Sarajevo Film Festival announced yesterday the attendance of one of today's most renowned actors, Steve Buscemi. Buscemi returns to Sarajevo this year to present his new film and to share a part of his extensive experience with young and talented actors, as one of the lecturers at the 1st Sarajevo Talent Campus.

Alongside from great talent that he showed in many outstanding roles over the years, Buscemi is also accomplished screenwriter and director. Attesting to this is his film Interview, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. Interview is a remake of a film by controversial director Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004. Viewers in Sarajevo will have the opportunity to see this film within the Heineken Open Air Programme, and will also have the chance to meet Buscemi, who will introduce his film, in which he also plays a journalist interviewing a film star, portrayed by Sienna Miller.

Sarajevo Film Festival has already hosted Steve Buscemi in its sixth edition, in 2000, when he was the focus of the Tribute To... Programme. The outstanding actor returns to Sarajevo this year to present his new film, but also to share a part of his extensive experience with young and talented actors, as one of the lecturers at the 1st Sarajevo Talent Campus.

Steve Buscemi has developed a career in film by portraying diverse and very singular characters. He has conveyed all his characters to the big screen with such uniqueness, that each and every one of his roles remains unforgettable. 

His most significant roles were in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, Alexander Rockwell's In the Soup, Martin Scorcese's New York Stories, followed by Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and Fargo, by the brothers Coen, as well as in The Big Lebowski, Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, John Carpenter's Escape From L.A., Quentin Tarrantino's Reservoir Dogs and Robert Altman's Kansas City. Buscemi has also had numerous cameo roles in films such as Rising Sun, The Hudsucker Proxy and Pulp Fiction.