Dragana Jurišić is a photographer, writer and filmmaker. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards. Dragana’s work is in several significant collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council Collection, the Irish State Art Collection (OPW), the Bank of Spain, and others.

Her first book, YU: The Lost Country, received accolades worldwide. Her second book, Museum, a collaboration with Paula Meehan, was published in July 2019 and is now in its 2nd edition. Her Own, published in December 2022, received outstanding reviews in El País, The Irish Times and RTE Culture. Dragana is currently working on her first feature-length documentary, The Last Balkan Cowboy (working title).

In episode 279, Dragana discusses, among other things:

• Her forthcoming debut documentary.
• How everything she’s done is an attempt at making sense of her experience during the Balkan war
• Her book YU: The Lost Country
• The influence of Rebecca West’s book Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
• How she would measure the success of the new film
• Wanting to reach as large an audience as possible
• The imposter syndrome she felt as a first time film maker
• Being ‘ergonomic’ about the way she approaches making
• The story of her Aunt and her book Her Own

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Featuring:

• Sjef van Duin, Librarian
• Roderick van der Loos, Interim Director
• Zippora Elders, incoming General & Artistic Director
• Grace Wong-Si-Kwie, Head of Presentations and Public Outreach
• Guinevere Ras, Curator of opening exhibition Awakening in Blue
• Martijn van den Broek, Head of Collections
• Joop De Jong, Guest Curator of opening exhibition, Rotterdam In Focus

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Zackary Canepari is an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow whose work moves between documentary film and photography. He began as a photojournalist in India and Pakistan before creating the Sundance-screened series California Is a place, a portrait of the golden state unraveling at the edges.

He later co-directed the feature documentary T-Rex (SXSW), following teenage Olympic boxer Claressa “T-Rex” Shields as she fought her way toward gold; the film was adapted by MGM into the narrative feature The Fire Inside. His Guggenheim-supported project Flint Is a place expanded documentary storytelling across film, photography, archival material, and immersive media, earning a World Press Photo Award and recognition as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at POYi.

His monograph REX won POYi Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First PhotoBook Prize.

Zackary's documentary Fire in Paradise won an Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He received a second Emmy for directing The Gallagher Effect for The New York Times Presents (FX/Hulu).

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In episode 277, Zackary discusses, among other things:

• How he started in photography
• The experience of cutting his photographic teeth in India
• The complicated question of whether it's a good time to be a filmmaker
• His early project California Is a place, with his collaborator Drea Cooper
• Learning the ropes through experience
• His first feature documentary, T-Rex, and being smiled upon by the documentary gods
• Flint Town
• Thoughts & Prayers
• Fire in Paradise

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