Actor Nikola Rakocevic receives Berlinale award

BELGRADE - Young Serbian actor Nikola Rakocevic has received the Shooting Stars Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, the Serbian Film Centre (FCS) stated on Tuesday.

The Shooting Stars initiative is the most important project by European Film Promotion, an international organization that the FCS is part of. The FCS put forth Rakocevic as a candidate for the award.

The Shooting Stars jury for 2014, comprising Norwegian actor and former Shooting Star Anders Baasmo Christiansen, film critic and editor Charles Gant from the UK, German film director Hermine Huntgeburth, Croatian casting director Oriana Kuncic and film producer Jani Thiltges from Luxembourg, picked 10 award winners from a group of 25 candidates.

This years winners include Danica Curcic, who was nominated by the Danish Film Institute.

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