Luka Čurčić, croatia
director

contact: luka.curcic@gmail.com

Luka Čurčić, 1986, Zagreb. He graduated from comparative literature (MA) and informatics sciences (BA) at the University of Zagreb (2012). In 2016, he graduated (BA and MA) studies film directing from the Academy of Dramatic Arts (University of Zagreb).

From 2020 Luka is developing his 1st feature film: “Manchild”, and documentary “1000 km in a Wheelchair”. He was a member of the jury for HAK (Croatian Auto Club – competition: 2019-2022) and on the jury for the Reel Youth Festival (2018, 2019). He was a participant in Talent Camp, OFF, Odense (2012), and Sarajevo Talent Campus (2009).

Writes for web portals (Booksa) and Croatian Film Chronicle (The Chronicle is registered in the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals, in the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, in SCOPUS, and in the most prestigious international database of papers Web of Science (WoS).

FILMOGRAPHY:

  • The Interns / short film/ 2018 / as a director and screenwriter
  • That Old Job / short film / 2014 / as a  director and screenwriter
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / short film / 2013 / as a  director and screenwriter
  • Driving the Electric Green / short documentary / 2012 / as a director and screenwriter
  • Trust no one / short documentary / 2012 / as  a director and screenwriter
  • Amateurs / short film/ 2012 / as  a director and screenwriter
  • Innovator from the garage / documentary / 2011 / as  a director and screenwriter 

 FESTIVALS & AWARDS:

  • The Interns / Slum film festival / 2019
  • The Interns / International Student film festival New Wave / 2018
  • That Old Job / Grand Prix PSSST! / 2014
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / FeKK YU film festival Ljubljana Slovenia / 2015
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / Pula Film Festival / 2015
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / Filmski front / 2014
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / Revija hrvatskog filmskog i video stvaralaštva / 2014
  • An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral / Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen / 2014
  • Driving the Electric Green / Shortlisted for Sundance Film Festival
  • Trust no one / 3rd prize: 44. Revue of Croatian film and video / 2012
  • Trust no one / Special mention FRKA / 2013
  • Trust no one / Liburnia film festival / 2013
  • Trust no one / Zagrebdox / Phonedox 2014
  • Amateurs / ZFF, program Kockice / 2012
  • Amateurs / 44. Revue of Croatian film and video / 2012