Boris Miljković


Boris Miljković is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, creative director in advertising and writer.

Biography

Boris Miljković studied Film directing at the Department of Film and TV Directing of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of Belgrade's University of Arts and graduated with diploma. Together with Branimir Dimitrijević, he became part of the creative duo Boris & Tucko and was co-author and co-director of numerous TV shows and films during the eighties, including Niko kao ja, Rokenroler, Ruski umetnički eksperiment and Šumanović - Komedija umetnika. A section of his contemporary video work was introduced at exhibitions of the Museum of Modern Art and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1989.
In the nineties, he worked as creative director in advertising for Saatchi and Saatchi Cairo and McCann Erickson Belgrade in cooperation with Srđan Šaper. The artist was creator of video impressions of the performance Silence of the Balkans which was the final event of Thessaloniki – European Capital of Culture 1997. In recent decades, he has created several hundred television advertisements, music videos and theater trailers. The film artist is also author of printed literature which is mostly edited by the publishing house Geopoetika. Miljkovic is laureate of renowned prizes such as JRT Award, Prize of Monte Carlo Television Festival, Clio Award, MTV Award, the Isidora Sekulić Award 2002 for his prose Tea Time in Zamalek, the UEPS Award 2007 and the Golden Maple Award of Jahorina Film Festival 2016.
In 2003, he directed Slobodan Šnajder’s Nevjesta od vjetra at National Theatre Belgrade and Stravinsky's Prica o vojniku at Atelje 212 Theatre two years later. He was appointed artistic director for the conceptual realization of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008. In 2017, he was one of the initiators of the Serbian MTS Vision Festival. Miljković has been creative director at Radio Television of Serbia for many years.

Filmography (selection)

Film