TESLAFY ME

Running time: 64 min

Format: Full HD / 16 : 9

ABOUT THE FILM

NIkola Tesla kicked off the industrial revolution by pioneering the ideas behind electric energy and wireless communications. Though generally uncredited for his inventions, his ideas continue to shape our future. Gentleman, society figure, and engineer, see how his personal life influenced his discoveries and how scientists are still finding new uses for his technology to solve global issues.

DIRECTOR’s STATEMENT

The civilization we are living in today stands on Nikola Tesla’s discoveries and patents. The fact that most of people connect Nikola Tesla’s name only with a car, but using his work every day and taking it for granted, made me think more and more about that subject. After l found out also about injustice that happened to him in his life, I said I have to make people aware about Nikola Tesla and his work. I wanted to do a documentary to inspire people to start researching by themselves about Nikola Tesla, because I know that in understanding of his work there is also a key for our future. He was the father of renewable energy and all of his work was to prevent a big problem we are facing today – climate changes. He was observing nature and its laws and made his discoveries upon that..and that was the most inspiring influence for making this documentary film.

DIRECTOR’s BIOGRAPHY

JANJA GLOGOVAC was born in Slovenia, Maribor. Studied film directing in Zagreb (Croatia) at ADU (The Academy of Drama Arts) , but left after the second year to attempt at famous Prague Film Academy – FAMU. 2002 she obtained a masters degree at FAMU academy in visual arts, specializing in film directing. Between the years 1994 and 2000 she worked as a director for the Croatian television (HTV), for Slovenian radio-television (RTV) and Czech national television (CTV). She shot more than 70 documentaries across Europe. Her first feature film L…like love she shot with the establish cinematographer Igor Luther and with stars as Rade Serbedzija, Lucija Serbedzija, Labina Mitevska, Davor Janjic, Ksenija Misic and others brilliant actors. L…like love had a premiere at Rotterdam film festival 2008, as well opened a new section at Valencia film festival called Film by woman. The commission of the Eurocine 27 chose L…like love as the opening film of the film festival in Brussels, that took place simultaneously in 5 other cities in Europe (Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, Madrid and Rome). L…like love was also screened at Cannes film festival, Warshaw film festival, International film festival Raindance in London,..Presented also at Berlinale film market and had cinema release in Slovenia 2008.

She was awarded for her short film F as the best European movie by Paris Academy and won several recognitions for her documentary movie TITO. In 2017, she participated in the East Doc Platform in Prague where she was honored with the prize at DocTank section for our transmedia project TESLAFY ME and also at id/w workshop in Nyon – Switzerland and iFlab in Belgium and France.

CAST & CREW:

Directed and written by Janja Glogovac

Produced by Janja Glogovac

Music by Kevin White

Cinematographers:  Igor Luther, Radan Popovic, Milan Maric

Sound by Patrick Giraudi

Edited by Janja Glogovac

Post production by UPP Prague

Voice over by Michael Manske

Radio voice by Ksenija Misic

Interviews: Leonardo Di Caprio, Marina Abranovic, Mira Furlan, Gramatik, Branko Terzic, Aaron Murakami,..