Luka Hrgović
Luka Hrgović was born in 1986 in Zagreb. After finishing the School for Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, he graduated in Animated Film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is active in filmmaking, animation and short video forms. He participated in many film festivals and had gallery exhibitions. Out of the many awards he won, the Chancellor’s Award for the feature film “Etude” in 2011 stands out.
He has been in a friendly relationship with the Youth Film Festival since high school days, when he won his first prizes, and since the FRFF staff discovered him as a previous laureate several years ago, they have held him close, and this is his fourth year in a row with a role in the FRFF.
Luka Hrgović
Frano Mašković
Frano was born in 1978 in Dubrovnik. He graduated in Acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and he is a permanent member of the Zagreb Youth Theater ensemble. He has cooperated with many directors: Tea Alagić, Tijana Zinajić, Paolo Magelli, Ivica Buljan, Branko Brezovec, Rene Medvešek, Dino Mustafić. In 2007 he cooperated with Jan Fabre at the Requiem for Metamorphosis project (Troubleyn) for the Salzburger Festspiele.
Frano Mašković
Alison McCloskey
From the age of 15, Alison developed a passion for cinema by attending the annual Cork Film Festival, showcasing the best of independent world cinema, documentary and short films. After graduating from art school, she moved to London, where she discovered opportunities to study screenwriting, animation and Super 8 filmmaking.
She began her career in film education in 2002 as the main tutor and coordinator for Youth Animation and Media, running free filmmaking workshops for young people in South East London. Under her leadership, YAM facilitated the production of over 150 short films by local children and created a festival “Yam on Rye”, one of the first festivals showcasing the work of young people in London. She later became the Director of the Flipside Youth Film Festival, training a team of youth volunteers to enable them to plan, curate and present screenings independently. Since 2012, Alison has been the Project Manager of the British Film Institute’s Future Film Academy, a talent development program for aspiring filmmakers aged 16-19. Students learn about the script to screen process of filmmaking through a series of masterclasses with industry professionals. They learn how to produce film in a variety of formats, from Super 8 and 16mm film to Black Magic URSA digital cinema cameras. She also teaches young people how to get funding for their films and plan their journey through distribution and eventually finding audiences.
In her work with young people, Alison tries to encourage a regard for cinema as an art form and as a vehicle for personal and social enrichment. She emphasizes the responsibility of young filmmakers to innovate and reinvent cinema in the midst of a commercially led mainstream industry and to question the purpose for the projects they undertake in this context.
Alison McCloskey