Studio Virc avdio-vizualna produkcija d.o.o.
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Past events
18 Oct 2024
26 Oct 2024
FranceMontpellierCorumLe Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen
"Greek Apricots - Grške marelice" by Jan Krevatin has been included in the competitive programme. Short film panorama will include the animated film "Catlands - Maček med vrati" by Ana Čigon and Slovenian minority coproduction "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" by director Nebojša Slijepčević, coproduced by Slovenian Studio Virc. Both short films were made with financial support of the Slovenian Film Centre.
11 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024
CroatiaPulaKino ValliPula Film Festival
Several Slovenian films will be included in the programme. "Shooting Blanks - Poslednji heroj" by Žiga Virc and Iza Strehar is a Slovenian-Greek-Croatian-Italian coproduction. In the category of student film, two Slovenian productions will be included: "Juvies - Domčani" by Jure Štern and "Last Day of Spring - Zadnji dan pomladi" by Jan Krevatin. Slovenia will also be represented in two coproductions: Montenegro's "Forever Hold Your Peace" alongside Serbia, Czech Republic, Croatia and North Macedonia; and "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent", coproduced by Croatia, France, Bulgaria and Slovenia, with Boštjan Virc of Studio Virc.
14 May 2024
25 May 2024
FranceCannesCannes International Film Festival
This year's short film competition selection will be featuring Slovene minority production, "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent - Mož, ki ni mogel molčati" by director Nebojša Slijepčević, coproduced by Les Films Norfolk, Contrast Films and Boštjan Virc of Studio Virc.
Slovenian Film Centre will be presenting itself in the scope of SEE Pavilion, as well as presenting two new Slovenian productions: "Family Therapy - Odrešitev za začetnike" by Sonja Prosenc and "Cent'anni" by Maja Doroteja Prelog.
All three films presented in Cannes have been made with the support of Slovenian Film Centre.- Studio Virc: Mini Slate 2023, 2023
Project summary - Slate Funding 2020: The Last Hero; The Confidence Trick; Lucia and Zoran; Granny’s Sexual Life, 2020
Project summary - Skiing in Scarves, 2018
Project summary - Houston, we have a problem!, 2012
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Films and documentaries
Some of the more notable recent films by Studio Virc deal with mountains, and two of them – one about a female climber from pre-WWII years, another about the Slovenian Mountain Rescue Service – garnered them multiple prizes at the International Festival of Mountain Film. Two other similarly themed documentaries are Aurora Polaris (2012), a film about an Alaska climbing expedition, and Crescent Above Edelweiss (2013), which deals with a mosque built during WWI in a small alpine village called Log pod Mangartom.
Many of their works, including the documentaries Vojne igre (War Games, 2012) and Optimisti (Optimists, 2015), were co-produced with Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV Slovenia).
Houston, We Have a Problem!
In 2012, Studio Virc edited a short teaser for a documentary about a supposed Yugoslavian space programme, sold to the United States in order for them to be able to land on the moon. Rather creative with facts and reality, the teaser became a viral hit on YouTube and its success enabled them to produce Houston, We Have a Problem!, a tongue-in-cheek mix of a documentary and a feature film.
Created as an international co-production with RTV Slovenia, Nukleus Film (SI), Sutor Kolonko (HR), WDR (DE) and HBO Europe, the film premiered in April 2016 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
Awards and international recognition
Studio Virc has also been commercially active abroad and has, for example, recorded a series of TV commercials to promote Egyptian tourism. Their work has been awarded at the World Media Festival in Hamburg and at the Cannes Corporate Festival.
Their documentary film 400 let iskanja (400 Years of Searching), directed by Haidy Kancler, was given the Audience Award at MUVI Lisboa 2015 and also gathered awards at the Solo Positivo Film Festival (HR) and the Balkan Film Food Festival (AL).
Though achieving this very early on, even before joining the company, Žiga Virc managed to get his short film Trieste is Ours! nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Foreign Student Film.