8.4.2008
This year, for the fourth time in a row, T-Com started KulTurist project with the purpose of promoting and helping cultural events in Croatia. The joint name KulTurist encompasses T-Com sponsorships of large cultural manifestation. This year, the Company will spend more than HRK 4 mil for project realization in form financial aid and services. The list of festivals that T-Com will sponsor this year within KulTurist has been expanded in comparison to the last year and comprises nine projects: Vukovar film festival, Festival igranog filma u Puli, Splitsko ljeto, Libertas film festival, Međunarodni festival malih scena u Rijeci, Zagrebdox, Međunarodni dječji festival Šibenik i Cest is d'Best. T-Com will also continue to provide financial support to Ulysses Theater.
Ivana Šoljan, Member of the Management Board of T-HT and COO T-Com, presented the project in the presence of the Assistant to the Minister of Culture, Srećko Šestan and representative of Croatian cultural manifestations encompassed by KulTurist project.
“The very fact that across the entire country, from Dubrovnik to Vukovar, there are so many interesting and various festivals that we can be proud of makes me happy. This year we entered the fourth season of KulTurist and we can notice with pleasure that the popularity of film and theater festivals that are part of the project increases every year, which has been one of our goals”, said Ivana Šoljan during presentation of this year’s plans of T-Com related to investment in the Croatian culture.
By selecting which festivals to sponsor, T-Com as the leading telecommunications services provider, by means of KulTurist participates in organization of capital cultural manifestation across the country and shares a part of its market success with the society in which T-Com operates.
This year, the Zagreb street art festival “Cest is d’Best” became a part of KulTurist, for the first time, and Dječji festival in Šibenik joined KulTurist again.
T-Com supports all projects by providing different services that it developed and offers on the Croatian market. Therefore, during some of the festivals, T-Com will organize media coverage on its tportal, one of the most visited and most popular Internet portals in Croatia. Besides, T-Com will provide participants of the festivals with access to modern technologies such as broadband Internet access.
Each of the festivals was presented by its presiding person: Rade Šerbedžija (Kazalište Ulysses), Zlatko Vidačković (Festival igranog filma u Puli), Milan Štrljić (Splitsko ljeto), Igor Rakonić (Vukovar film festival), Mirjana Pećina (Libertas film festival), Nenad Šegvić (Međunarodni festival malih scena u Rijeci), Nenad Puhovski (ZagrebDox), Zlatko Petrović (Cest is d'Best), Dragan Zlatović (Međunarodni dječji festival Šibenik). A special guest was Rita Czapka, dramatist of the play MEDE:A, Burgtheater from Wien.