Branko Istvancic

Graduated film and TV direction at Academy of Dramatic Arts (ADU) in Zagreb in 1999, his student short Saying Goodbye / Leave-Taking (1993) was included in the New Direction programme of The First Film Foundation in London, a selection of six outstanding films by promising European directors. Since 2003 he has been permanently working for the national television (HRT), directing documentaries, educational programmes, series and a short feature entitled Freeze Frame / Zamrznuti kadar (1999). The award-winning The Cormorant Scarecrow / Plasitelj kormorana (1998) in 1998 is one of the best Croatian films in the 1990s. Member of Croatian Film Director's Guild.