Marko Naberšnik

Marko Naberšnik (born 1973) is a Slovenian television and film director and screenwriter. His first film Rooster's Breakfast (2007) was a box-office hit in Slovenia.

Marko Naberšnik (2012)

Early life

Marko Naberšnik was born on 12 April 1973 in Maribor, Slovenia.^[1]

He attended an 8-week filmmaking program at New York Film Academy in 1996,^[2] and in 2010^[3] received a master's degree from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana.^[1]

Career

Naberšnik has done much work for television, as well as having made a few films.^[1]

His debut feature film was Rooster's Breakfast (2007), which was the "third most-watched Slovenian film of all time",^[1] won the CBS Critics Award at the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles, and was the official Slovenian entry for the Academy Awards that year.^[2]

Naberšnik's second feature film,^[2] Shanghai Gypsy (2012), which screened at the Cleveland International Film Festival in the US in April 2013, was based on the novel The Untouchables (Nedotakljivi^[4]) by Feri Lainšček, telling a multi-generational story of the Slovenian Romani Mirga family. The film won the Best Screenplay award at the Montreal World Film Festival.^[3]

His World War I drama The Woods Are Still Green (2014), starring Michael Kristof and Simon Serbinek, was produced and co-written by Austrian filmmaker Robert Hofferer,^[5] with Hefferer's production company Artdeluxe Films^[6] as well as Perfo Production. It was described by Elizabeth Kerr in The Hollywood Reporter as "a timely meditation on the futility of war and its ability to dehumanize and degrade".^[5]

Other activities

As of 2022^[update] he was a professor at AGRFT in Ljubljana.^[2]