The well known filmmaker from the republic of Croatia Madame Ljubica Jankovic Lazaric,was invited by Prof. Sandeep Marwah to share her professional experience by conducting a weeklong workshop on ’ making of a documentary film’ at Asian Academy of Film & Television.Madame Lazaric is senior member of the Croatian Film Directors guild.She made extensive use of masterpieces of Croatian and Indian
documentaries to explain the art and craft of this format of films presentation.Incidentally,The governments of the Republic of Croatian and India have just signed on agreement under which the two countries shall mutually organise film weeks as well as encourage participation at film festivals organised in the other country in 2001 – 2003.The Republic of Croatian is a country of beautiful sea,mountains and plains and it offers unique locales shooting of films.This country has provided numerous writers,directors,actors and musicians to the world.Croatian stage is 150 years old.The Zegreb school of Animated Films is world-renowned.The local republic of Croatia mission has offered to make available films from their country for use as the teaching material to Asian Academy of Film & Television from time to time.
