Boris Malagurski

Boris Malagurski (Борис Малагурски; born 11 August 1988) is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, political commentator, television host, and activist.

His films include the documentary series The Weight of Chains.

Born to Branislav Malagurski and Slavica Malagurski, Boris grew up in the northern Serbian town of Subotica.

In an interview for Literární noviny, Prague's cultural and political journal, Malagurski said that his last name originates from the Polish town of Mała Góra.

Malagurski emigrated to Canada in 2005 and made a documentary film about his move from Serbia called The Canada Project.

Excerpts from the film were shown on Serbian National Television, as a part of Mira Adanja-Polak's TV show.

Since then, Malagurski identifies himself as Serbian-Canadian.

While studying Film Production at the University of British Columbia, Malagurski organized protests in Vancouver against Kosovo's declaration of independence and received help from Canadian journalist Scott Taylor and Irish diplomat Mary Walsh in making his film about Kosovo.

In 2009, Malagurski released Kosovo: Can You Imagine?, a documentary film about the plight of Serb communities living in Kosovo at that time.

Former Canadian general Lewis MacKenzie, Canadian former diplomat James Byron Bissett, former UNMIK officer John Hawthorne and economist Michel Chossudovsky are interviewed in the film.

In 2010, the newspaper Politika described Malagurski as the "Serbian Michael Moore", though Malagurski himself had spoken of his use of "Michael Moore post-production techniques", earlier in the same year.

In 2010, Malagurski released The Weight of Chains, his documentary film analyzing the role that the United States, the European Union, and the NATO alliance as a whole allegedly played in the breakup of Yugoslavia.

The film features interviews with James Byron Bissett, John Bosnitch, Michel Chossudovsky, Vlade Divac, Branislav Lečić, Veran Matić, John Perkins, general Lewis MacKenzie and others.

The film was shown in cinemas in Australia, Canada, the United States and Serbia, also at the festivals listed below, and on Eurochannel TV networks.

Malagurski became a Canadian citizen and remained in Canada until 2011, when he returned to work in Serbia.

Malagurski attended Kitsilano Secondary School in Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Malagurski earned his bachelor's degree in film production from the University of British Columbia.

Malagurski co-directed (with Ivana Rajović), The Presumption of Justice in 2012, a documentary dealing with the September 2009 death of Brice Taton, a fan of Toulouse FC, and alleged inconsistencies in the subsequent court case in Serbia.

The film had its broadcasting premiere in April 2013 as a part of Malagurski's TV show on Happy TV which also featured an interview with a man who claimed to have witnessed the event, but who had not been called to testify.

Malagurski's next film Belgrade, (also known as Belgrade with Boris Malagurski), a documentary about Belgrade, the capital of Serbia had its world premiere on 19 October 2013 at Sava Centar in Belgrade and was aired on Radio Television Serbia (RTS) on 20 October 2014.

The film features interviews with several prominent Belgraders, including tennis player Novak Djokovic.

The Weight of Chains 2 was released in 2014 as a part of the Serbian Film Festival at Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa.

It features interviews with Noam Chomsky, Carla Del Ponte, Mlađan Dinkić, Vuk Jeremić, Ivo Josipović, Slavko Kulić, Miroslav Lazanski, Michael Parenti, Oliver Stone, R. James Woolsey and others.

The film discusses the effects of neoliberal reforms on all aspects of life in the former Yugoslavia, from politics, economics, military, culture and education to the media.

Festival screenings include Raindance Film Festival and the Subversive Festival and others listed below, and it was broadcast by RTS.

In September 2017, Malagurski released a documentary film about Serbian monasteries in Kosovo called Kosovo: A Moment In Civilization, designed to oppose Kosovo's membership in UNESCO.

The film was released on September 15, 2017 in Paris, France.

The film was condemned by Kosovo's government.

Malagurski directed and produced a Serbian short film Lajkuj me milion puta.

It stars Nikola Kojo, Miloš Biković and Maja Šuša.

In December 2018, the film was added to the film and video catalog of the Library of United States Congress.

In July 2019, he earned his master's degree in film from the Staffordshire University.

The film was released on March 29, 2019 at the 66th Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Malagurski made the third part of The Weight of Chains film series which deals with how big business and political interest groups endanger peoples' health and very existence.

The film was released in Chicago on September 28, 2019, and features interviews with Jeffrey Sachs, Katrin Jakobsdottir, Noam Chomsky, Nele Karajlić and Danica Grujičić.

In December 2019, Malagurski announced that he would produce and direct a documentary film about the 2019 crisis in Montenegro.

The announcement came following clerical protests in Montenegro.

In November 2020, the official film trailer was released, featuring interviews with Amfilohije Radović, Zdravko Krivokapić, Matija Bećković and others.

The film had its world premiere in Belgrade in May 2021.

Malagurski directed the feature documentary film that chronicles the history of Serbs who live West of the Drina river, including an interview with Serbian film director Emir Kusturica.