Roko Belic started his filmmaking life in third grade with his brother, Adrian, when a friend of theirs (see Christopher Nolan - MEMENTO and FOLLOWING) borrowed a super-8 movie camera from his parents. Heavily influenced by STAR WARS, the young team experimented with special effects and the surreality of film. Later, because the knob on his family's single television had broken off (and his mother used a wrench to lock the TV to the local PBS channel), Roko became enchanted with programs through which he could explore the world around him. In 1989 he enrolled at the University of California at Santa Barbara and majored in studio art. He studied Russian, Swahili, and Arabic languages and during the middle of his term he took a year and half hiatus to work and then travel around the world. Having made films throughout his educational career, GENGHIS BLUES was the first of his professional efforts. It was nominated for an Academy Award® in 2000 and won the Sundance Audience Award in 1999, amongst many, many other international accolades. Belic is often to be found consulting, teaching, editing or building a shed to house an AVID and his grandmother's furniture. At the beginning of this year, he spent a month in India filming the Kumbha Mela for "Twilight Man", the part-fact/part-fiction tale of a wandering wise man and a westerner who find they have something to teach each other. He edited Jasmine Dellal's AMERICAN GYPSY: A STRANGER IN EVERYBODY'S LAND (1999), produced and directed FREEDOM WRITERS (2002), and co-produced his brother Adrian's 2006 documentary BEYOND THE CALL.  Nominated for Achievement in Documentary Features 1999: GENGHIS BLUES - Producer (w. Adrian Belic) 1 nomination