DAMJAN KOZOLE

Slovenian director and screenwriter. Born in 1964 in Brežice. He grew up in Krško, living and working in Ljubljana. He directed his first feature film at the age of 22, the low budget The Fatal Telephone, one of the first independent films made in former Yugoslavia.  His films have played at many international film festivals, and his feature film Porno Film (2000.) was a big hit in his native Slovenia. His 2003 feature film Spare Parts was screened in the Competition Programme at Berlinale 2003 and following that at more than fifty international film festivals, where it won many international awards and entered the selection of best European Film for the European Film Awards. In his films, some of the most raffish, funky and even sordid characters discover their own humanity. By implication, too, they deal with the emergence of Slovenia after the break-up of Yugoslavia. He also directed films Remington (1988.), Stereotip (1997.), Labour Equals Freedom (2004.) and Za vedno (2008.). His next film will be drama Slovenka (2009.).

TOMISLAV RADIĆ

Croatian director and screenwriter. Born in 1940 in Zagreb. He holds a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and history of art from the Faculty of Philosophy and a bachelor’s degree in directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He made his screen directorial debut with the 1972 film The Living Truth, a film that brought Božidarka Frait the Golden Arena for best leading actress at the Pula Film Festival. The same year he made Timon and then stayed out of film directing until the 1991 drama The Harbour. The film was followed by My Dear Angel in 1995, Holding in 2001 and What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003, a film that won the Grand Golden Arena for best film and the Golden Arena for best director at the 2005 Pula Film Festival. He has also directed a series of plays: Timon of Athens, Tartuffe, The Coffee House. His production of Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style holds a special place and has been played in theatres without any interruptions from 1968. Radić worked as a professor of acting and stage directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb from 1978 to 1997. His new project is film Kotlovina.

MARCELLVS L.

Brasilian video artist. Born in 1980 Belo Horizonte. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His film A Man. A Road. A River. won the Grand Prix at the 2006 One Take Film Festival in Zagreb. He is an experimental artist whose main field of work is work in progress; examples of this are: VideoRizoma (2002-2005) i Esquizodramas (2004). His well-known work in progress consists of the following works: Man. Road. Cars. (2003), Man. Road. River. (2004) and Man. Canoe. Ocean. (2005). Man. Road. River. (2004) won the main prize at a prestigious International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The film was also awarded as the best experimental film at the festivals of short films in Teheran and Rio de Janeiro. Solo Exhibitions: Wer mich lenkt ist das Meer, carlier | gebauer, (Berlin, 2007), Bolsa Pampulha: Marcellvs L., Museu de Arte da Pampulha, (Belo Horizonte, 2007), Temporada de Projetos 2005/2006 Paço das Artes, Paço das Artes (São Paulo, 2005), VídeoRizoma, Instituto Felix Guattari (Belo Horizonte, 2003).