Industry Youth!

WORKSHOP
closed to the public

PITCHING FORUM
10/11 ⎢ FRIDAY ⎢ 10:30 – 12:30 ⎢ Dokukino KIC
open to the public

The rich ZFF Industry programs usually focus on training for more mature film professionals. However, we also launched a separate student grants program called Industry Youth!. In collaboration with film academies from the region, the program offers festival attendance grants to two students from each of the academies. In a collaboration between the Zagreb Film Festival Industry program and six film academies from the region – from Belgrade, Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Sarajevo, Skopje, and Zagreb – 12 students and their 6 projects have been selected to participate in developing their short fiction films in intensive preparatory workshops.

Participants

Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (ADU)
Sara Alavanić, Lucija Perić

Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana (AGRFT)
Jaka Florjančić, Nina Bevk

Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo (ASU)
Ismira Mašić, Adna Rizvan

Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (FDU Beograd)
Milutin Milošević, Jelena Čeivanović

Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje (FDU Skopje)
Tadea Pavlovska, Roze Simonovska

University of Nova Gorica School of Arts (UNG AU)
Aleksandra Trajković, Milan Bajčetić

Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb (ADU)

Sara Alavanić, Lucija Perić

Sara Alavanić (director)
Sara Alavanić was born in 1998 in Zagreb. She graduated in graphic design from the  Faculty of Graphic Arts. Currently, she is studying film direction at the Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has directed several short films as part of her studies and within the association Blank. Her short documentary Do You Feel Nervous When I Approach You (2018) premiered at ZagrebDox.

Lucija Perić (producer)
Lucija Perić (1999) holds a BA in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. She is currently studying production at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she has produced several short films. She regularly works on various TV projects and produces fiction and documentary films and comercials.

Boiling Frog
Kiki recounts his unexpected summer trip to his elementary school friend Nina, in the only house in a small town in Dalmatian Hinterland. There, he encountered Natan, his former best friend. They spent their monotonous days together. Natan despised him and tried to seduce Nina, who continuously switched between wanting to have adventures and not leaving the house for days. Kiki didn’t care and didn’t really understand them. One morning, the idyll came to an abrupt end.

Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana (AGRFT)

Jaka Florjančić, Nina Bevk

Jaka Florjančić  (director)
Jaka Florjančić (2001) is a Slovenian film director. He has directed Happily Ever After (2022) and is currently completing his second film, Nightmare in the Attic, a horror movie about sexual trauma. He is enrolled at AGRFT, where he is working on a master’s degree in film directing.

Nina Bevk (producer)
Nina Bevk holds a BA in philosophy. She is a student of film production. Professionally she often works as an assistant director in films, television and commercials. She is interested in the organisational part of filmmaking. 

Strangers
Matic’s estranged brother Jan has a problem with substance abuse. In the middle of the night, when Matic is out, he receives a worrying call from his mother. He hurries home, where an officer informs the family that Jan and his best friend Timotej were found unconscious in the middle of the street and that Jan passed on. After the funeral, Timotej’s sister accidentally tells Matic that their brothers were together.

Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo (ASU)

Ismira Mašić, Adna Rizvan

Ismira Mašić (director)
Ismira Mašić was born in Olovo. She is a dramaturgy student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. Her first short feature film, Dead Knot, won the award for the best BiH student film at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2023. She worked on the film together with the producer Adna Rizvan. Ismira is currently working on developing the script for her graduate TV series Second Chance. 

Adna Rizvan (producer)
Second year student at the Department of Production and Management at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. She is a production deparment intern at Altteatar in Sarajevo, and the director of the student theatre festival, Postfest Sarajevo.

We Don’t Have a Picture of the Lake Because We Have Never Been at the Lake
Mila recalls her childhood memories through one question: “when will my dad come”. Now the twenty-three-year-old, absentmindedly watching the sunset, moves pebbles with her toe to make an untouchable fortress, which brings her back to the moment when her partner’s condom broke.

Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (FDU Beograd)

Milutin Milošević, Jelena Čeivanović

Milutin Milošević (director)
Milutin Milošević was born in Novi Sad in 2001. He is a student at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, class of prof. Srdan Golubović. His films screened at several international festivals, and he won the BashtaPitch award in 2023.

Jelena Čeivanović (producer)
Jelena Čeivanović was born in 1999 in Šapac. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. During her studies, she collaborated regularly with film director Milutin Milošević and theatre director Luka Mijatović. She was part of the BITEF Festival team from 2020 to 2022. She is currently in post-production with her project Death, Sea, Color Blue.

Death, Sea, Color Blue
A confused teenager is torn between a quiet fear of his father’s death and his first inocent love at a dilapidated camp, where weird blue people roam.

Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje (FDU Skopje)

Tadea Pavlovska, Roze Simonovska

Tadea Pavlovska (producer)
Tadea Pavlovska was born in 2002 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She enrolled at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje in 2021, department of film an theatre production.

Roze Simonovska (director)
Roze Simonovska was born in 1999 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She enrolled at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje in 2020, department of film and TV directing. 

Dose
Sanja, an Italian translator, lives with her husband, daughter and mother. After a night out with her friend Cornelia, she experiences delirium and blackouts. The next morning, she can’t recognize herself nor remember how she got home.

University of Nova Gorica School of Arts (UNG AU)

Aleksandra Stošić, Milan Bajčetić

Aleksandra Stošić (director)
Aleksandra Stošić graduated in painting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She is studying film at the University of Nova Gorica School of Arts. She has presented her work at solo and group exhibitions and participated in various international festivals. She won the first award at Bistrica Fest in 2023.

Milan Bajčetić (producer)
Milan Bajčetić (Montenegro, 1997) is a multimedia artist. He graduated from the Faculty of Design and Multimedia. He worked at the same faculty for two years as assistant. His short animated 3D film The Ray of Microcosm premiered at the Montenegro Film festival in the student competition. He works with visual effects, composes and produces music.

Greed
An influencer goes to a restaurant to investigate the secret of the OrganicPink powder used to make food. When they taste the food, a crew member consumes too much and becomes suddenly ill, so they take him away. Although she soon learns what the source of the food is, the influencer can’t stop eating neither.