![]() KUSIJANOVIC: We shot it on this Croatian Island that my grandmother grew up on and the island I was raised on. It was really the right time, the right project and everything moved very efficiently and smoothly I have to say. ![]() Another beautiful benefit I had is that I’m both European and American so the film was financed both through the private equity from the American and Brazilian sides but also European soft money. I had just finished my master’s degree from Columbia, I had premiered a very successful short film and that was kind of a calling card because it’s also in the same world of this film. I definitely felt like I was making the movie in the right time. I started financing this film, in 2017, which was a very important year for all female filmmakers. I think that it only has one name, which is sexism.Ĭrumpe: What was the journey getting this film financed and off the ground? In some other cultures, it’s maybe called culture or to push it further, customs. we call it chauvinism, in Croatia, we call it mentality. But I also see the same thing in any country in the world. It can be a cultural thing though, like in Balkan countries. Once someone asked me, “so how much chauvinism do you think there is?” and I said, “you mean in percentages? How long have you got?” There’s as much as you allow. KUSIJANOVIC: I think that that mentality exists everywhere. Her desire for life, love, wanting more and wanting to leave her environment is probably something that is very close to me.Ĭrumpe: You mention this world of chauvinism – is that something you’ve felt exposed to a lot in your life growing up in Croatia? The world of chauvinism and family relationships and those dynamics started opening up because I was also spending a lot of time in Croatia at a time prepping the movie and the character really came to me there. ![]() I started writing that same character, Julija, for the feature film. ![]() When I finished that film, I realized that I really wanted to stay more in that world. Nature is violent and their own violence is in juxtaposition to that. That film is about kids completely free in themselves in contrast to this nature. During the summers, I was free on this island and the contrast of this with stark, dangerous nature and hormones, that was kind of my upbringing and that inspired my short film Into The Blue. ![]() KUSIJANOVIC: I grew up on an island with my grandmother and my great grandmother. She’s ready to even sacrifice her own family to escape that place.Ĭrumpe: What was the inspiration for this movie? How did the idea come about? For me, that was a metaphor of our protagonist. It’s the only animal that bits her own skin to free herself. ![]()
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