28 Facts About Boris Malagurski

Boris Malagurski is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, political commentator, television host, and activist.

Boris Malagurski's films include the documentary series The Weight of Chains.

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

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

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

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

In 2010, Boris 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.

Boris Malagurski co-directed, 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 Boris Malagurski's TV show on Happy TV which featured an interview with a man who claimed to have witnessed the event, but who had not been called to testify.

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

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

Boris 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.

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

Boris 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.

From 2013 to 2015, Boris Malagurski hosted Revolution, a weekly TV show on Happy TV.

Boris Malagurski alleged that Happy TV gave no official reason for the show's cancellation.

Boris Malagurski has appeared on RT, to comment on Balkan topics.

Boris Malagurski has written articles for the Politika daily newspaper and a political magazine Nova srpska politicka misao.

Boris Malagurski believes that "every government makes decisions in favor of the people only when in fear of the public reaction".

In October 2011, Boris Malagurski showed his film The Weight of Chains at the Jarinje barricades on the Kosovo-Serbia border, which he said was a show of support for the Serbs fighting for their rights in the disputed province.

In June 2012, Boris Malagurski took part in a protest in front of the Radio Television Serbia building, that called for an end to "organized media darkness" in Serbia and requested the airing of Boris Malagurski's film The Weight of Chains on Serbia's public broadcaster.

In front of 200 protesters, Boris Malagurski said that Aleksandar Tijanic, the director of RTS, had told him that despite positive reviews, The Weight of Chains couldn't be aired on RTS because it had already been aired on Happy TV, Boris Malagurski claimed only clips had been shown, which he corroborated with documents from Happy TV.

Boris Malagurski claimed that "Serbia is the only country in the region and in almost all of Europe, where The Weight of Chains has not been shown by the national public broadcaster".

Boris Malagurski has given speeches about Balkan political issues, specifically, on the future status of Kosovo.

Boris Malagurski replied in responses published by Vreme in March 2014 and by NSPM in April 2014.

In January 2013, after an interview for Boris Malagurski's TV show Revolution with Vesna Kostic of the World Bank office in Belgrade was broadcast, Kostic complained that Boris Malagurski had "forged" a conversation in the broadcast.

Boris Malagurski and his wife Ivana have a son Mateo, born in 2019, and a daughter Laura, born in 2022.

Boris Malagurski is the owner and CEO of Boris Malagurski Cinema, a film production company.