- Occupation
Producer - Country
Macedonia
Popov Darko
Funeral & Wedding Orchestra
This is a story of life and death told through the language of music. Fifteen musicians of the funeral orchestra in Kavadarci now struggle to survive. Once they played at about seventy funerals a year, but since a chapel was built next to the cemetery entrance, almost no one orders music for funerals. The families do not wish to pay for a hundred meters of music, i.e. the distance from the chapel to the graves, since people in town will hardly hear it. So the musicians now try to earn some money by playing at weddings and similar festivities, but very few would hire the funeral orchestra to play at a wedding.
This is a story of life and death told through the language of music. Fifteen musicians of the funeral orchestra in Kavadarci now struggle to survive. Once they played at about seventy funerals a year, but since a chapel was built next to the cemetery entrance, almost no one orders music for funerals. The families do not wish to pay for a hundred meters of music, i.e. the distance from the chapel to the graves, since people in town will hardly hear it. So the musicians now try to earn some money by playing at weddings and similar festivities, but very few would hire the funeral orchestra to play at a wedding.
Born in Skopje in 1979. Education: Film, TV & Theater Production. Currently on MA studies – Communication & Media. His last production PUNK'S NOT DEAD won EAST OF THE WEST AWARD at IFF Karlovy Vary. Funeral & Wedding Orchestra is his first documentary film, as a producer.
Producer and Co producer: STATE OF SHOCK (2011), PUNK’S NOT DEAD (2011), DECISION –(2010). Line Producer and Production Manager:THE SKOPJE(2009), NORMAL (2008), EAST WEST EAST (2008), AT HOME (2007), REMEMBRANCE (2004). Location manager and Location Manager Assistant: THE PHILANTROPIST (Episode 5: Kosovo) (2009), SHADOWS IN THE DARK (2008), ISKUSENIE (2007), TIME OF THE COMET(2007), SHADOWS (2006), MME...WHO STARTED FIRST (2002). Production Assistant: BAL KAN KAN(2003), MULTILEVEL (1999)
East European Forum - 2012