Boris Mitić
Boris Mitić
Graduation Semester MDP
Visiting Lecturer and Project Advisor (2021)
Directing in the Field
Visiting Lecturer and Project Advisor (2020-21)
Boris Mitić is a documentary filmmaker, producer and writer from Serbia.
He was born in 1977 in Leskovac, Serbia and currently lives in Zagreb, Croatia. He worked for some of the most prominent media for several years before deciding to pursue documentary filmmaking. His four documentaries (In Praise of Nothing; Goodbye, How are you?; Unmik Titanik; and Pretty Dyana) have screened at over 200 festivals, received 25 awards and aired at 20 international TV stations.
Boris teaches ‘real-politics’ of documentary film in Europe, America, Asia and online, and writes satirical columns for magazines Playboy and DOX. He holds lectures and presents case studies about how to produce documentaries and how the documentary industry works. He also teaches practical techniques on how to develop a documentary idea, how to prepare an application material and how to fund and promote the actual film.