Screenplay of a Blockbuster is aimed at projects in development that successfully combine authorial and commercial sensibilities. The programme is a result of the need for projects that are equally attractive to festival, niche, and general audiences. This pitching is open only to Croatian majority productions of all types that have not yet received approval for production funds from the Croatian Audiovisual Center or other film funds. The selected projects will be presented to the three-member jury, and the best project will receive a cash prize in the amount of 10,000 EUR, awarded in cooperation with the distribution company Blitz and Croatian Audiovisual Centre. All selected finalists will be able to participate in the workshop programme to prepare for their presentations.
MENTOR: Vanja Jambrović
Vanja Jambrović (Zagreb, 1980) graduated in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and in production from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Since 2009, she has worked as producer at Restart, an association specialised in documentary film. The documentary films she produced have won more than 150 awards at international film festivals and were preselected for the European Film Award twice (Valerija, 2024, and Srbenka, 2019). Srbenka has won a total of 23 awards at film festivals, including the Doc Alliance Award. Her films have won the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Film three times (Valerija, directed by Sara Jurinčić in 2024, Museum of the Revolution, directed by Srđan Keča in 2022, and Srbenka, directed by Nebojša Slijepčević in 2018). She was a part of international workshops for film producers REACT (2017), EAVE (2015), Producer on the Move in Cannes (2014), Emerging Producer in Jihlava (2012), and Eurodoc (2010). She
teaches two courses at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, and since 2022, she has been a mentor at the international workshop for developing feature-length documentary films for the international market, Documentary Campus Masterschool from Germany. She has been a guest lecturer at international documentary film workshops such as Ex Oriente, BDC Discoveries, and Circle Women Doc Accelerator.
JURY:
Goran Stolevski, Tena Štivičić, Ines Žuljević
