Video-Archive "THE SIEGE" Sarajevo 92-96

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Concept/Outline: Video-Archive "THE SIEGE" Sarajevo 1992-1996 is the most comprehensive document portraying the True story behind Life and Death in Sarajevo, a modern European city, that has endured the most sophisticated terror during the longest siege in the modern history of mankind. As such, the Video-Archive project has been organized in a form of interview testimonials set within 30 episodes in total duration of 30 hours. Following a daily chronology, of 1395 days of the Siege, exploring every aspect of city's life and its 300 000 unarmed inhabitants.

The Video-Archive has tackled more than 1350 topics on different Siege levels, as experienced by Sarajevans of different socio-economic and professional backgrounds, ranging from: ordinary citizens, former and current politicians, librarians, housewives, doctors, children, bakery workers, police officers, businessman, army officers, lawyers, diplomats, artists, journalists, students, translators, professors, refugees, actors, soldiers, bankers, cemetery workers, intellectuals, engineers, pensioners, veterinarians, historians, architects and etc. They have told their personal stories and experiences of chronology, survival and siege experience. Starting from March 2, 1992 - when the first street barricades were set up all the way until the March 16, 1996 when the last occupied city district of Grbavica has been liberated.

They have lived through the siege and have shared their memories and knowledge pertaining to the: food shortages, survival experiences, cultural events, political negotiations, banking, vegetable gardens, cease-fires, shelling, schools, water, burials, the tunnel, universities, convoys, massacres, siege-recipes, politics, medical care, media, habitation, heating, snipers, parks, barricades, the UN, military issues, international relations, religions, multiculturalism, transportation, radio, legal system, humanism, and tolerance.

Forming a complete story about the event that has shaped the World affairs at the end of 20th century. While providing efficient multimedia content as immense resource for educational curriculums and research projects, across the world for; historians, librarians, media, politicians, students, researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, war-crimes investigators, journalist, international organizations, psychologist, intellectuals, diplomats, archives and general public in quest for information and most importantly the knowledge of Human Survival!