Production Info

BURN is a brutal story of emigrants from Yugoslavia, who come to New York to forget the horrors of one war and get caught up in a nightmare of another.

BURN is a unique feature film, made for nothing, with a digital consumer camcorder and free 35mm short ends run through a fifty year old Arriflex, with 16mm and S8mm excerpts. The video and film have been matched and technically manipulated in order to achieve a unique look. The style is close to a documentary with hand-held cameras and dynamic editing. Although no-budget, it has a cast of over fifty speaking roles and twenty-five locations.

BURN has premiered in February 2001 at the international film and video festival Mikrokino Fest in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, as festival centerpiece and special presentation. The film opened in Yugoslav theaters on March 24. The film also screened at the Metro/Angelika Film Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives and on the Metro Channel in New York, at The Telluride Indiefest Film Festival and at The International Film and Video festival in the Hague, Netherlands.