Dimitar Anakiev
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Dimitar Anakiev, an independent filmmaker, writer and poet, was born in
Belgrade in 1960. He completed High Medical School in Nis, Serbia in
1986 and worked seven years as an MD. He resided in Slovenia beginning
in 1987 but shortly thereafter and without warning found himself among
the victims of administrative ethnic cleansing ("Erased"), the result
of secret illegal action enacted 26.2.1992 by the democratic Slovenian
government one year after the disintegration of the state of
Yugoslavia. For 10 years he was compelled to live without personal
documents (such as passport or personal identification), rendering him
an invisible prisoner of the Slovenian democracy. At this point he
purchased a small video camera and began his film career, in an attempt
to make himself and other marginal Balkan people visible. The success
of his films (including the Slovenian national film award) has made it
possible for him to continue filmmaking as a producer, director and
teacher. His company, Dimitar Anakiev Films s.p.-DAF (now Anakiev
Production) specializes in socially engaged films of the Balkans in the
post-communist era. Anakiev is a founding member of the Slovenian
Director Guild, and a member of the Slovenian Filmmaker Association.