Documentary Editor · Montréal
Two decades editing award-winning documentaries on social, economic and climate justice, broadcast around the world, with more than 200 festival selections.
On the festival circuit
Plus 14 more festival awards and mentions across these films.
Documentary Editor · Montréal
I’m Boban Chaldovich, a documentary editor based in Montréal. For twenty years I have edited feature and short documentaries, most of them about social, economic and climate justice, with independent filmmakers, broadcasters, grassroots groups and the National Film Board of Canada.
The films have been broadcast in many countries, selected at more than 200 international festivals, and recognized with more than 20 awards and mentions, including a Hot Docs Audience Award, a Prix Gémeaux and a special mention at IDFA. Along the way I have also coloured, animated and supervised post-production, so I can take a film from the first assembly to the final deliverables.
Kind words
“Boban is an extremely hard working, resourceful individual with a thirst to learn. He can handle very stressful conditions without having them affect his output. If he doesn’t know something, he’ll figure it out.”
“I worked on two documentaries with Boban Chaldovich. I appreciated his professionalism, his dedication, his artistic talent and his technical skills. I recommend him without hesitation.”
“Extremely focused, timely and skilled. Eager and creative. Very current and up to date skill set.”
Beyond the edit
Most days I shape other people’s films in the cutting room. These are the stories I’m telling myself: a short film I directed, plus a short documentary and a screenplay, both in development.
Directing · short documentary · In development · produced by Amy Miller, Wide Open Exposure
After the deadly collapse of the Novi Sad station canopy, a former MMA champion turned opposition councillor becomes a target of the Serbian state. A short political thriller about what dissent costs a man and his family.
Writing · short fiction · Screenplay · written to direct myself
At a powerful man’s funeral, his brother gives the eulogy wearing the dead man’s gold Rolex, stopped at 8:23. Before the grave is filled, the family decides what the watch is worth. A short fiction film in Serbian.
Directing · short fiction · Director, editor, camera
A short fiction film I wrote, directed and edited: one morning, one apartment, and a man who can’t quite wake up from the night before.
Off the timeline · 30 years on a loaded bicycle
When I’m not in front of a timeline I’m usually on a loaded bicycle: I have been bikepacking for thirty years, and long days on the road are where a lot of my thinking happens. I also build websites and small tools, including this one.
Contact
Tell me about your project: what it is, where it stands and when you need it. I usually reply within a day or two.
Based in Montréal · working remotely or on site · AQTIS 514 IATSE
Series, Fabienne Colas Foundation.
Six portraits of Cubans trace LGBTQ history on the island, from clandestine drag shows to the HIV crisis.
An impoverished couple is pushed by undercover agents into a terrorist bombing. A film about police infiltration, broken rules and unchecked power in Canada.
Awards
Awards
Awards
Can young lawyers afford to practise socially conscious law? A lawyer and director asks activists and students, in the middle of Ontario’s access-to-justice crisis.
A Kwakwaka’wakw girl in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside refuses a colonial school system. Her search for another way of learning honours her culture and her mother.
Awards
Awards
In the hospitals and streets of blockaded Gaza, doctors, water workers and waste pickers keep a city alive. A story of extraordinary people and basic public services.
Awards
Three communities, in Colombia, Germany and Gaza, answer economic and environmental emergencies with peace, renewable energy and collective action.
Awards
A hard-hitting look at sustainable small-scale farming and the urgent call to end corporate land grabs, told by the communities fighting to keep their land.
Awards
Dams, incinerators and palm oil plants earn carbon credits while communities pay the price. Across four continents, the film asks whether carbon offsets truly cool the planet.
Awards
Canada, the world’s good guy? From NATO to Afghanistan, the film follows the interests and profits behind war, peacekeeping and development.
Awards
Inside Ukrainian detention centres, refugees and migrants who failed to cross into the EU describe the cost of Europe’s borders.
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