MOSCOW -- Leading Serbian film directors including Goran Paskaljevic (Midwinter Night's Dream) and Emir Kusturica (White Cat, Black Cat) are taking the head of the country's film funding agency to court after the lion's share of nearly $1 million in subsidies was handed out to foreign co-productions. The action, supported by the Serbian Association of Film Directors and Screenwriters -- which is also calling for the resignation of Djordje Milicevic, head of funding agency the Serbian Film Center -- follows a public outcry after 800,000 ($991,00) of public money was given to just four productions, two of which were co-productions with neighboring Romania and Croatia. Serbian filmmakers allege that rules dictating matched spending of funds within Serbia by co-productions were not followed and that other irregularities and conflicts of interest call the grants into question. They also question the choice of an international distributor for three of the films they say have close ties to the funding agency chief.
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