Zrinka Cvitešić

Zrinka Cvitešić, (says so somewhere in a…) is an academically-trained actress. She was born on 18 July, 1979, in Karlovac. In addition to mischief and pranks, she spent a lot of time going to numerous dance classes, attending music school and drama classes. Seeing their child is a geek, her parents enroll her in a language-oriented gymnasium, and upon finishing it she flees to Zagreb. There, while searching for the music, dance or drama academy, she first stumbles through the doors of the drama academy where she receives her degree in 2002. She has performed in a great number of plays (PLANET ART: Rabbit Hole; HNK: Opera za tri groša, Romeo and Juliet, Octopussy, Idemo na more; Komedija: Little Shop of Horrors, Nemoćnik u pameti, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Klupko; TEATAR ITD: Kanibali; KAZALIŠTE KUFER: Karlovac, kraj na zemlji; KAZALIŠTE VIROVITICA: Faustus …), as well as in films: “The Big Cleaning”, “La femme musketaire”, “Early Awakening”, “I Love You”. In addition, she had leading roles in the films “Horseman” by Branko Ivanda and “What Is a Man Without a Moustache?” directed by Hrvoje Hribar.

Andrei Dascalescu

Born in Piatra Neamt, Romania, in 1984; graduated Film University in Bucharest, Editing and Sound class in 2008; worked as a Studio Manager for BBC Romania and as Editor and Sound Engineer on many films, including Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (as Walter Murch's assistant); produced and directed FLY, a 2 minute feature, selected in 13 festivals and awarded two times; organizes the short film festival Filmul de Piatra in his hometown, Piatra Neamt;

Made his successful feature-length documentary debut with Constantin and Elena, awarded First Appearance Award at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Best Debut Award in Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) 2009, nominated Best Documentary at the Gopo Awards (Romanian Film Industry Awards) and selected in numerous festivals world-wide. Self-produced, directed, shot and edited, Constantin and Elena is the first ever Romanian - Spanish film co-production.

Joško Marušić

Joško Marušić was born in 1952 in Split. There he attended the classical gymnasium and later graduated at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. Since then he has been professionally involved in several art media (comic, caricature, illustration, literature, film production and television, theory and criticism of animation), but the focus of his interest has always been animation.

Between 1982 and 1989 he worked as editor for the Zagreb Television. He was twice the artistic director of the Studio for animated film of Zagreb Film company, first time between 1987 and 1990 and the second time from 1995 to 1998. From 1993 to 1998 he was the president of the Croatian Independent Artists’ Association.

Between 1992 and 1998 Marušić was the artistic director of the World Festival of Animated Film, Animafest Zagreb, while from 2000 to 2006 he was the head of the festival’s board.

In 1999 he founded the Department for Animated Film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (today the Department for Animated Film and New Media) where he teaches three courses and works as a mentor. He is a guest lecturer at several European universities and has been a member of many juries at short film festivals.

Joško Marušić has published several books while his art work has been shown at four big exhibitions.

He is best known as the author of animated films for which he received awards at various prestigious festivals of animation (Annecy, Zagreb, Varna, Ottawa, Oberhausen, Madrid, Shanghai, etc.).

His most well-known films are: Iznutra i izvana (Inside and Out), Perpetuo (Perpetuo), Tamo (Over There), Lice straha (Face of Fear), Kod kuće je najbolje (Home is the Best), Miss Link (Miss Link), U susjedstvu grada (In the City Neighborhood), etc.

His films Riblje oko (Fish Eye), which was a Yugoslavian nominee for an Oscar, and Neboder (Skyscraper) were screened at the London Film Festival among the best films made that year. The critic Giannalberto Bendazzi incuded his film I love you too… among the 84 best films in the total history of animation.

He lives and works in Zagreb.

Diana Nenadić

Diana Nenadić (1962, Split, Croatia) graduated from the Faculty of Political Science, Zagreb, in 1986. During her university studies and upon graduating she worked as a journalist and film critic. Her film reviews and essays have appeared in several Croatian newspapers and journals such as: Slobodna Dalmacija, Nedjeljna Dalmacija, Kinoteka, Stil, Vijenac, Quorum, Kolo, Zarez, Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, as well as on the shows on the First (Licem u lice) and Third programs (Filmoskop, Filmološki ogled, Zoofon) of Croatian radio-television and on almanacs and shows on the Croatian television (Film-video-film). In 1997 and 2006 she received the Vladimir Vuković film critics’ award.

She is the head of the publishing department of the Croatian Film Clubs’ Association (since 2000) and has founded several film publications and edited numerous books/publications in the field of film.

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal

Ahmed Muztaba Zamal is a film society activist in Bangladesh. Presently he is the Secretary General of Rainbow Film Society (a leading film society in the country). He is the founder and festival director of the Dhaka International Film Festival. This is the first ever private sector full length feature film festival in Bangladesh held since 1992. In 1994, he founded the Bangladesh Chapter of FIPRESCI and was elected Secretary General of International Film Critics Association of Bangladesh – IFCAB.

He has had the opportunity to participate in many important film festivals in international Fipresci and Netpac juries in festivals such as Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno and Pusan, etc. He runs a quarterly cine-magazine Celluloid.