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“Bad Blood,” an ambitious new Serbian feature film and TV series, has become the first project from the Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Drama co-financing forum to go into production since the event’s establishment in 2016.

Set in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century, “Bad Blood” is based on the works of renowned Serbian writer Borisav Stankovic and a script written by Yugoslav filmmaker Voja Nanovic in the early 1970s while he was living in New York City and working for ABC Studios as an editor. Belgrade-based This and That Productions is producing.

Spanning four decades in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, the series chronicles an era beset by major political change and turmoil, when peasants began rising up in strength to the detriment of wealthy merchant families. It follows Trifun, the wealthy leader of the Christian minority, who, while trying to preserve his wealth and power,...

An ambitious new Serbian feature film and 10-part television series set in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century has emerged from a long lost script by a former editor at ABC Studios in New York City.

Belgrade-based This and That Productions is producing “Bad Blood,” based on the works of renowned Serbian writer Borisav Stankovic and a script written nearly half a century ago by Yugoslav filmmaker Voja Nanović while living in the U.S.

Serbian helmer Milutin Petrovic, who discovered the lost screenplay, will direct the film and first three episodes of the series, which spans a 40-year period in the late 19th century. “Bad Blood” is set in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire and at the cusp of a new century, an era beset by major political change and turmoil, when peasants began rising up in strength to the detriment of wealthy merchants families. It follows Trifun,...