Interests: film and video, music, photography, production, media.
About me: I was born in Đakovo, where I completed primary and secondary school, after which I graduated from the Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences in Osijek. I started doing photography and film in 1982 as part of the Đakovo Photography and Film Club. I was making and exhibiting classic black and white photographs and making documentaries and short live-action films on 16 mm.
Simultaneously with photography and film, in 1993, I started writing music and formed a band called “Guinness”, in which I promoted traditional Irish music. In 1995, I launched a multimedia project called “Ars Nova”, which quickly became the band “Nova”. I recorded three studio albums with Nova and was nominated for the prestigious “Porin” award.
The peak of my music career came in 2010, when I published a compilation album for the German label “Globetunes”, which preserved my music forever by including it in the catalogue of the German National Library. I have been a member of the Croatian and German Composers’ Society since 1998 and 2010, respectively.
In the meantime, I attended the “Dr. Ante Peterlić” School of Media Culture of the Croatian Film Association (live action, documentary film, TV report, specialised for camera and shooting). I have shot and directed a number of short and long documentary, experimental, corporate and short live-action films, which were mostly shown at the Croatian Film Festival and Croatian Film Days. So far, I have made and directed over 250 professional music videos with over 100 million views on YouTube.
I shot and directed my first feature live-action film, ADAM, in 2019, which premiered in Vukovar and many cinemas across Slavonia. ADAM won many international awards and entries in online festivals across Europe, America and Canada, including: Barcelona Indie Filmmakers Festival (Official Selection), Austria International Film Festival (Official Selection), Montreal Independent Film Festival (Best Narrative Feature), New York Movie Awards (Best Picture), New York Dumbo Film Festival (Semi-Finalist), Prague International Monthly Film Festival (Award Winner), London Gold Movie Awards (Semi-Finalist), Rome International Film Festival (Best Feature Film), Košice International Film Festival (Best Feature Film), Toronto Film Channel Awards (Best Narrative Feature, Best Cinematography), Rome Independent Prisma Awards (Official Selection), NNW International Film Festival Warsaw-Gdynia (Official Selection).
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