Eve Heller

Eve Heller began studying filmmaking when she was 17, attending the S.U.N.Y. Department of Media Studies at Buffalo and New York University. She received her BA in German Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from Hunter College in 1987 and an MFA in filmmaking from Bard College in 1993. Her award winning work has been widely shown, both in the U.S. and internationally, at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Collective for Living Cinema, the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Cinematheque Ontario, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Louvre, the Viennale and the Austrian Filmmuseum in Vienna. Eve teaches workshops throughout the world on analog filmmaking and works as a German/English translator specializing in texts about cinema. She currently lives and works in Vienna, Austria and Hyde Park, New York.

Tomislav Šoban

Tomislav Šoban was born in 1981 in Zagreb. He graduated in 2004 from the Department of Prints and Graphics of the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2007 he has been an active member of the Kinoklub Zagreb, where he made his first films. In 2011 he began his studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Department of Film and TV Directing. From 2018 to 2022 he served as president of the Kinoklub Zagreb, where he is still an active member. In 2020 he graduated from the academy, majoring in feature film. He has made many short films of various genres, including the experimental animation The Tiniest (2013), and The end/land (2015) screened at 25 FPS. 
In 2023, he directed a small author's project, theater play Reality in the Croatian National Theater. He tends to research cinematic forms and means of expression. He continues to study and work, and vice versa.

Photo: Maja Posavec
 

Varja Močnik

Varja Močnik graduated in film and TV directing from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana. She has worked as a self-employed person in culture since 2001. After graduation, she directed a few films and worked as a TV director. From 2003 to 2006, she worked for the Slovenian Cinematheque (Slovenska kinoteka) as an assistant to the programme manager. During this time, she began to write and translate texts about film. The cooperation with Slovenian Cinematheque continued when she worked as a film programme curator from from 2014 to 2022, which she still continues to do as a guest. She has worked at the international film festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema from the very first edition in 2013 to this day in different capacities, but she currently holds the position of head film programmer. Since 2020 she has also been cooperating with the University of Nova Gorica as a lecturer in film theory and history at their Academy of Art.

Marija Krstanović

Marija Krstanović (Zadar, 1995) graduated in Comparative literature and Library studies from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. Her field of interest includes art practices (emphasis on film critique) and cultural-political practices (emphasis on socially vulnerable groups), writing about it regularly, and publishing mostly in the academic film journal Hrvatski filmski ljetopis and Kulturpunkt e-zine. She works at the Multimedia Institute as a head of the Social and Cultural Centre MaMa and at the Croatian Film Association as a film and cinema program coordinator. She is part of the organizing team of the Human Rights Film Festival and Supertoon, and served as a member of the critics jury of the Kinoklub Zagreb.  She has participated at Talents Sarajevo and received the Vladimir Vuković Award for the best new critic in 2022.

Oskar Ban Brejc

Oskar Ban Brejc is a film critic and theorist. He regularly contributes to several film magazines and publications, among them KINO! and Ekran. He co-heads a monthly radio show about film and film theory at Radio Študent and is a two-time recipient of the Nika Bohinc Award, once for best film essay and once for best film review. He is interested in the status of the contemporary moving image, and the history of experimental cinema.

Dino Staničić

Dino Staničić, historian, literary and film critic, works at the The Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. He studied history and literature at the Faculty of Croatian Studies and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb (at the latter, he began his post-graduate doctoral studies in history). He published essays and reviews in Arteist, Moderna vremena, Telegram, Kolo, Vijenac, etc. He wrote a number of professional and scientific papers, presented at several conferences and collaborated on several scientific projects. He is an author of the book Trijumf ideje jugoslavenstva: kulturna i intelektualna povijest Zagreba u Prvome svjetskom ratu (Plejada, 2023), and co-author of high school history textbook Svijet prije nas 4 (Meridijani, 2021).