Dubravka Lakić is a Serbian film critic who has been writing for the Politika daily newspaper since 1989. She is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the vice president of the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA), a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), a selector of the international program of the Cinema City IFF in Novi Sad, a member of the Board of the Belgrade documentary film festival Beldocs and a member of the Board of the Serbian Film Center.

Born in Belgrade, Dubravka graduated journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade in 1983, while she started her career in 1982 on Radio Belgrade. From 1995 to 1997, she worked in RTV Politika where she was the author of a film show called "In Medias Res", and from 2000 to 2004 the show "Kino klub".

International Career

Aside from her film critique and continuous following of events on the international stage for the last 3 decades, Dubravka Lakić is known for her numerous interviews and personal meetings with renowned individuals from the film world. She has been a member of the jury of many worldwide festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian, Thessaloniki, Pusan, Tromsø, Bergen, Sofia, Koper, Pula, etc.

Festivals

In Serbia, she is known as the author of the European concept of the Palić Film Festival, where she was a selector (2005, 2006 and 2007) of the main and parallel program "Parallels and collisions" and founded the Tolerance Award for the Best Film of South-Eastern Europe, as well as the "Eritrocit" Award for the Best Film Program "Europe Outside of Europe" of FEST, where she was a member of the Board for four years (from 2004 to 2008).

Bibliography

• Monografija 35. FEST, FEST, Belgrade, 1995
• FILM&VIDEO Studije Polemike Ogledi Razgovori, Belgrade, 1997
• Uvećanje - Majstori moderne režije, Institut za film/Prometej, Novi Sad, 1998
• Introducing Youth, FCS, Belgrade, 2008
• Goran Paskalević, 50. TFIF, Thessaloniki, 2009
• Dorota Keđežavska: poljska rediteljka i pisac, CCIFF, Novi Sad, 2011
• Andreas Drezen: nemački reditelj, CCIFF, Novi Sad, 2012

Awards

Dubravka Lakić has been awarded the Golden badge of the Cultural-Educational Community of Serbia for her contribution to Serbian cinematography (1998) and the Winner of the Golden "Beočug" (2002) for her contribution to propagating film art and developing written film thought.