My goal is to produce a documentary about Serbia’s endangered cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohia, which has been consistently neglected and decaying in the international community’s presence for 25 years, says Ninoslav Randjelovic, filmographer who documented saga of Kosovo and Metohia Serbs in his numerous tv documentaries.
He want to document a nation’s endangered cultural heritage, a global issue transcending borders. It is intended for a wider audience worldwide as a testimony to a problem for which the international community must offer a civilizational solution.
Randjelovic hope five or ten organizations or individuals will have the ear, desire, and capacity to support this project.
In cooperation with international academic institutions worldwide and associations of Christian organizations, this document will be presented at international academic forums, important cultural institutions, and political institutions to highlight the unresolved problems of human security and threats to world cultural heritage in the region.
PRODUCTION PERIOD:
APRIL – MAY 2025
FUNDRAISING PERIOD:
SEPT. 2024 – MARCH 2025
REQUIRED FUNDS:
45,000 euros or $50,000
(Explained in detail on website https://kosovohereandnow.org
We hope that many of you who visit the site will want to spread further information about it.
The fact that the production of this type of project depends on the goodwill of some individuals indicates one of the essential aspects of the unsolved problem of people’s suffering and the destruction of the world’s cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohia in the presence of the international army, police and formed institutions of Kosovo.
One of those aspects is a 25-year absence of the willingness of the Serbian state institutions and Serbian media to at least consistently document this problem; media witnesses it and constantly appeal through the Serbian government’s diplomatic missions to the international institutions in charge of the region to have this issue solved.
Also, the world’s media doesn’t pay attention to this problem, most likely because this is exactly the problem pointing to the 25-year failure of the international community to achieve the basic goal of its mission in Kosovo and Metohia – the protection of the basic human rights of everyone who lives in Kosovo and Metohia.
Hence, documentary film archive of Mr. Randjelovic, as well as the most recently produced video document, is a unique testimony of a problem that has been lasting for a quarter of a century.
On the other hand, since he is not able to finance the production costs of the proposed project by himself, your help is necessary.•
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Dear Serbs, brothers and sisters,
You have not heard from me in a long time. As you know, I was involved with RAS, the International Serbian Organization, and the Kosovo Kitchen Project. We have collected funds in the diaspora for the soup kitchen for many years and fed many Serbian people in our province, Kosovo and Metohia. With my amazing patriot friends, we have organized a photo exhibit of the photography taken by the Serbian children in KIM about their daily life in the province. We presented it to the Washington DC photography crowds in the middle of the capital of the U.S. These were just some of our projects.
We delivered the money to the soup kitchens in KIM so that everyone who donated knew their donations had reached their intended place. We also provided medicines for people in Orahovac.
Since then, we have witnessed how we slowly but surely lose our province daily, and our people there are fighting to survive. They are begging for help. The situation is terrible. Many are packing and leaving again because nobody is fighting for them anymore.
No jobs, no more Serbian I.D.s, and Serbian institutions are getting taken over by the Albanians.
The Serbian government claims it is doing everything it can, but it has given up on Kosovo and Metohia.
My friend Ninoslav Randjelovic, a documentary filmmaker, is one of the rare people I can trust never to give up and bring results. Some of you will remember RAS showing his films in Washington, D.C. His movies about Kosovo and Metohia, which he made from 1998 until 2007, showed us the picture of life in our province, the life of the Serbs living behind the barbed wire, fighting for their lives every day.
Ninoslav is starting a new project. He will film a documentary about the changes that have been taking place in the region and people’s lives since 2008.
This film will be an essential document for all of us in the future. Many people like me, Serbian patriots, will use this film to fight for our people’s rights and to regain the province. I believe that everything is possible if we all stand together.
Our Serbian government has given up on their diaspora. They don’t know how powerful and connected we are and that we can do so much. We have offered our help and knowledge all these years, and they have not responded.
It is time to fight for our Serbia, Holy Kosovo and Metohia again.
Please look at this project, look at what Ninoslav has done in the past, and watch some of his films.
I beg you to consider donating funds to produce his film, which will help all of us.
I hope we will all wake up and try our best not to be remembered as a generation that lost Kosovo and Metohia.
Please donate directly to Ninoslav; you can see his website’s descriptions and details.
https://kosovohereandnow.org/kosovo-project-proposal
He will be risking his life to accomplish his goal. For the rest of us, this is a small price to pay to help our homeland.
If you know a great Serbian patriot worldwide who cares deeply about this cause, please forward this letter to them. If you don’t feel comfortable with that, please send me the contacts, and I will do that for you. This endeavor will be dangerous.
Please support Ninoslav.
This letter is in English so we can reach a wider audience. Please forward it to your Greek friends, Cypriots, and people who stand with the Serbs.
Ninoslav’s website is in both English and Serbian.
Kosovo is and always will be Serbian.
