Gordana Vunjak Novaković, jedina članica Njujorške akademije nauka The only female member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Gordana Vunjak Novaković
that the famous G.I. Joe action figure toy was mod- elled after the likeness of Mihajlo Pejić [Colonel Mitch- ell Paige]. Tesla Nation also presents Professor Vladimir Bulović, who is currently one of the world’s leading sci- entists in the field of nanotechnology… Personal stamp and Nikola Tesla From the start I wanted that story to be personal. e angle of presentation was their personal first-per- son perspective: “I am this and that. My parents are him and her. I come from there”. Likewise, Tesla’s appear- ances, through the interpretation of actor Jack Dimić, actually come (via voice over) from his autobiography. e legs that travel through America are my own legs and those of all those heroes who passed, throughout all these years, from their own areas or from one part of America to another. We are all one I would repeat what Tesla says in the first sentence of the film: “We are all one. People are interconnected by invisible forces”. We all represent one being here on planet Earth and we are all connected in some way. If we try to understand it in that way and to understand the person next to us, regardless of where they come from
and what their religious or other beliefs are, to under- stand them at the level of that belonging to one being, then boundaries are irrelevant. en the opportunity emerges for the creation of some truly wondrous new world that transcends even the most beautiful dreams of personal realisation. Either such a world will be cre- ated or we, as humanity, will disappear. Open doors of America During the course of this project I also became a citizen who came from Serbia and worked in America. My personal journey helped me to further understand all these people. America is a country that was built on individual values, and things progress when you get a chance to show yourself. One door opens another… e U.S. is a country that was built by all the peoples of the world, but that also means that the competition is glob- al. In a country that exports its films all over the world, I found space to provide my own contribution. Oscar, Harvard, Alexandria… Apart from being officially nominated for the 2020 Best Documentary Feature Oscar, this film is also in- cluded in the world’s most important archives, such as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Harvard University Library, Yale University Library, New York Public Library, e National Library of Russia in St. Pe- tersburg, Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the world’s oldest and largest archive, and many others. e film al- so had successful premiere screenings in Boston, Cleve- land and Pittsburgh, where it won the Spirit Award and Nikola Tesla’s World Award, while it has also been shown in Washington, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Sydney etc.
Mihajlo Pupin bio
je naučnik, pronalazač, profesor na Univerzitetu Kolumbija... Mihajlo Pupin was a scientist, inventor, professor at Columbia University ...
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