Danis Tanovic

Danis Tanovic is a cinematography director, biographer, and producer. He was born on 20th February, 1969 in Zeneca but he was brought up in Sarajevo city. He completed his primary and secondary education over there. He learned to play the piano at the University of Sarajevo. Tanovic had an interest in taking a course at the Academy of Performing Arts at the University of Sarajevo but due to unexpected tank fire attack which was known as the ‘Siege of Sarajevo’, forced him to stop his studies in 1992. Danis current is in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also a Bosnian and Belgian citizen. Later, when the war had risen in Bosnia, he gathered the film crew and filmed many inspirational moments from the Bosnian war. he filmed many dangerous missions and produced copious films from the support of film crew.

The film crew did many films based on drawing situations from the Bosnian war. After two years of hard work with the film crew he decided to resume his studies and left the film crew and moved to Brussels which is the capital of Belgium. In 1997, he he graduated with top marks and even e did some documentary films during his term in school. Tanovic was engaged to Maelys de Rudder, and he was blessed with five children. Until 2007 he lived in Paris. After Danis graduation he began his first movie project named ‘No Man’s Land’ which was completed in the year 2001. Later he debuted his film at the Cannes Film Festival It was his own writing and production. Tanovic got the best screenplay award for the movie at Cannes and also an Oscar award for the best Foreign Film in 2001.

While receiving the award the he made a statement saying, ‘This is for my country, Bosnia’. The film ‘No Man’s Land’, has won 42 awards along with an Oscar because it was the best Foreign Film at the time. Tanovic's second film is “L’Enfer” which was completed in the year 2005 and it was the inspiration for a film by Euripides Medea. In 2008 he announced a proposal to form a political party called ‘Nasa Stranka’, through which he wanted to make changes to the politics of the country. Danis had announced some local elections in the same year, besides this, he got a positive response from the party. In 2010 ‘Cirkus Columbia’ was selected as the best foreign film and got awards at the 83rd Academy Awards. In 2011 he got a doctorate as a ‘honoris causa’ from the University of Bosnia. Danis' latest film is ‘Death in Sarajevo’ , a film that he directed.