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ZVONIMIR JURIĆ
Zvonimir Jurić was born in Osijek in 1971. He studied film and TV direction at the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. In 1996. his feature film ‘The Sky Bellow Osijek’ received The Octavian Award and Best Director Award at Croatian Cinema Days (CCD) as well as the Rector’s Award. His documentary ‘Jurić: Tvrđa’ wins Best Documentary Award at Motovun Film Festival in 2000. and yet another documentary ‘The Black Could Stand it, Can I?’ was awarded Best Editing Award at CCD. In 2003. he made his debut feature ’ The One Who Will Stay Unnoticed’ and in 2004. he codirected ‘Sex, Booze and Short Fuse’.

NENAD POLIMAC
Film critic since 1972., (in the following newspapers and magazines: ‘Studentski list’, ‘Prolog’ and ‘Omladinski tjednik’, ‘Vjesnik’ – ‘VUS’ , ‘Start’ and ‘Danas’, ‘Film’). From 1978 to 1984 he collaborated with the film department of the Zagreb Television, among others in the popular show ‘3-2-1 go’. Together with Vladimir Tomić, in 1989 he edited the show ‘Modern Times’, and a year later he edited much more popular show ‘Vertigo’, recently reintroduced under the title ‘Vertigo 2’. He was one of the founders of the magazine Globus at the end of the 1990s and later of Europa Press Holding. In 1995 he was one of the founders of the magazine Nacional. He now writes for the daily Jutarnji list.

KRISTIJAN MILIĆ
He has been actively engaged in directing music video clips and commercials since 2000. In 2001 he graduated as a film and TV director. In 2002 he finished his short feature ‘Safe House’ (a part of the omnibus ‘24 Hours’) which was awarded on Pula Film Festival for the best debutant. In 2007 he made ‘The Living and the Dead’ / ‘Živi i mrtvi’ based on the script and the novel by Josip Mlakić. That same year he won 8 Golden Arenas on Pula Film Festival (among others for best director) as well as Golden Camera 300 on the film festival in Bitola.