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{{Infobox
| name                = Fatamorgana
| localname           = Fatamorgana, družba za video in avdio produkcijo ter stike z javnostjo d.o.o.
| street              = Prečna ulica 6
| town                = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 685 686
| email               = fatamorgana@siol.net
| website             = 
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Matjaž Žbontar
| role                = Producer
| email               = fatamorgana@siol.net
| telephone           = 386 (0) 31 685 686 
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[[Fatamorgana]] is a company for film, television, video and audio production and public relations, established in [[established::1995]]. It was founded by film director [[Matjaž Žbontar]], considered to be an excellent documentarian, who received numerous awards for his films in ex-Yugoslavia and several international awards for his presentational films about Slovenia and film documentaries, most often made in the production of Fatamorgana.
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== History ==

After completing the secondary marine school in Piran and after two years of sailing around the world, [[Matjaž Žbontar]], born in 1950, studied architecture and film in Ljubljana. The double winner of the Mala Pula Award &ndash; the award of MAFAF festival, the festival of amateur film in ex-Yugoslavia, in the early 1970s, he continued his studies at the Film Academy in Zagreb, Croatia. During his 40 years of work, he shot many documentaries at home and abroad. In 1995, he founded the production company Fatamorgana. 


== Documentaries ==

Mostly in co-production with [[RTV Slovenia]], Fatamorgana has produced many documentary films related to the field of culture and art, with an emphasis on important Slovene artists and their works, for example, the painter [[Lojze Spacal]] (1907&ndash;2000), art historian [[Zoran Kržišnik]] (1920&ndash;2008), sculptor [[Negovan Nemec]] (1947&ndash;1987), architect [[Viktor Sulčič]] (1895&ndash;1973), film director and producer [[Ivan Bolle]], etc.


== Other projects ==

Fatamorgana also makes promotional films about Slovenia and its capital Ljubljana, and short experimental documentaries, for example, ''Whence Thy Beauty, Slovenia?'' (1999) by director [[Dušan Povh]] and ''Born to Die'' (2018) by director [[Matjaž Žbontar]], screened also at the [[Festival of Slovenian Film]] in 2018.


== External links ==
* [https://www.film-center.si/en/film-in-slovenia/films/organization/6143/fatamorgana-doo/ Fatamorgana on the Film-center.si portal]
* [https://www.film-center.si/en/film-in-slovenia/films/person/5041/matjaz-zbontar/ Filmography of Matjaž Žbontar on the Film-center.si portal]

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[[Category:Film producers]]
[[Category:Documentary film]]
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