Jasmin Dizdar (born 8 June 1961) is a British-Bosnian film director,
screenwriter and author best known for his feature film Beautiful
People and his World War Two thriller Chosen. Jasmin Dizdar also
published a book on cinema, which achieved a high volume of sales,
with over 50,000 copies sold.His distinctive filmmaking signature
includes unflaggingly inventive uses of montage, sound and music where
coincidences are often both funny and horrific, iconoclastic dry wit
humor and imaginative rich storytelling. Dizdar’s kinetics awaken
and reveal our fundamental need for love whilst drawing our attention
to what separates us: language barriers, prejudice, dogmatism, and
above all, a collective obtuseness and indifference towards one
another.Jasmin Dizdar was born and grew up in his Bosnian hometown of
Zenica, where his gift for creative writing was spotted early on by
primary school teacher of literature. With her guidance and
encouragement, he sent his short story “History Hour†to a
regional competition and won his first award for the best short
story.When he was 12, Dizdar’s love affair with movies had begun,
and he soon became a prolific cinema-goer. There were four theaters in
Zenica, and Dizdar used an intricate system to get into them for free:
he made facsimiles of movie tickets by scavenging for stubs in rubbish
bins, then collecting the other halves from patrons as they came out
of theaters. Gluing torn bits together and re-using them as fake
cinema tickets enabled him to see the same film several times for
free, particularly multiple showings of such Westerns as Sergio
Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once
Upon a Time in the West. Because Dizdar was so tall for his age (he is
now 6 foot 6), he managed to see Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango
in Paris, despite its 18 rated certificate.
screenwriter and author best known for his feature film Beautiful
People and his World War Two thriller Chosen. Jasmin Dizdar also
published a book on cinema, which achieved a high volume of sales,
with over 50,000 copies sold.His distinctive filmmaking signature
includes unflaggingly inventive uses of montage, sound and music where
coincidences are often both funny and horrific, iconoclastic dry wit
humor and imaginative rich storytelling. Dizdar’s kinetics awaken
and reveal our fundamental need for love whilst drawing our attention
to what separates us: language barriers, prejudice, dogmatism, and
above all, a collective obtuseness and indifference towards one
another.Jasmin Dizdar was born and grew up in his Bosnian hometown of
Zenica, where his gift for creative writing was spotted early on by
primary school teacher of literature. With her guidance and
encouragement, he sent his short story “History Hour†to a
regional competition and won his first award for the best short
story.When he was 12, Dizdar’s love affair with movies had begun,
and he soon became a prolific cinema-goer. There were four theaters in
Zenica, and Dizdar used an intricate system to get into them for free:
he made facsimiles of movie tickets by scavenging for stubs in rubbish
bins, then collecting the other halves from patrons as they came out
of theaters. Gluing torn bits together and re-using them as fake
cinema tickets enabled him to see the same film several times for
free, particularly multiple showings of such Westerns as Sergio
Leone's A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Once
Upon a Time in the West. Because Dizdar was so tall for his age (he is
now 6 foot 6), he managed to see Bernardo Bertolucci's film Last Tango
in Paris, despite its 18 rated certificate.
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