Surviving Earth - SXSW - The Industry

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So we are here with Slavko Sobin and Thea Gayich,

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Cool. All right. So we are here with Slavko Sobin and Thea Gayich, who is the writer, director and actor team behind Surviving Earth, which actually I just saw and I really loved. It's a really kind of beautiful, touching, intense kind of, you know.

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story and I really wanted to ask Sophia I know this is a very kind of personal story for you and I wanted to see like why you wanted to tell kind of your story

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because I know it can be very challenging to do that yeah of course I think it's it's kind of processing that obviously it's about my father and it's I guess I had the whole moment of processing the reality of his life after he was gone and like the things that

Surviving Earth - SXSW

The Industry

Mar 11, 2025

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Surviving Earth, which just premiered at SXSW, is the rawest of personal stories.

I sat down with the lead Slavko Sobin and writer/director Thea Gajić to unwind how she forged this ultra specific tale of her father (played by Sobin), whose passionate spirit is weighted down by addiction.

Here’s the synopsis:

Based on a true story, SURVIVING EARTH follows Vlad, a talented harmonica player who arrived in the UK after fleeing the conflict in Yugoslavia. Now a counsellor living in Bristol, Vlad has brought his love for Balkan music to the city with a band formed with his friends from work. As the band strives for success, Vlad is revisited by the traumas of his past and his carefully rebuilt world starts to fracture, jeopardising the relationships with those closest to him and particularly with his daughter, Maria.

This is Gajić’s feature debut.

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