Zoran Savić is currently general manager of Blitz-Cinestar Serbia.
Zoran Savić was born on June 23rd in Belgrade, Serbia. Elementary school as well as high school he finished in Belgrade. He graduated at Faculty for Civil Engineering at University of Belgrade. Occasionaly worked at Belgrade’s Fair as a supervisor for certain exhibiting areas, and at Belgrade’s marathon in welcome service. During sanctions worked as liaison for athleets at airports in Budapest (Hungary ) and Timisoara (Romania) where he welcomed runners and provided them with Yugoslav visas and organized transport to Belgrade.
At 1992. started to work for Serbian film distribution company „Pro Vision“ as head of acquisition and international relations. From 1994. to 2000. he attended most important film markets, mostly at Cannes and in Milan.
In the year 2000. he received offer from two strongest film distributors in the region to establish entirely new distribution company in Serbia, which would represent several major studios in distribution of home entertainment content. Those companies were Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM and Dreamworks. In the year 2001. Millennium Film & Video was established and later became licensee for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment. Since 2001. Millennium Film distributed over 2.200 titles on VHS, DVD and BluRay discs. Among those titles there were Titanic, Gladiator, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Godfather, Spiderman, Shrek, Madagascar and many others. Among other independent companies, Millennium Film also distributed contents made by National Geographic and BBC.
In December 2013, Millennium Film & Video changed its name to Blitz Film & Video and became officially part of the strongest film distribution company in the region. As of January 1st 2014. Blitz became Warner Bros. license for theatrical distribution in Serbia and Montenegro. In June 2015 Blitz Film & Video changed its name to Blitz-Cinestar, and its main activity from film distribution to film exhibition. From that moment, in the period od one year, Blitz–Cinestar opened three modern multiplex cinemas in Pančevo, Zrenjanin and Novi Sad and became one of the most prominent film exhibition companies in Serbia.
Zoran Savić was one of the members of the first Steering Committee of the Film Center Serbia, state body which task was to revitalize Serbian cinematography. In two terms he was chairman of JAPA (Yugoslav Anti-piracy Association) during period of intense work in establishing legal framework which would enable prosecution and sentencing street-vendor and internet piracy. He was member of the Committee for protection of Intellectual property within American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Serbia. Along with representatives from other companies (Microsoft, P&G, JTI International, Autodesk, etc.) he participated in advocacy of protection of the intellectual property, co-organized 10 regional conferences dedicated to IP protection as well as numerous trainings for police enforcement, market and tax inspectors, prosecutors and judges which enabled them to better understand and handle issues of protection of intellectual property.