DANA BUDISAVLJEVIĆ (Zagreb, 1975) graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Department of Film and TV Editing. She has worked as editor, production assistant, and organiser of film festivals. Her directorial debut was the documentary Straight A’s (Factum, 2004), and she has gained popularity with a family film on coming out Family Meals (2012). She has worked as a producer on Slumbering Concrete by Saša Ban, films I Like That Super Most the Best by Eva Kraljević, Then I See Tanja by Juraj Larotić, and others. The Diary of Diana B. is her first feature film, which premiered at Pula Film Festival 2019, receiving the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Editor, Best Score, as well as the Audience Award. |
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VESNA MORT (1943) is aproducer. She has worked with TVZ from 1976 as organiser or assistant to directors on numerous TV dramas and series, and was employed as a producer of the drama programme from 1986 to 2008. She is the producer of numerous TV films, TV series, and co-productions, including: Countess Dora (Z. Berković), Aloa – Festivity of theWhores (L. Zafranović), The Time of Warriors (D. Šorak), Klopka (T. Radić), Sisters (B. Ivanda), Egzekutor (B. Gamulin), Pont Neuf (Ž. Senečić), The Third Woman (Z. Tadić),The Dead Point (S. Tribuson), Each Time We Part Away (L. Nola), Will Not End Here (V. Brešan), Croatian Cathedrals, Between Zagllul and Zachariasand The Tranquilizer Gun (H. Hribar), Christmas in Vienna, Heart Is Not Trendy and Queen of the Night (B. Schmidt). She was the production supervisor of the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest held in Zagreb. She received the Croatian Radiotelevision annual award in 2003. |
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KSENIJA MARINKOVIĆ (Virovitica, 1966) is a Croatian theatre, TV and film actress. She graduated in acting from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 1988, and joined the ensemble of the Zagreb Youth Theatre in 1989, where she has been in some fifty productions. She acted in numerous films (F20, The Constitution, Vegetarian Cannibal, Metastases,Behind the Glass, etc.), as well as TV series and dramas (Black&White World, Lud, zbunjen, normalan, Rest in PeaceBums and Princesses, Have a Break, You Earned It, etc). In 2016, she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress at Pula Film Festival, for the role of Vesna in Zrinko Ogresta’s On the Other Side, and the Golden Arena for Best Supporting Actress for the film Just Between Us by Rajko Grlić in 2010. From the 2015/2016 season, she has been the leading actress of Drama with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. |
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DANKO VUČINOVIĆ (Zagreb, 1974) graduated from the Department of Cinematography of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 2016. Awards: Pula Film Festival 2014: Breza Award for Best Debutant, Nikola Tanhofer Award of the Croatian Film Association 2018 for the feature film The Mystery of Green Hill, Nikola Tanhofer Award of the Croatian Film Association 2019 for the TV series The Paper season 2.Select filmography (director of photography): The Paper (2016, 2018, 2019), A Brief Excursion (2017), The Mystery of Green Hill (2017), Zagreb Stories Vol. 3 (segments Orah and Munja, 20 |
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LINA KEŽIĆ (1953) is an editor and journalist. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In 1976 she started work at TVZ as reviewer and language editor at the news programme, and later on as a journalist. She was the editor of the culture, science and education newsroom at Croatian Television for a number of years. She was the editor of the shows Pozivnica, kronike ljetnih kazališnih i filmskih festivala and Vijesti iz kulture. She is the author of informative documentary films on D. Tadijanović, M. Držić, A. Sorić, Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts V. Žmegač, and many others. She has worked on numerous shows of Croatian Radiotelevision Channels 1 and 4, and has reported live from cultural events - from Dubrovnik to Pula, Frankfurt to Moscow and Johannesburg. In 2002, she received the Croatian Radiotelevision Award for her documentary show 30 godina studentskog štrajka 1971. She retired in 2018. |