Agora Market Manual 2010

Crossroads Projects51st Thessaloniki IFF-2010 - Agora/Market ManualDIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHYTwo Sunny Days, 2010Pula Intl Film FestivalCottbus Intl Film FestivalArmin, 2007Berlin Film Festival - ForumBest Film – East of the West, Karlovy Vary Intl Film FestivalBest film - Paris Cinema Intl Film FestivalSorry For Kung Fu, 2004Berlin Film Festival - ForumSpecial Prize, Warsaw Intl Film FestivalInternational Critics Award, PECS Intl Film FestivalDIRECTOR’S CVBorn in 1971 in Split, Croatia, Ognjen Svilicic has graduatedfrom the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb. He began hiscareer directing TV films and in 2000, he directed his firstlong-feature film, Wish I Were a Shark. The film was awardedbest Croatian motion picture at the national film festival ofPula by film critics and was first on Croatian top box office in2000. Svilicic continued with Sorry for Kung Fu 2004, thatwas screened in a world premiere at the 55th Berlin FilmFestival, and won several international awards. Sorry for KungFu was sold for theatrical and DVD release in Germany, USAand France. Then, Svilicic directed his fifth long-feature film,Armin. After having its world premiere at the Berlin FilmFestival, Armin has been screened in more than 50 festivalsand was awarded more than a dozen times. Ognjen Svilicicis also working as a scriptwriter, and teaches scriptwritingat the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb since 2008.Ognjen Svilicic, Directorpresent at CrossroadsPRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYDamir TeresakEnemy, 2010, post - productionby Dejan ZecevicTwo Sunny Days, 2010Pula Intl Film FestivalCottbus Intl Film FestivalArmin, 2007Berlin Film Festival - ForumBest Film – East of the West, Karlovy Vary Intl Film FestivalBest film - Paris Cinema Intl Film FestivalGoing Home, 2003Montreal Intl Film FestivalShanghai Intl Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEDamir Teresak, Maxima Film – CroatiaDamir Teresak, the first independent producer in Croatia,founded the production company Maxima Film in 1992.Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Academy of DramaticArts at the University of Zagreb teaching ProductionManagement for Film and Television. Since 2003, he hasbeen a member of the Board of the Producer’s Union ofCroatia.PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHYJanja KraljTwo Sunny Days, 2010Pula Intl Film FestivalCottbus Intl Film FestivalPRODUCER’S PROFILEJanja Kralj, KinoElektron – FranceJanja Kralj studied Art History at the Sorbonne University.During her studies, she was organizing exhibitions of youngartists from the former Yugoslavia in Paris. Janja Kralj hadher first experience in cinema as a production coordinatoron Laurent de Bartillat’s The Vanishing Point (Rome IFF2007). She joint then Shilo Films’ team and collaborated onsuch features as Tehilim by Raphael Nadjari (Official CompetitionCannes 2007), and Plum Rain by Frédéric Fisbach(Venice IFF 2007 – Venice Days). In 2008, she produced herfirst feature film Two Sunny Days by the Croatian directorOgnjen Svilicic in co-production with Maxima Film. In December2009, she founded a new company KinoElektron.She is part of the EAVE Workshop program 2010.Previous Work available at the Film MarketTwo Sunny Days 2010 and Armin 2007 are available at theDigital Video – Library.Janja Kralj, Producerpresent at Crossroads57