Former Jury members:
Žiri 2012.
Irena Škorić is 28 year old film director, screenwriter and producer who had a breaktrough last year with her controversial erotic drama “7sex7”. But, that was not her first, and we are sure not the last film. She directer and produced over 30 short and medium length movies and 3 documentaries. She is a member of the croatian film director society. She wrote critics for movie magazines like Hollywood and Croatian movie chronicle. She participated on many domestic and foreign movie festivals and won 40 movie prizes. Her movies were shown on over 200 movie festivals. To shorten it up – she’s young, she’s blonde, she’s beautiful, she’s succesful, and she’s made for Trash Film Festival.
Ivan Goran Vitez (37) is also young, he’s not blonde though, and we wouldn’t dare to talk about his estetic value. That’s a job for female members of the Trash Society and Trash Society does not have female members. His first contact with the Trash Film Festival was a couple of years ago when his documentary “Small hands” in which he boldly spoke about croatian national movie festival in Pula was shown on TFF. That was the first and the only public showing of his film. But, that is nothing strange because Trash Society likes people from Varaždin, and Ivan Goran Vitez is from Varaždin because his mother was born in Varaždin. He always says that Varaždin is his second home, and after this years Trash Film Festival we are sure Varaždin will become his most favorite home. He made a real breaktrough last yeat with his movie “Šuma Summarum” which was by some media pronounced the best croatian trash film, but Trash Society decisively rejects that kind of assessment because it is well known that blockbusters like “Overpunishment”, “Sun Tzu” and “Long Banana” are the best croatian trash movies of all time. Ivan Goran Vitez iz also known as the director of famous croatian sitcoms like “Rascals and princess” and “The Law”.
Stojan Matavulj
is an academic actor born in Novi Sad in 1961. He lived in Split in his early days, where he attended various kinds of schools. After that he disappeared without a clue, even though he has been seen a couple of times at Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He enjoyed in graduating from the Academy and later in gathering his acting experience. In his last appearance in public he showed up in Varaždin in 1988, where he captured his American dream. He is employed in Croatian National Theatre as program protagonist and actor who interpreted many important roles (even the ones in local dialect). Globalization takes him to many places in Croatia and abroad where he acts and sometimes even directs. The peak of his career is, of course, this year?s enrolment in Expert?s Jury of Trash Film Festival.
Jury 2011.
Nenad Polimac- predsjednik žirija/president of the jury
Đelo Hadžiselimović
Milan Todorović
Jury 2010.
Nino Raspudić– President of the jury
Mladen Badovinac – TBF
Željko Luketić
Jury 2009.
Rajko Grlić – President of the jury
Having directed a number of films (Čaruga, U raljama života, Karaula…), Mr. Grlic received more than fifty international awards such as Grand Prix for best film and Best Director at Tokyo international film festival.
He is a lecturer at the University of Ohio, yet he visits Croatia often, especially in summer when he can be seen in Istria, since he is also the art director of the Motovun Film Festival. Mr. Grlic is involved in many film projects, latest being reviewing your “trash films” and pulling his own hair at the same time, of course.
Robert Knjaz – first on the right
The first on the right hand of Mr. Grlic is Robert Knjaz, tv genious who says he was a “naughty ad lazy student who never thought he might grow up to be a handsome young man with a cheeky moustache”. He was born in the same year Mr. Grlic graduated from the university.
Nowadays, he is a celebrity tv author, having produced programs like “Zaleđe”, “Svlačionica”, “Mjenjačnica”, “Koleđicom po svijetu”…
Borivoj Radaković
The founder of the controversial FAK festival, Borivoj Radakovic’s name is synonymous with the fall of postmodernism, which basically means that he uses the raw street language, filled with swearing and with little poetry and metaphor. Like with Mr. Knjaz, football culture plays a fundamental role in his life, which reflects in his work, “Sjaj Epohe” and “Dobrodošli u plavi pakao”.
Reviewing trash films is not his first experience with directors and actors. Mr. Radakovic is the author of several plays which have been performed at the Kerempuh theatre (“Dobro došli u plavi pakao”, “Miss nebodera za Miss svijeta”). He is very active as a translator, having translated such contemporary English authors as Hanif Kureishi ( “The Buddha of Suburbia” ) and Alex Garland ( “The Beach” ).
He lives and works in Zagreb.
Jury 2008.
Kristijan Milić – President of the jury
Born on December 12, 1969. In Zagreb. From 1993. to 2000. he was working as a set designer and on lightman position. In 1994 he enrolled in Academy of Dramatic Art. In the scope of study he directed three short movies. In the Student Festival “F.R.K.A.” (1998) he was second awarded for a short film “Backwoods”.
From 2000 he has been actively occupied with directing music and advertising spots. In 2001. he received his degree from Academy as a film and TV director.
In the year 2002., supported by the Ministry of culture, he completed a short movie “Safe House” which, on event “Dani hrvatskog filma”, war awarded for the best debutant and for the best camera (Mario Sabli?). Due to distribution necessities, the movie “Safe House” was connected with the short movie “Straight to the bottom” by Goran Kulenovi? and in this way became a compounding part of the omnibus “24 hours” which won the Vjesnik price “Breza” for the best debutants on Pula Film Festival 2002.
In 2004. he started to work on film “The Living and the Dead” according to the scenario and the prized book of Josip Mlaki?. That Croatian-Bosnian-Herzegovinian project was not finished until 2007., due to financial problems. In the same year this film was the winner of 8 “Zlanta arena” awards (the best film, directory, camera, film editing, music, sound special effects and episode male role) on the National Film Festival in Pula. After that, on prestige shooting festival “Braća Manaki” in Bitola, the film won “Zlatna kamera 300” for the best photography (Dragan Marković) in extremely big international competition. After Bitola, the film attends to numerous festivals and takes three awards more (Beograd, Tetouan and Lecee).
In 2007 as trash top, RTL television engaged him for the leading director of the series “Ne daj se, Nina!”, Croatian version of Columbian series “Yo so Betty la fea” i.e. the worldwide success “Ugly Betty”.
Filmography:
2007 The Living and the Dead (feature film)
2002 Safe House (short film) [24 Hours]
1998 Boredom (short film)
1998 Backwoods (short film)
1995 Intolerance (short film)
Mario Kovač
Born on October 25, 1975 in Zagreb, the Croatian theatre and film director, graduated in the year 2002. at Academy of Dramatic Art, section Theatre Directing. For twelve years he was a member of “Dramsko u?ilište” in ZKM.
In the year 1995 he established an independent theatre group “Schmrtz Teatar”, with which, in little more than 5 years work, he directed, played and performed in more than 120 shows, performances, happenings, concerts … and realizes numerous tours in Croatia and Europe.
In the beginning of 2001 he feels it is nece3ssary to make a radical cut in his work and he dismissed “Schmrtz Teatar” and established the theater group “Nova grupa”. With different bands and projects he has recorded about ten music albums of different trends (from the cabaret punk to the radical experiments).
Together with two coauthors, he was a director of the movie “Bore Lee – U kandžama velegrada” (which shortly became one of the most watched home movie in that year and the most sold home movie in DVD form) and “Bore Lee – ?uvaj se sinjske ruke” (which was primary shown on ZFF 2004, and the soundtrack of this movie was nominated for Porin award). Alone with Bore Lee he has made a middle length film “Borilica” which became one of the most watched movies through internet.
In the year 2004 co-signed the book “Big Brother – 100 dana ispred ekrana” (editor: AGM) with two writers.
Among TV projects, it is important to distinguish the function of story editor in the first season of “Big Brother” story (RTL Television) and creative editor in the first season of reality show “Bar” (Nova TV). At the moment he is working as leading set designer on TV series “Dobre namjere”.
Dubravko Mataković, (autobiografija za početnike 2)
I was born in 1959 in Ivankovo, west of Vinkovci, in private undertaking, the small craft. I had no childhood, the life was hard, TV sets were small black & white and there lived small people in there. Then someone has discovered that there were no small people in it. After that I went to school. There, in the school was boring. Then the Beatles set them apart. Then I finished my school and again enrolled another school. That school was also boring and I hardly waited to finish it. My professors hated me. Then another year passed and I enrolled to Art Academy. There, we were mostly drawing and I could relief from learning. The heating was good there and it was warm in winter, and we were drawing naked women. After I have finished that Academy I went straight to Army, the enemy one. For sure, I was forced to. There I had pretty much problems and my combat readiness was poor. After the Army again I hanged around and got married, and hell the war began! Then the war passed and I got 2 children, and not at once but one after another so that they are not twins now. In the meantime I was always drawing something, comics and something else worthless, the doctors said that it won’t be good, always sitting and drawing. So I sit and wrote a drama. There it is played in theater. I bought a flat TV set. In there, people are not only small but they are also flat. What about that?
Jury 2007.
Marinko Prga– President of the jury
Born in 1971 in Split, currently member of Croatian National Theatre in Varaždin. Very perspective young actor, known for his roles of negative characters in “Divna splitska noć” and “Duga mračna noć”, at the moment acting in TV series “Luda kuća”. Also starred in “Trešeta”, “Svjedoci”, “Maršal”, “Živi i mrtvi” and other recent motion pictures. Holding a gun against Richard Gere’s head in “Praznici u Bosni”.
Tanja Špiranec– director and editor for RTL TV network
Born in ’77 in Varaždin (…) she is finishing her studies at the Academy of Dramatic Art; at the moment she is working as a director and editor for RTL television…
Ljubomir Kerekeš – actor of Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
Ljubomir Kerekeš was born in 1960 in Varaždin. Professional actor since 1980. Member of Varaždin theatre for 14 years and 2 years member of “Kerempuh” Satiric Theatre. Actor of Croatan National Theatre in Zagreb for the last 3 years. Lj.K. has acted more than 80 roles and characters in various plays and motion pictures. He starred in movies “Kako je počeo rat na mom otoku” and “Svjedoci” from director Vinko Brešan, in “Tri muškarca Melite Žganjer” directrd by Snježana Tribuson, than in “Obiteljska stvar” and many others. He is a winner of various awards and recognitions.
Jury 2006.
Marinko Prga – President of the jury
Ivan Mesek
Martin Keretić