Juanita Wilson’s award winning ‘As If I Am Not There’ is to be released on DVD and VOD on July 1st by Element Picture Distribution.
‘As if I Am Not There’ tells the story of a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Along with other women in the village, she is imprisoned in a warehouse camp in a remote region of Bosnia where she is picked out to ‘entertain’ the soldiers. It is here she is driven to a decision that will change her life forever.
The film is Juanita Wilson’s feature directorial debut and received many awards including the IFTA for best Film in February 2011 and the Copper Wing Award for Best Feature at the Phoenix Film Festival 2011. It had a limited Irish theatrical release in March of this year. It was a co-production between Octagon Films (Ireland), Sekto Films (Macedonia) and Stella Nova Films (Sweden) with James Flynn (King Arthur) producing for Octagon.
