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ZAGREB, Sept 10 (Hina) - The documentary film "Invoking Spirits", a
tragic testimony about the suffering of Croatian and Bosnian women,
won an "Emmy" award in New York last night.
The film's producer and director Mandy Jacobson and co-director
Karmen Jelincic received the award from the US President's special
representative Richard Holbrooke.
The executive producer of the film is actress Julia Ormond.
The 63-minute long documentary shows the exodus of people from
Hrvatska Kostajnica and Vukovar and the suffering of people in
concentration camps.
The film revolves around two women - prisoners of the Bosnian Serb
concentration camp in northern Bosnia.
The first women is Jadranka Cigelj, a Croat accused of being a vice-
president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) branch in Prijedor
(north-western Bosnia), while the second victim is a Muslim woman,
a judge at the Prijedor Municipal Court, who opposed the aggression
on Croatia.
According to Cigelj, the film was named "Invoking Spirits" because
the women prisoners in the Omarska camp were so desperate they even
resorted to invoking spirits to find hope in salvation.
The documentary is dedicated to five women killed in the Omarska
camp, which had 37 inmates.
It has received nine awards at international film festivals as well
as major awards from international human rights organisations.
The material presented in the documentary offers evidence for
initiating proceedings for the arrest of war criminals and has
already been shown in the US Senate and Congress.
The documentary was filmed in Croatia and Herzegovina over a period
of three and a half years at a cost of US$300,000.
It was financed by donors, producer and director Jacobson and co-
director Jelincic, a Croatian from the island of Brac.
Used in the film are also parts of documentaries from Croatian
Television, Television Bosnia-Herzegovina, the BBC and materials
illegally obtained from Serbian reporters.
The film has been entered for Oscar nominations in the category of
documentaries.
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