Pradok was founded since 2002 by Biljana Stanojević and Želimir Gvardiol (former Spes Film) who have succeeded in reconciling two completely different methods and angles from which they view the reality. They are a team made of a lawyer and a film director. The lawyer has been fighting for human rights for the past twenty years and is an expert on a number of issues concerning human rights (in particular, prisons, refugees, minorities, property…) The film director has authored a number of documentaries about transition and human rights. During the last twenty years he has won numerous prizes at dozens of festivals devoted to films on human rights and social topics.
Pradok is a member of the National Convention for the Entry into the EU in the Sphere of the Rule of Law. All relevant events related to transition, human rights and violations have been translated into film records, as chroniclers of the end of the XX and the beginning of the XXI century.
He is a participant in hundreds of international and domestic conferences on human and minority rights. From the very beginning, Pradok dealt with current topics and was a kind of chronicler of events from the break-up of Yugoslavia until today
Pradok present activities: preparing expert analyses relative to individual political and other rehabilitation acts and confrontation with the past; monitoring vulnerable groups, including ethnic minoritie; making accessible to the public its archives and analyses;
Production company PRADOK from Belgrade – motion picture department has so far realized several film & video projects
documentary film „IT’S ONLY MINE”
documentary film „TRAITOR vs. WAR CRIMINAL”
documentary film „THE UNTOUCHABLES”
documentary film „SECRETS AND DOUBTS“
documentary film „THE ROOTS OF EVIL“
documentary series (3 x 30′) ”UNDESIRABLE“; “TO LIVE NORMALLY“;“ TWENTY YEARS LATER”
multimedia project „INVISIBLE AND UNDESIRABLE“
documentary film “THE EAST MOVES TO THE WEST”
documentary film “THE LAST HOPE”
documentary film ”PUBLIC ACCUSATIONS-ODE TO THE TRUTH”
documentary film „SMALL AND BIG“
Documentaries have been screened at film festivals since 2003: Rio de Janeiro Int’l Short Film Festival (Brazil); Festival de Cine de Huesca (Spain); Prix Europa Berlin (Germany); ZagrebDox (Croatia); Sarajevo Film Festival (B&H); Int’l Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece); Human Rights Film Festival Barcelona/New York/Paris (Spain, USA, France); Festival Int’l du Court Metrage de Lille (France); Visions du Reel Nyon, Switzerland (short list); Jihlava (Czech Republic-East Silver); Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (Serbia); Author’s Film Festival Belgrade; International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade…
Documentaries produced by PRADOK were also shown in: Spain (Barcelona, Bilbao, Daroca), Chile (Santiago), Bulgaria (Plovdiv), SAD (San Francisko), Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Marburg), China (Sichuan), Montenegro (Bar), Slovakia (Košice), Italy (Roma), Russia (Moscow, Kazan, Saratov, Yerevan), Croatia (Zagreb, Zadar), Bosnia and Hercegovina (Tuzla, Srebrenica, Banja Luka), Greece (Larissa), France (Paris), N. Macedonia (Strumica, Skoplje), Slovenia (Isola, Maribor, Ptuj, Nova Gorica), Cameroon (Bamenda), Zambia (Lusaka), Kenya (Nairobi), Albania (Tirana), Iraq (Baghdad), Togo (Lome), Peru (Lima, Cuscoo), Uruguay (Montevideo), Uganda (Kampala), India (New Delhi, Kerala, Goa), Egypt (Cairo), Switzerland (Zurich), Sweden (Stockholm), Poland (Warsaw), Turkia (Izmir), Romania (Bucharest), Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Panama, Gvatemala, Paraguay, Guinea, Dominican Rep., Mexico, El Salvador, Jordan and Serbia (Prokuplje, Velika Plana, Novi Sad, Šabac, Pančevo, Beograd, Smederevo, Gornji Milanovac, Arilje, Vrnjačka Banja, Negotin, Niš, Leskovac)…
Achieved cooperation with: Ministry of Culture and Information Serbia; Open Society Foundation Serbia; Spesfilm Belgrade; Ministry of Human and Minority Rights; Medienhilfe-Zurich; CUPS in Belgrade, Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade, representatives of local communities in Vojvodina, in particular the town of Subotica. Pradok contributes in legal consultancy for groups and NGO organizations engaged in gay and lesbian rights. Commissariat for Refugees and Migration Republic of Serbia; Mama cash-Amsterdam; Film Center Serbia; Secretariat for Culture Belgrade; Yugoslav Film Archive Belgrade; Academic Film Center DKSG; Filmculture Belgrade; A Million Movies a Minute-San Francisco; Dokukino-Zagreb; Petnica-Valjevo; Factum-Zagreb; RTS; RTV; HRT; TV BiH; TV B92; Kanal 3, TV MAG, New Network of Serbia ( TV Santos-Zrenjanin; TV VA Plus-Valjevo; TV Lotel-Loznica; TV Kanal-Paraćin…)
Prizes and Awards:
Award for Best International Documentary-Chileno Internacional de Cortometrajes de Santiago 2003 /doc. “IT’S ONLY MINE“/
Award for Best Documentary Screenplay–Medienhilfe Cirih 2008 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/ Nomination for Best European TV Documentary -Prix Europa Berlin 2009 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
Annual First Prize of the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia for the Best Investigative Documentary-Beograde 2010 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
“Golden buklija” Award for Best Screenplay in a Documentary-International Documentary Film Festival Velika Plana 2010 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
Nomination for Best Investigative Documentary-Central European Initiative Trieste 2010 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
Nomination for Best Short Documentary-Sichuan TV Festival Chengdu 2010 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
III Prize for Documentary -DetectiveFest Moscow 2011 /doc. “Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
“Golden buklija” Award for Documentary-International Documentary Film Festival Velika Plana 2013 /doc. “Secrets and Doubts”/
Special Mention of the Jury for Documentary-Asterfest Int’l Film Festival Strumica 2013 /doc. “Secrets and Doubts”/
Human Rights Award in Documentary-Bamenda Human Rights and Arts Film Festival 2013 /doc. “Secrets and Doubts”/
Prize for Best Short Documentary-Qabila Short Film Festival Cairo 2014 /doc. “Secrets and Doubts”/
Prize “Golden Medal of Belgrade” for Best Short Documentary-Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival Belgrade 2015 /doc. “The Roots of Evil”/
Prize for Best Domestic Film-International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade 2015 /doc. “The Roots of Evil”/
War Veterans Centar Award-International Historical and Military Film Festival Warsaw 2016/doc.”Traitor vs. War Criminal”/
Grand Prix “Golden buklija” for Documentary-International Documentary Film Festival Velika Plana 2016/doc.”The Roots of Evil”/
Special Award for Documentary-Prokuplje Short Film Festival 2016/doc.”The Roots of Evil”/
“Silver Shepherd” Award for Best Camera-TV Ethnological Film Festival FESTEF Kučevo 2016/doc.”The Roots of Evil”/
Prize for Best Short Documentary-Festival de Cine de San Lorenzo 2017, Paraguay/doc.”The Roots of Evil”/
Documentary “The Last Hope” in 2018 had more than a million viewers on 10 local TV stations in Serbia