The War Reporter

Synopsis

‘The War Reporter’ is a portrait of events occurred during the 1991 aggression in Croatia, which changed the lives of its citizens. This film is not an inquiry into historical truth, but the author’s personal truth. Using the footage he made himself during the Homeland War as a Croatian Television’s reporter, the author tells a personal tale. The war is raging where he grew up, where he dreamed different dreams, but the reality – not only wartime reality – is somewhat different. Ending in complete disclosure, the author uses his own life as an example of a comprehensive and faceted paradigm of war through his own eyes.

Director Biography

Silvestar Kolbas is a photographer, cinematographer and director. Born 1956 in Petrovci near Vinkovci, he grew up in Vinkovci. He graduated in Film and TV Camera in 1982 at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Today he is a full-time professor at the same institution. He has exhibited photographs, published and edited cinematography-related theses, made a live-action and several feature, short and TV films, series and documentaries, both for television and independent productions.