Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on career-defining film 'Murina'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s debut feature “Murina” won best first film at Cannes last year. Though it may seem like a story of instant success, the Croatian director says she spent years educating and establishing herself. When something happens “out of the blue and overnight, it's actually ten years of work behind it,” she explains. Kusijanovic had worked at different film companies and affirms those connections helped her finance the 2017 short film “Into the Blue.” The path to fund “Murina,'' she says, seemed easier, as she presented RT Features with only a letter of intent. “Everybody already knew me, how I am in business, so I was already familiar to all of these people that were involved in the project,” she says. Now, Kusijanovic discusses her love for theater and the path that took her to co-writing and directing the coming-of-age drama “Murina.” But first, movie theaters will start to feel the summer cool-off, with moviegoers banking on streaming services’ shows, including the first $1-billion series. Plus, former Disney executive John Lasseter returns. Kim Masters discusses with guest-host Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.4	With her debut feature, Marin, awning the camera door for best first film at Cannes last year,
0:10.9	director Antonetta Alamak Kusayanovich may seem like an instant success,
0:15.1	but the Croatian filmmaker says she had spent years educating and establishing herself.
0:26.6	Always when like something happened out of the blue and overnight, it's actually 10 years of work behind it. Everybody already knew me. People could have confirmed how I am in business.
0:31.6	So I was already familiar to all of these people that were involved in the project.
0:41.8	Antonetta Alamak Kusayanovich on the path that led to her coming-of-age drama,
0:46.7	Marina, on what it was like having Martin Scorsese come aboard as an executive producer.
0:51.1	And on dancing the night away at Cannes, even though she was nine months pregnant and told she was going to give birth within 24 hours. But first we banter.
0:56.5	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my guest fellow banterer on the business,
1:04.5	Lucas Shaw, this week, because Matt Bellany has done the unprecedented thing of taking an actual
1:10.1	vacation where he's not even on the
1:12.5	grid, supposedly. So welcome, Lucas. Thank you for joining. Oh, it's great to be back. So let's talk
1:18.0	about the wall. The theaters have been enjoying a bit of a run. You know, we all know that Top Gun Maverick
1:23.4	has pulled in over a billion dollars and still going. It's been a pretty nice summer for the
1:27.8	theaters after the absolute horror of dealing with COVID. But because of various factors,
1:33.6	not unrelated, there is going to be a trough of movies now pretty much until well into the fall.
1:40.6	Yeah, you have, you know, the last really huge movie to come out in theaters was the Thor sequel,
1:47.1	unless you want to consider Jordan Peel's nope, kind of the end of the summer blockbuster
1:51.6	season.
1:52.6	And then the next movie that I think anyone would consider a blockbuster is Black Adam, the D.C.
1:58.1	D. D.C. D.C. D.J. Johnson movie coming out in mid-October. Everything in between there,
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