On Friday, 27 September 2024, at 7 pm, we invite you to the opening of the exhibition and the screening of the award-winning animated film The Legend of Zlatorog. The event is organised in cooperation with the Triglav National Park to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Alpine Conservation Park.
The exhibition and the film will be on show until 25 October 2024.
ABOUT THE FILM:
Young filmmakers Lea Vučko (script, direction, animation) and Damir Grbanović (editing, production) have created a beautiful and successful, internationally award-winning animated film, The Legend of Zlatorog, which continues to reap laurels at festivals around the world.
In addition to the Vesna Award for Best Animated Film 2022, it has also received the DSAF Award, the Slovenian Animated Film Association Award for Best Art Design, an Honourable Mention from the Jury at the 17th Ljubljana Mountain Festival, the Best Animated Film Award at the Nepal Film Festival, a Special Mention from the Jury at SEEfest in Los Angeles, the Best Slovenian Film Award from the Slovenian Film Publicists’ Association, and others.
The film continues to travel to various film festivals around the world, which is often the only place to see short films. An exhibition about the making of the film is therefore a unique opportunity to present it in a local environment that is closely linked to its content.
The exhibition presents the making of the short animated film, the invisible background – the whole storyboard, sketches, photographs from real locations in Trento, taken during the planning of the film, the drawing technique… everything that happened during the four-year production of the 14-minute-long film, which is made up of more than 10,000 hand-drawn drawings in digital technique (source: Triglav National Park).
100th anniversary of the establishment of the Alpine Conservation Park, the predecessor of the Triglav National Park
In 2024, the Triglav National Park, the Julian Alps and Slovenian nature conservation as a whole will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the lease agreement establishing the Alpine Conservation Park, the predecessor of the Triglav National Park. This was an important milestone in the history of the development of nature conservation and the efforts to protect part of the Julian Alps in the form of Slovenia’s only national park.
Already 2 years after the establishment of the Alpine Conservation Park in 1926, Fran Jesenko wrote in the newspaper Jutro – at that time still quite unofficially – Triglav National Park, giving the article the meaningful title: The Kingdom of the Zlatorog. Since the beginning, nature protection in the Julian Alps has been linked to the Legend of the Zlatorog. Both in ancient times and today, it reminds us that certain limits of greed must not be crossed by man in nature for his own good.
The Alpine Conservation Park covered 1,400 hectares, while today’s Triglav National Park covers almost 84,000 hectares, or four percent of Slovenia’s territory.
The 100th anniversary is being celebrated under the slogan “Conservation is Existence”. The slogan reminds us that the existence of natural and cultural values, or their preservation for future generations, is only possible by protecting them. This is about striking a balance between conservation, protection and tradition, development, between locals and visitors.
The President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr Nataša Pirc Musar, took over the honourary patronage of the 100th anniversary celebrations.
