Mentions & Honors
Katherine was honored with Best Set Design at the 2011 Mountain Film Festival in Mammoth, California for “The Desperate.”
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NAZI HOSPITAL DRAMA ‘THE DESPERATE,’ IN SEPT. 28-30 WORLD PREMIERE IN L.A., CONFRONTS AHMADINEJAD’S QUESTIONING OF THE HOLOCAUST
Iranian Ex-Pat Ben-Hur Sepehr’s Oscar Short Candidate Pits Condemned Jewish Surgeon and Grief-Stricken German Army General in Battle of the Wills
LOS ANGELES (Sept. 25, 2009) — Iranian-Jewish writer-director Ben-Hur Sepehr will no doubt be opening old wounds with the release, as Yom Kippur ends, of his striking period film “The Desperate” about an imprisoned and eminent Jewish doctor who, on the eve of his scheduled execution in a concentration camp during World War II, is conscripted at gunpoint to perform emergency surgery on the son of a fearsome Nazi general…
While not boasting the multi-million dollar budget of Quentin Tarantino’s WWII-set “Inglourious Basterds,” “The Desperate” nonetheless displays meticulous attention to production design (Katherine Bulovic), art direction (Glen Anderson) and costuming (Erin Tanaka and associate producer Jimmy Williams), and attracted an international cast that includes Austrian Alexander Leeb as a pernicious commandant and Italy’s Leonardo Foti as the triage patient. Players also include Josie DiVincenzo as the overburdened operating room nurse and Kevin Oestenstad as the duty-torn lieutenant…
For more information and to view clips and production stills, visit www.TheDesperateTheMovie.com or www.ToleranceThroughKnowledge.org.
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Katherine Bulovic was interviewed in Sara Caldwell’s latest book.