Documentary project Gangster of Love wins IDFA FORUM 2011 award for best pitching project in Jihlava
The largest regional pitching forum, East European Forum, taking place in the Czech Republic as a part of the 14th International Documentary Film Festival in Jihlava, director Nebojša Slijepčević and producer Vanja Jambrović and their documentary project in the making Gangster of Love won the IDFA FORUM 2011 award for best pitch.
The award consists of including the project in the most important pitching forum for documentary films in Europe, taking place withing the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA), where the director and producer will get a chance to present their project and find interested partners and funders.
The trailer for the film presented at the pitching forum is available here.
Gangster of Love is a Croatian-Romanian documentary film produced by Restart, Fade In and Romanian Subcultura Films. It portrays a matchmaker from Imotski (Croatia), Nedjeljko Babić, who quits his job as a floorlayer in order to dedicate to a career he was made for – connecting lonely men and women.