Authors’ Room

In collaboration with the Pula Film Festival, which launched the Author’s Room workshop program this year, we are bringing its second edition to ZFF. The new three-day program takes place during the festival and is dedicated to screenwriting for fiction film and television projects based on the concept of creative collaboration, or a writers’ room. Creative teams of at least two and at most three members, comprising a screenwriter, director, and producer, are invited to participate. The program is aimed at projects from Croatia, as well as regional projects with strong co-production potential with Croatia.

The workshop will be mentored by directors and screenwriters Goran Stanković and Vladimir Tagić. Their starting premise is that creating film and television projects inherently requires teamwork across all stages of development, along with an open exchange of ideas. This allows for the exploration of ideas from various perspectives, the deepening of character development and story structure, and the continuous testing of dramaturgical solutions.

closed to the public

mentor

Goran Stanković

Goran Stanković graduated with a BA in Film and TV Directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade and earned his MA from the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles in 2014. His graduation film Way in Rye was nominated for a Student Academy Award for Best Student Film. He is a recipient of a scholarship from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Franklin J. Schaffner Directing Award. His feature documentary, In the Dark, premiered at IDFA. In collaboration with Vladimir Tagić, he co-created and directed the series Morning Changes Everything and Operation Sabre. His debut feature narrative film, Our Father, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

mentor

Vladimir Tagić

Vladimir Tagić (Belgrade, 1986) holds a master’s degree in Film and TV Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. His short film Emergency Exit (Izlaz u slučaju opasnosti, 2015) premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Together with Goran Stanković, he co-created, wrote, and directed the series Morning Changes Everything (2018) and Operation Sabre (2024). He also directed five episodes of the series Children of Evil, which premiered on HBO Max. He is the director and co-writer of the feature film Yugo Florica, which won the Best Actor award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.