tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54750232011-06-08T02:09:29.771-04:00<p>Back to Bosnia is a documentary following my father's return to his home town of Banja Luka after 8 years of political exile due to the war.</p><p>We will periodically be posting updates from the "Bosnian Front." Please visit often to check on our progress.</p>Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1059164751808958192003-07-25T16:25:00.000-04:002003-07-25T16:25:51.783-04:00

The last two weeks have been a bit quieter and sort of lackadaisical, but now we are back to working. Loren has duplicated some 10 hours of tapes and I need to start translating it all this weekend. My good friend Adnan will be helping me translate it all, for which I am forever grateful. It is a pretty hard job, specially when there is so much material (we have some 130 hours altogether, between

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1058563708476101202003-07-18T17:28:00.000-04:002003-07-18T17:28:28.436-04:00

Hi - it is Alison here. After months of e-mails and url's and check ins and rewrites and especially huge huge support from our friends and family, we are proud to announce that Back to Bosnia has been chosen as a winner of a $25,000 grant from Visa's Ideas Happen contest. This is wonderful, wonderful news! You can see the other winning categories and read our proposal at www.ideashappen.com. I

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1058203970984302392003-07-14T13:32:00.000-04:002003-07-14T13:32:51.056-04:00

Hello it is Alison, one of the producers, here. This has been such a fulfilling and interesting trip that I cannot even remember everything that I have done for the past two weeks much less think I will be able to fully process it for quite some time. The United States seems like quite a culture shock now, after having been immersed in the Bosnian land and some of its experience, but I will try

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1058198258416477522003-07-14T11:57:00.000-04:002003-07-14T11:57:38.273-04:00

Please accept my sincere apologies for not updating this site for the last 10 days or so. We tried and failed both in Banja Luka and Sarajevo, to locate and use a working internet cafe. I even wrote one post and lost it, due to the system overload (they use internet cafes for gaming purposes, so no fast uploads). But, in any case, we did it and are back in NY. It was a trip full of stress and

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Good afternoon! It is our third or fourth day here in Zagreb, we are full on in to our filming at this point, though we have had a few adventures along the way.The first thing that happened was we had to fire our Director of Photography (DP). We had hired someone through a connection of Sabina's cousin. He came highly reccommended, and despite a few instincts that made us think otherwise, he

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1056830792398305022003-06-28T16:06:00.000-04:002003-06-28T16:10:10.586-04:00

Hi, I'm Marcia, sort of the tech person for this weblog. Sabina was recently interviewed by Wendy Wallace on the Internet radio show "Near Life Experience." To hear her talk about the documentary and her story, you can stream... Cable/DSL: http://nlexp.com:8002/content/show7.pls Dial up: http://nlexp.com:8002/content/show7x.pls Or listen to it on MP3... Cable/DSL: http://www.wendywallace.com

marciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00254557981211020140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1056579735717700992003-06-25T18:22:00.000-04:002003-06-25T18:22:15.700-04:00

Hi, Ali Hanson here, I am one of the producers on this trip. Sabina asked me to write a few words. Florida was the perfect test run. We had such a wonderful time meeting Sabina's family and extended family. Apparently in Bosnia when you have a daughter or a son, everyone in the community considers them to be a part of their family. So, Sabina has this wonderful network of people who all care for

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1055860913702050512003-06-17T10:41:00.000-04:002003-06-17T10:45:26.956-04:00

We are 3 days away from the beginning of this little adventure and spirits are high. And tense. :) Our film begins in Florida, where we are going to interview my father, Emir, and find out more details about his story. After that, we are off to Bosnia, for a 2-week shoot. Fun! On the other hand, people have been asking me to write up a bit more about this film and what it is REALLY about, so

Sabinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18102209292167046350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5475023.post-1055693175712677592003-06-15T12:06:00.000-04:002003-06-15T12:06:15.770-04:00

Woo-hoo! My movie idea made it into the top 10 finalists at Ideas Happen. Some of you know about this and I thank you very very much for voting the first time around. If you really liked it, now is the time to vote again. Whoever ends up with the most votes in the end, gets the big bucks, so please vote for me. :) Go to IdeasHappen.com , chose Self Expression, click on Back to Bosnia (2nd

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