b. Visegrad-Medjedja, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1961

After attending grammar and high school in Sarajevo, Sisic studied film at the Academy for Film and Drama in 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated in 1988 and a year later, his first short film, Margina 88, won the gold medal at the Yugoslav Documentary and Short Film Festival in Belgrade and the Golden FIPA (Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels) Award at Cannes. Sisic has worked on several projects as director and director of photography, collaborating with TV crews from all over the world on various films throughout the war. In 1995, his thirty-minute documentary film, Planet Sarajevo, received much attention and won several prizes at film festivals worldwide. He lives with his daughter Amina in the Netherlands. He is currently writing the screenplay for an autobiographical feature film entitled Black Line.

There's one series I took just before the war - looking at it you get a sense that something ominous is about to happen. I started to hear all this bad news about fighting taking place over land, our territory - the strongest pushing around the weakest. But I didn't believe that a real war would actually start at all - and I especially didn't believe that it would start in Sarajevo.

The first bombing that took place, that first May bombing, was a total shock. I don't have any of it on film. I didn't even think about making any kind of photographs. There was something else going on inside of me. It ceased to be important that I make an important film. What was happening outside was bigger than all of that and there was this monologue that started working in my head, demanding answers to all sorts of questions that I can't begin to answer, even now, right here at this table: why would you cover a city with as many bombs as they did? How does fascism get so out of hand?

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