Middle East has been long captured in wars and anarchy. It’s imposible to predict how the wars will develope but it’s quite clear – rivers of blood will change the face of Middle East as we have known it by now. All these wars, battles, difficult positions woke up the acient aspirations of Curd nation for indipendency. 30 to 40 milion of Curd people are the biggest nation without it’s own state , so they live inside four states: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. They fight hard against ISIS which wants to conquer their teritory in Syria (canton Kobane) and in Iraq (province Kirkuk and mountain Sinjar). Erik Valenčič was the only journalist that was alowed to be in the battle’s frontline. Through this exprience and through interviewing Curd polititians as well as the common people, we get the picture about their long battle in this most dangerous place in the world.
| Producer: |
Damjan Zupančič |
| Director: |
Erik Valenčič |
| Script: |
Erik Valenčič |
| Camera: |
Erik Valenčič
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| Editing: |
Dejan Koban
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| Others: |
Sound designer: Marjan Drobnič
Musical equipment: Simon Šurev
Producer of the show: Vojko Fakin
Performers: Lidija Hren (Voice), Erik Valenčič (Voice) |
Erik Valenčič is a long-time journalist and an expert on the situation in Middle East. He started his career in 2001 at Radio Študent, where he was working in a current political redaction and took over the department from 2006 to 2007. Afterwards he moved to Mladina, for which he was writing until 2012 and in the meantime reported for the Slovenian edition of the newspaper Le Monde diplomatique. All these years he’s been travelling around Middle East and Africa and created numerous news covers. In 2011 his book Obleganje Gaze – Ubijanje palestinskega ljudstva was published. From 2012 to 2015 he was working for a foreign political redaction at the national television (RTV), for which he also made two documentary films: Koalicija sovraštva and Fronts of Kurdistan. Koalicija sovraštva received special mention in investigative journalism category at the European Association of Regional Television Circom in May 2015 in Dundalk in Ireland and in the same year Fronts of Kurdistan was awarded special achievement prize by the Association of Slovenian Journalists. Valenčič is a co-editor of the last edition of a newspaper Časopis za kritiko znanosti entitled Rasizem: razrezani svet, published in summer of 2015. In December 2015 his debut novel Sence ne gorijo was published by a publishing house Sanje. His second novel Smrt za življenje is due to be released in October 2017 by the same publisher.
Valenčič often writes for a weekly magazine Mladina as well as cooperated with production companies STARAGARA and TRAMAL FILMS. He’s also a director of Culturally-social institute Sagar. Together with a filmmaker Miha Mohorič he created new documentary film titled Troje svetih, probably shown on national television in November.
