Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on career-defining film 'Murina'
Filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic\u2019s debut feature \u201cMurina\u201d won best first film at Cannes last year. Though it may seem like a story of instant success, the Croatian director says she spent years educating and establishing herself.\xa0When something happens \u201cout of the blue and overnight, it's actually ten years of work behind it,\u201d she explains.\xa0Kusijanovic had worked at different film companies and affirms those connections helped her finance the 2017 short film \u201cInto the Blue.\u201d The path to fund \u201cMurina,'' she says, seemed easier, as she presented RT Features with only a letter of intent.\xa0 \u201cEverybody already knew me, how I am in business, so I was already familiar to all of these people that were involved in the project,\u201d she says. Now, Kusijanovic discusses her love for theater and the path that took her to co-writing and directing the coming-of-age drama \u201cMurina.\u201d\xa0But first, movie theaters will start to feel the summer cool-off, with moviegoers banking on streaming services\u2019 shows, including the first $1-billion series. Plus, former Disney executive John Lasseter returns. Kim Masters discusses with guest-host Lucas Shaw from Bloomberg.