Dina Pokrajac is a film critic, curator and programmer based in Zagreb. She majored in Journalism and Political Science at the Faculty of Political Science and is a PHD candidate at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Since 2019 she works for Restart as the manager of Dokukino KIC – a unique cinema in the region, dedicated exclusively to documentary cinema. Since 2022 she also runs Restart’s educational programme Masterclass. She is the director of Subversive Film Festival and has curated numerous interdisciplinary projects combining film and critical theory. Winner of the Vladimir Vuković Award for Best New Film Critic in 2017. She participated in Sarajevo Talents 2020 and Berlinale Talents 2021. Member of juries and selection committees at several domestic and international festivals (including Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, Doclisboa, LIFFE and Art film Fest Košice). She also works as a translator, having translated Lewis Mumford’s Art and Technics, Flannery O’Connor’s Mystery and Manners and Laura Mulvey’s Afterimages among others. She is the chief editor at Scarabeus libris and contributing editor at Bijeli val and Jesenski i Turk publishing houses. She edited the Croatian editions of the following filmological books – Raymond Bellour: Between-the-Images; Duras/Godard: Dialogues; Edgar Morin: Cinema or the Imaginary Man; Jean Epstein: The Intelligence of the Machine and Other Essays, Marie-Jose Mondzain: Can Images Kill? etc. Member of the European Film Academy and FIPRESCI.
Ivan Čojbašić was born in Podgorica in 1992. He graduated from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje with a bachelor degree in Film and TV Directing. After completing his studies, he founded the production and film equipment rental company Atomic D.O.O. Ivan works as a director of photography and a producer. As a director of photography, he worked on short feature and documentary films such as: ,,Rikverc”, ,,Velika očekivanja”, ,,Nekome svome”, ,,Mir naše gospe” … He is currently working as a director of photography on several feature-length documentary films: ,,Ova dobra zemlja” (Vladimir Perović), ,,Kontraadmiral” (Mladen Ivanović), ,,Porodica na određeno vrijeme” (Sead Šabotić) i ,,Stepo” (Tyler Gates).
Ognjen Glavonić is a filmmaker from Pančevo, Serbia. His films were shown at festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Toronto, Rotterdam and numerous others, winning several awards. His work was also shown at places like MOMA, MOMI and Lincoln Center in New York, Pompidou Center in Paris, ICA in London… Glavonić is also the director and co-founder of Pančevo Film Festival.
Filmography:
- Živan Makes a Punk Festival / documentary, 63’
- Depth Two / documentary, 80’
- The Load / feature, 98’