The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has chosen Ivan Goran-Vitez’ Extracurricular to be the country’s Oscar nominee in the category of Best International Feature Film. It was chosen from 6 films. Goran-Vitez’ film is about a recently divorced father who, incensed at not being able to be with his daughter on her ninth birthday, bursts into her …
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Croatian director Dalibor Matanić has begun shooting his new TV series, The Last Socialist Artefact. Based on Robert Perišić’s novel No-Signal Area, the series is produced by the Kinorama company, in co-production with Sense Production, Perfo Production and Citizen Jane. The TV series follows two “urban survivors” from Zagreb, Oleg and Nikola. A mysterious colonel …
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On September 21st Chris Marcich, CEO of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre was elected to the board of the European Film Agency Directors association (EFAD). EFAD members are government or government-associated public bodies in charge of national funding for the audiovisual sector. Each year they fund various projects totalling around three billion euros through subsidies and …
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August 29th to September 4th was the week of the 67th Pula Film Festival. 16 films were in competition for the Golden Arenas. Among them Danilo Šerbedžija’s Tereza37. Trailer The script, written by Croatian actress Lana Barić, is about a woman married to a sailor for 10 years. After her fourth miscarriage, and under pressure …
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NEM Dubrovnik is the most important Croatian trade event specializing in the television industry. Although planned as usual for June in Dubrovnik, it will not be held this year because of the uncertain situation brought about by COVID-19. The event has therefore had to be postponed. It will now be held from December 9th to …
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Scheduled to run from June 8th to 13th, Animafest Zagreb, the World Festival of Animated Film, has been postponed. With the Coronavirus crisis and the earthquake which hit Zagreb, the situation in Croatia has made the event impossible. Although the festival’s artistic director has said a new date will be chosen, it has not yet …
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The sixteenth ZagrebDox Pro, a training programme for film professionals with documentary projects, took place online from March 15th to 23rd. The event was for films at different stages of development and production and included a pitching forum, individual meetings with film industry representatives and various masterclasses. There were four awards, two of them going …
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