Petar Mitric

Petar Mitric is an assistant professor in film and creative media at the University of Copenhagen. His research spans audience, production, and policy studies. Since 2018, he has been collaborating with the renowned TorinoFilmLab programme in the capacity of an audience designer. The TFL projects Petar has worked on include Ciro Guerra’s and Christina Gallego’s The Birds of Passage (Colombia-Denmark-France), which opened the Directors’ Fortnight programme in Cannes in 2018; The Play (Chile-Czech Republic, 2019) by the Sundance-winner Alejandro Fernandez Almendras; and the 2021 Venice official competition title White Building (Cambodia-France-China) by Kavich Neang. Petar also co-wrote and co-produced documentaries that were sold to the national broadcasters in Montenegro and Serbia. In 2019, in collaboration with the Free Zone film festival in Belgrade, he developed the programme “Digital Propeller,” aimed at the promotion of European arthouse films. From 2012 to 2020, Petar worked as a consultant for the European film policy.