Selection Committee
Josip Krunić
Josip Krunić was Croatian language teacher at “Antun i Stjepan Radić” Elementary School in Gunja in which he founded Multimedia Center Studio of Creative Ideas Gunja, as well as methodic of children film creation in general. Because of his outstanding work and results in Croatian language teaching as well as literature and contribution to Media culture classes, which he made interesting and suitable for acquiring basic knowledge of film and film art for elementary school students, he was awarded national lifetime achievement award “Ivan Filipović” in 2010. He finds inspiration for his films in current Croatian reality especially in rural areas clashing with big city life and comparisons of Croatian tradition and natural beauty with everyday life of children across Europe and the world.
Josip Krunić
Diana Nenadić, film critic
Diana is a film critic and writer, who has published numerous articles and critiques since the late 1980s in national newspapers, art and culture journals, Croatian Radio programs, edited volumes, film festival catalogues and cultural manifestations. She is editor of the journal Hrvatski Filmski Ljetopis, and was appointed chief editor of Hrvatski Filmski Savez in 2000, responsible for several film and DVD editions of Croatian experimental, documentary and fiction anthologies. She regularly curates retrospectives and programmes for experimental and documentary film festivals, and exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, and has served on festival juries. Since 2013, Diana is the president of the Croatian Film Critics Association, and she has been teaching film criticism at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb since 2008.
Diana Nenadić
Slaven Zečević, film editor
Slaven was born in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in 1967. He graduated film editing at Academy of Fine Arts in 1991. He was one of the founders of Kinoteka magazine in 1988 and at the same year he begins his professional film career. During 1990’s he publishes film essays and critics in numerous press. Now he writes scientific articles for Hrvatski filmski ljetopis and before, he had contributed to Film Lexicon by Miroslav Krleža Lexicography Department. He got his masters at Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies in Zagreb with his final work being in history of Croatian film. He edited films by Lukas Nola, Hrvoje Hribar, Neven Hitrec, Daniel Kušan and others.
Slaven Zečević