Festivals/Awards:
VPRO Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary – IDFA 2015, Best Nordic Documentary - Nordisk Panorama FF 2016, Special Jury Mention – DOCAVIV 2016, Silver Apricot - Yerevan IFF 2016, My Generation Award – ZagrebDox 2015, Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary - Göteborg FF 2016, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2016, Lubljana Doc Film Festival 2016, Helsinki
Documentary Film Festival 2016, Melbourne IFF 2016, Hot Docs FF 2016, Belfast IFF 2016, Millenium Docs Against Gravity FF 2016
Director's Bio-Filmography:
JERZY SLADKOWSKI (n. 1945, Polonia) este un regizor și producător independent care locuiește în Suedia din 1982. A studiat limbi clasice și journalism și a lucrat, de asemenea, în domeniul jurnalismului. Recompensat cu European Film Award pentru VENDETTA (1996), a realizat mai bine de 40 de documentare și este cunoscut îndeosebi pentru maniera complexa de a reprezenta relații, după cum se poate vedea în SWEDISH TANGO (1999) sau în VODKA FACTORY (2010), distins cu Golden Dove la DokLeipzig.
Director's / Curator's Statement:
„Making Don Juan has been an adventure all the way long. Things we tried to plan or arrange in advance didn’t work in this film. Thanks God we understood early in the process who was the Boss in this production. It was Oleg. He, kind of, took us for a ride through the complicity of his existence. We just followed him, his mom, grandma, his therapists, teachers and, last but not least, new friends from the actors studio in Nizhnyj Novgorod, on his first steps of the trip to the emotional adolescence. Did we leave him happy? Probably not, but, we believe, he made a first dive into the world of feelings other than fear. It is our hope that, with the help of his new friends, he will stay there for good.“ (Jerzy Sladkowski)