The feature-length documentary Tesla Nation directed by \u017deljko Mirkovi\u0107 will premiere on the US public broadcasting service PBS, on Cleveland\u2019s WVIZ World channel, on 16 February at 7 pm, to honor the Serbian Statehood Day, the producers announced.<\/p>\n
The narrator of the work and playing the role of Nikola Tesla in the feature segment is our actor who has lived in the USA for two decades \u2013 \u017deljko Dimi\u0107 or Jack Dimich, and the screenwriters are Milo\u0161 Rastovi\u0107, Marko Lopu\u0161ina, and director and producer \u2013 \u017deljko Mirkovi\u0107.<\/p>\n
The film will have its TV premiere on WVIZ \u2013 Virtual Channel 25, a Public Broadcasting Service \u2013 PBS member television station from Cleveland, Ohio.<\/p>\n
The documentary Tesla Nation has so far been included in the prestigious archives of the United States and the world.<\/p>\n
The notable film project has won many awards around the world and qualified for Oscar nomination.<\/p>\n
The film represents an unusual journey through the past and present of the nation, from the first Serb disembarking on American soil more than 200 years ago until the present day.<\/p>\n
Through the stories of prominent Serbs, besides Nikola Tesla and Mihajlo Pupin, the film introduces the audience to the three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, Walt Bogdanich, the only female member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Gordana Vunjak Novakovi\u0107, Serbian engineers \u2013 creators of the Apollo program, Oscar winners from our region \u2013 Karl Malden, Steve Tesich, Peter Bogdanovich, and many whose names have been recorded by history.<\/p>\n
The film offers a story of the first Serb in America, George Fisher (\u0110or\u0111e \u0160agi\u0107), who had been rescued by fishermen after whom he was named, and whose name features in Livingston\u2019s book \u2018100 Famous Americans.\u2019<\/p>\n
The script also narrates many curiosities, such as that the famous GI Joe toy was made after the model of a Serbian hero, Mihajlo Peji\u0107.<\/p>\n
Tesla Nation was made as both a documentary series and a feature cinema film, produced by Optimistic Film and RTS, at the initiative of the Tesla Science Foundation from Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The project was supported by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia, the US Embassy in Belgrade, Council for Creative Industries of the Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107, and Serb National Alliance (SNF) from Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
Executive producers are Nikola Lon\u010dar, \u0110or\u0111e Jovi\u010di\u0107, Mikan Velinovi\u0107, Borislav Jovi\u010din.<\/p>\n
Source: RTRS-TANJUG<\/p>\n
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