About me

Graduated at the Academy of Fine arts in Zagreb, animation department. I participated in many training programs, such as the Animation Sans Frontieres and the script writing course at La Poudriere in France.

My student films 'Slaughtered' (2010) and 'The Son of Satan' (2012) earned notable success at many festivals, and the film 'Slaughtered' was bought by the TV station El Rey Network owned by producer Robert Rodriguez. Film 'Ghost Town' won the Octavian award at a festival in Zagreb as the best animated film in Croatian production in 2016. My recent animated film, 'All Those Sensations in my Belly' has won 25 awards and mentions and has been shown on more than a 200 festivals worldwide, such as Annecy in France, Outfest and Rhode Island Festival in USA, Message to Man and Big Cartoon in Russia, Animafest in Zagreb and OIAF in Ottawa (Canada) where it won the best script award too.

I'm also the co-founder of the Adriatic Animation Studio for animation production in Zagreb, and one of the organizers of the OHOHO Festival of Comics and Street Art since 2019. I've been publishing short comics in many magazines worldwide such as Heavy Metal (USA) and fanzines: Freakshow Comix and Gorgonzola (France), Aargh! (Chech Republic), Komikaze and Endem (Croatia). I'm the editor of two comic magazines OHOHOzin and Strip-Prefiks.

Recent comic project I colaborated on with american writer Michael Ruzinz-Unger, Crater City got fully funded on Kickstarter.

Awards and mentions (selected):

'All Those Sensations in my Belly'

Best Film in Balkan Competition, Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo, 2020
Special Mention in Croatian Competition, Animafest Zagreb, Croatia, 2020
Best Croatian Short Film, Mediterranean Film Festival Split, Croatia, 2021
Best Film Award, Image+Nation Queer Short Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 2021
Best Innovation Award, Image+Nation Queer Short Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 2021
Flickers' Youth Film Jury First Prize for the Best LGBTQ Film, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA, 2021
Special Mention, Festival MIX Milano - International Festival of LGBTQ+ Cinema and Queer Culture, Milano, Spain, 2021
Best Animation, Linz International Film Festival, Linz, Austria, 2021
Best Script, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada, 2021
Best European Short Film, 3D Wire Fest / Weird International Animation Market and Festival, Segovia, Spain, 2021
Special Mention, Videomedeja International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2021
Special Mention, International Film Festival of Lanzarote, Spain, 2021
WIA Diversity Award, Spark Animation Festival/Women in Animation, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
Special Jury Prize, Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia, 2021
Special mention, Festival Cinema et Droits Humains, Paris, France, 2021
Youth Jury Award for Best Short Film, Exground filmfest 2021
Best International Short Film, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival 2021
Special Mention, Manchester Animation Festival 2021
Best Short Film, SocialMed Mediterranean Human Rights Festival 2021
Special Mention, Merlinka International Queer Film Festival 2021
Special Mention in Monstrinha Competition, Monstra Lisbon Animated Film Festival 2022
Junior Jury Award, Animocje International Animated Film Festival 2022
Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, International Filmmaker Festival of New York 2022
Jury special mention, Hiroshima Animation Season, Hiroshima, Japan, 2022
Best international short, Animasivo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2022

'Ghost Town'

Octavian award, Dani Hrvatskog filma, Zagreb, Croatia, 2016
Best animated film, Golden Boll Film Festival, Adana, Turkey, 2016
Special mention, Tofuzi, Tibilisi, Georgia, 2016
Special mention, Animafest, Zagreb 2016
Special mention, Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016

'The Son of Satan' and 'Slaughtered'

Audience award, FHAF 2, Zagreb, Croatia, 2012
Audience award, FHAF, Zagreb, Croatia, 2010
Best short film, Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Arte, Bergamo, Italy, 2010

Awards for comics:

Special mention - comic 'Space Between Us', Sferakon, Zagreb, Croatia, 2021
Best magazine award - OHOHO #3, International comic and animation festival Supertoon, Šibenik, Croatia, 2020
Best magazine award - Strip-PREFIKS #2, International comic and animation festival Supertoon, Šibenik, Croatia, 2021
Award for the best young comic author in Balkan, Balkan Festival of Young Comicbook Authors, Leskovac, Serbia, 2013
Award for the best young comic author, Salon stripa Vinkovci, Croatia, 2012
1st award for comic 'Posljednji fan', Dani dobrog stripa, Rijeka, Croatia, 2010

Jury member and selector:

Jury member at REX animation film festival, 2024, Stockholm, Sweden - competition program's jury
Jury member at Xiamen international animation festival, 2024, Xiamen, China - international comic competition program
Jury member at Balkanima - festival of european animated films, 2024, Belgrade, Serbia - international competition program
Jury member at Festival International du Film Amateur de Kélibia (FIFAK), 2024, Kaibia, Tunisia - international competition program
Jury member at Anibar International Film Festival 2023 Peja, Kosovo - human rights program and music videos
Jury member at Flipbook Film Festval 2023 Skopje, Macedonia - main competition program and music videos
Jury member at Guanajuato International Film Festival (Giff), 2022 Mexico - main short film competition and experimental films
Jury member at Festival Mediteranskog Filma Split 2021 Split, Croatia - main short film competition
Selector at Dubrovnik Film Festival 2019 Croatia - main competition program
Jury member at VAFI&RAFI Festival 2019 Varaždin, Croatia - main competition program
Selector at Animafest Zagreb 2017 Croatia - student competiton