ZILLION film :: About us : O nama

Zillion was founded on February 22^nd 1996. to produce "The White Suit" by Lazar Ristovski, with a budget of 1.200.000 $.
The film was premiered in Cannes in 1999 within the "Critic's Week" program, and had very positive reviews. In Yugoslavia it had more than 250.000 cinema viewers.
The film was screened in many renowned international film festivals, winning a number of awards.

The international distributor for The White Suit is: The Works TSC Ltd London.
The White Suit was the Yugoslav nominee for the ACCADEMY AWARDS 2000.

Zillion is also a publishing company. For the Belgrade premier of The White Suit, Zillion published the homonymous novel written by Lazar Ristovski.
The second edition of the book appeared shortly after.

In 2000 Zillion produced a short 22 minutes feature entitled "Movie Star" directed by Lazar Ristovski

Zillion is also one of the three main producers of the feature film "Boomerang" by Dragan Marinkovic. The film was screened at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival in the "Panorama" program.

The film is a Yugoslav-Canadian co-production.
In Yugoslavia the film had a cinema audience of 150.000 viewers.

In 2002 Zillion independently produced the feature film "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" directed by Dejan Zečević.
In Yugoslavia the film had a cinema audience of 170.000 viewers.

Zillion is one of the co-financers of the feature "FALLING INTO PARADISE" by Miloš Radovic. The film is a European production co-financed by a number of institutions including "Eurimages". Movie premier was held in Belgrade 19.04.2004.

Zillion film is one of co-producers and executive producer of Goran Paskaljević MIDWINTER NIGHTS DREAM movie with Lazar Ristovski and Goran Paskaljević as producers.

Movie premiere took place on 2004. Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festival

In the year 2006 Zillion film had three premieres of the following pictures:
TAILOR’S SECRET by MILOŠ AVRAMOVIĆ,
TOMORROW MORNING by OLEG NOVKOVIC and
THE OPTIMIST`S by GORAN PASKALJEVIC

Zillion is only production company for TAILOR’S SECRET by MILOŠ AVRAMOVIĆ and TOMORROW MORNING by OLEG NOVKOVIC.

THE OPTIMIST`S by Goran Paskaljevic, Zillion film, is co-coproducer with NOVA FILM, ZEPTER INTERNATIONAL and WANDA VISION.

TOMORROW MORNING - world premiere KARLOVY VARY 02. JULY.2006.

THE OPTIMIST`S – world premiere TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2006.

Zillion film offers co-production services for feature films over Serbia territory.

Lazar Ristovski is the owner of Zillion FIlm Productions.

Zillion film
Gundulićev Venac 42
11 000 Beograd
Serbia
Tel-Fax + 381 11 3034761
E- mail zillion@nadlanu.com