My Fellow Countrymen
dir. Aleksandar Petraskovic
2020
Running time: 16:15
Film
My Fellow Countrymen centers on two families who have emigrated from Serbia, one living in Sweden and the other in Canada. In these new lands, the families are reexamining their national identities through the prism of their children who have now spent most of their lives far away from their home countries. Balancing their children’s well-being and nostalgia for home, the families have yet to decide whether to return to Serbia home. The question now is just where is home?
Aleksandar Petraskovic
Aleksandar Petraskovic graduated from the University of Novi Sad - Serbia in 2010, earning a bachelor's degree in journalism with honors. He worked as a sports broadcaster at the Serbian regional television company - RTV - and reported from sporting grounds across this southeastern European country. After eight years in broadcasting, Petraskovic decided to pursue a career shift. His production of short sports stories had not only helped him develop storytelling skills but had also instilled aspirations to further his knowledge about the documentary world. In 2018, Petraskovic received a Fulbright scholarship to study in the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism. He earned his Master's degree in documentary journalism from MU in December 2019. Before returning to Serbia to work at RTV as a journalist in the Documentary and Educational Unit, Petraskovic interned for renowned investigative journalist Ronan Farrow in New York City and collaborated on a series of the Catch and Kill podcasts, which were recorded in late 2019.