SFX Mask Making Workshop / Film Front

Within the festival ‘Film Front’, which will take place in the Cultural Center of Novi Sad from 27 to 30 October, as part of the Comic Book City, SFX mask making workshop will be organised.

A graduate academic sculptor and a special effects expert, Miroslav Lakobrija, will hold a lecture. He is a professor at the Academy of Aesthetics and Cosmetology ‘Purity’, where he teaches Film and Special Effects Makeup. In 1997, he established the ‘Mladi kadrovi’ association (Eng. Young Talents) with Jakša Vlahović, and started doing what he truly loves, which is creating special film effects. He is one of the authors and founders of the ‘Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film’. He professionally deals with mask making and special effects make-up for the purposes of filmmaking. In addition to the film, he tried his hand at TV shows and theatre. In previous years, he led several artistic mask making workshops. In 2011, he received the award for the best special effects in the film ‘Zone of the Dead’, and in 2018, the award ‘KAPLJA’ for contribution to horror films – Russian International Horror Film Award. He is the winner of the ‘Big Golden Arena for Best Film’ award in Pula for the 2019 film ‘The Last Serb in Croatia’. The largest projects he has been working on: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, Zone of the Dead, Mamula, A Serbian Film, St. George Slays the Dragon and the Kalkan Circles.

The workshop is divided into four segments:

I part – Introduction to materials and clay modelling (27 October)

II part – Making silicone wounds, scars and masks, and make-up techniques leading to the creation of the final mask (28 October)

III part – Presentation of masks (29 October)

IV part – Zombie walk (30 October)

You don’t need previous professional experience or formal education is necessary to participate in the workshop.

You can apply until 23 October, and you can find the application form on the official website, filmfront.rs.

The ‘Film Front’ festival was born out of the need to affirm short original films and provide support to a new generation of filmmakers (professionals and amateurs) who, thanks to the then-new digital technology, started their own small and independent productions.

‘Film Front’ is organised as part of the Other? Europe programme arch. It also represents a platform around which authors from the region gather, exchange experiences, network and improve their opportunities for further development and film production.

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