Aurora Gossé
is a norwegian director. She graduated from the Norwegian Film School in 2014 with the short film ‘We who see in the dark’ that received the ‘Film Critics Award’ at The Norwegian Short Film Festival. The film also reached the semifinales in The Student Academy Awards. The music video ‘Echo’ gained her ‘Talent of the year’ award at vidAwards in 2015, ‘Honorable mention’ in The Norwegian Short Film Festival and was shortlisted for Nordic Music Video Awards. Her feature film debut ‘Dancing Queen’ had the world premiere at the Berlinale Film Festival, Generation programme in 2023, received a lot of attention in festivals around the world and won 17 awards. She is now in postproduction with the sequel ‘Dancing Queen in Hollywood’.
Dino Krpan
graduated product design in Zagreb in 1995. In 2001 he started producing animated and experimental films. He has produced around 10 short animated films which have been shown at more than 150 festivals. He is the author of three short animated films: “Alea iacta est ( “ (2006), “Magical Invention” (2010) and “Malleus Dei” (2018) which have been shown at around 60 international festivals and have received several international awards. From 2008 to 2012 he taught postproduction in animation at Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Since 2014 he has taught computer animation at the department of Film, Television and Multimedia at VERN. He was a member of the selection committee and juries at several festivals including Zagreb Animafest. He is the producer and co-director of Croatia’s first 3D animated feature film “Cricket & Antoinette” (2023), and the director and writer of two special episodes of Professor Baltazar – “Virtues from the Deep” (2002) and “Hector’s Discovery” (2024).
Nikša Butijer
Nikša Butijer is famous and respected Croatian theater, TV and film actor. He was born in Dubrovnik in 1979 and graduated in 2003 on Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. During his career, Butijer acts in plays in Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Mala Scena Theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Marin Držić Theatre, Theatre &TD, Croatian National Theatre in Osijek and others. For his theatrical and film achievements he received several awards, including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Priest's Children at Pula Film Festival. He lives in Zagreb.