Darko Lungulov

Darko Lungulov

Creator of "Turkish Ambassador"

Darko Lungulov’s debut feature, HERE AND THERE, USA-Serbian-German coproduction, won the Tribeca 2009 Best NY Narrative Award and received critical acclaim from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and The New York Times. It was one of the early Netflix streamed movies, and the film is now available on Amazon Prime. It won 20 awards at more than 50 international festivals, was theatrically released in the USA, Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, and Greece, and sold to 21 territories. Fipresci Serbia voted Darko for Best Director in 2009. Darko’s next film, MONUMENT TO MICHAEL JACKSON (2014), a Serbian-Croatian-German-Macedonian coproduction supported by Eurimages and MEDIA, had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary and received critical acclaim from Variety. Subsequently, it won the Best Eastern European Film Award at the Santa Barbara IFF at its US premiere. At Nashville IFF, it has won the Grand Prix along with The Best Actor Award. At Montenegro IFF, it has won the Grand Prix – Golden Mimosa Award. HBO Eastern Europe distributed it. Darko co-wrote the SUNDANCE 2016 official entry, A GOOD WIFE, directed by Mirjana Karanović. It was screened at over 40 festivals and has won numerous awards, most notably at Göteborg IFF, Cleveland IFF, Vilnius IFF. Darko directed two seasons of The Suspects, a TV series for Serbian national television RTS in 2016. and 2017. For the last six years, Darko has been producing/directing the feature music documentary and documentary TV series that follows the 50-year-long carrier of legendary Yugoslav / Serbian rock band YU Grupa. He is also co-producing and co-directing Serbian – German documentary THE BEST GOALKEEPER IN THE WORLD. Presently, Darko is developing a feature film, coming of age autobiographical dramedy 1970 supported by Film Center Serbia.