina, the SFF has also an educational segment significant for the whole of region, where through the SFF Talent Campus Programme, regional film projects of young directors are being created.

Director Purivatra said that the participation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the EU Cultural Programme (2007-2013), especially MEDIA Programme opens the way for the SFF to additionally improve tis work.

Chairman Bevanda vowed a special support to the SFF and underlined that this project is of the importance for the whole country.

“Bosnia and Herzegovina’s institutions have to recognise ideas and projects of general importance and support them accordingly. The SFF is one of such projects”, Chairman Bevanda said.

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