Vuk Lungulov-Klotz

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz (born 1994 in New York City) is a US-American film director.

Life and career

Vuk Lungulov-Klotz was born in 1994 in New York City to immigrants of Chilean and Serbian descent. The filmmaker grew up in New York City, Chile and Serbia.[1][2][3] At the age of 17, he returned to the United States from Chile to attend SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory, where he graduated in 2016.[3][4] At the age of 23, he participated in the Screenwriter's Lab of the Sundance Institute.[5]

His trans-themed short film Still Liam, which features Liam, a trans man who works at a gas station before transitioning, was released in select United States theaters in May 2016. The film shows his experiences in everyday life from his point of view and in comparison to how the world sees him.[4] In this student film, Liam is embodied by two different actors, a woman and a man.

His film drama Mutt, for which he developed the screenplay as part of the Sundance Institute Labs, premiered in January 2023 at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. In February 2023, the film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. In Mutt, he tells the story of Feña, a young trans man, over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, when three people from his past come back into his life.[6]

Personal life

Lungulov-Klotz lives in Brooklyn.[6]

Filmography
  • 2016: Still Liam (short film)
  • 2019: Welcome Back, Lenny (short film)
  • 2021: River Fork (short film)
  • 2023: Mutt

Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

  • 2023: Honorable Mention in the section Generation 14plus (Mutt)[7]

Sundance Film Festival

  • 2023: Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize – Dramatic (Mutt)

References
  1. "Mutt - Generation 14plus 2023". www.berlinale.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  2. "Vuk Lungulov-Klotz". Vimeo. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  3. "Vuk Lungulov-Klotz". Vuk Lungulov-Klotz. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  4. "Vuk Lungulov-Klot '16". www.purchase.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  5. jo@nofilmschool.com (2023-01-26). "How Vuk Lungulov-Klotz Made One of Sundance's Best Dramas with a Small Crew and Limited Time". No Film School. Retrieved 2023-06-17.
  6. https://www.berlinale.de/de/presse/pressematerial/presseheft-download-action.html?file=Generation/Mutt/202309562_en_1_Mutt.pdf
  7. "Gläserne Bären und die Preise der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung bei Generation 14plus". www.berlinale.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-06-17.
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