Private Project

Dear You

A maid, torn in between her passion and her duties to survive, wants to break free and to get out of reach from her landlord. Music leads all the way towards her freedom.

  • Lada Obradovic
    Director
  • David Tixier
    Co-Director
  • Ljubo Zdjelarevic
    Technical Director
    Kinoteka
  • Lada Obradovic
    Writer
  • David Tixier
    Script Supervisor
  • Lada Obradovic
    Producer
  • David Tixier
    Producer
  • Obradovic-Tixier Duo
    Producer
  • Andrea Solomun
    Key Cast
    "Landlord"
  • Iva Cevizovic
    Key Cast
    "Maid"
  • Lara Bubic
    Key Cast
    "White positive thought"
  • Josipa Kukor
    Key Cast
    "Black positive thought"
  • Lada Obradovic
    Co-starring
    Drummer
  • David Tixier
    Co-starring
    Pianist
  • Jana Piacun
    Scenographer
  • Tomislav Soban
    Illustrations' Design & Realisation
  • Raul Brzic
    Director of Photography
  • Ela Milkovic
    Make Up & Hair
    Hairstylist
  • Andreja Dubnjakovic
    Make Up & Hair
    Make-Up Artist
  • Raul Brzic
    Colorgrade
  • Maida Srabovic
    Editor
  • Vedran Stefan
    VFX
  • Hrvoje Prskalo
    SFX
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 25 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 21, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    18,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Croatia
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    5K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • London Music Video Festival 2020
    London
    United Kingdom
    July 1, 2020
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • YouTube Channel - Obradovic-Tixier Duo
    Distributor
    Country: France
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Lada Obradovic

Lada Obradovic is a Croatian jazz drummer and composer. After finishing bachelor drums performance program at Academy of Graz, Austria, she earned a masters degree of performance jazz drums at University of Bern in Switzerland. Besides French piano player David Tixier she is a co-leader of "Obradovic-Tixier Duo", multi awarded duo project born in 2016. In 2019 she got unanimously the price of the “best instrumentalist” during the “42nd National Contest of La Défense Jazz Festival”. She is involved in charity work, and in 2018 she started a new charity project using her own designed shoes “StartAs You Are”. Lada is a "Bay Custom Drums” and “TRX Cymbals” artist. She designed the first Jazz Series of TRX cymbals called CLS. In 2019, Lada started to work on a Netflix series “The Eddy” with the Oscar awarded movie director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) and the Grammy awarded composer Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson, Alanis Morissette) among others.

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Director Statement

The video-clip is a call to trespass beyond the fake ‘walls’ that powerful people in this world try to trap you in. Those barriers are always there.... yet only ourselves get to decide who we become, and we have to start any way we can, to succeed later on.