DALIBOR MATANIĆ

    Born 21.01.1975. in Zagreb.

    Father Tomo, building engineer, mother Ana shopkeeper
    (20 years cashier, now boss in supermarket).

  
    In time of '96 - '00 made many awarded documentaries ("Derby", "Bag",
    "Good luck", "When our music roars"), short film "Silence",
    awarded film-festival trailers, commercials and videos…
   

2000. made his first feature "The Cashier wants to go to the seaside"
which gave him an award for best Croatian newcomer director,
best actress and supporting actress awards, best debut prize in Cottbus, Germany,
best actress award in Sochi, Russia. Film also opened New directors/New films festival
in New York and had best box-office results in Croatia and later on best result on Croatian television that season.

2002. made "Drought", first of the six short films about intimacy of six girls worldwide.
Six film will make an omnibus called "6/6".
"Drought" won a prize for best short film in Croatia in 2002. and special KODAK award..

This summer will be finished second feature "Fine dead girls".
He made it in screenplay-collaboration with Mate Matisic.
Film Deals with suffocated lives of Zagreb's citizens today, lack of freedom of act,
intolerance in post-communism country as Croatia is.

Parallel with releasing of "Fine dead girls", he is preparing a film about life of
Croatian def-mute woman painter Slava Raškaj together with screenplay writer Koraljka Mestrovic.

He makes films with his team:
Branko Linta (camera),
Tomislav Pavlic (editing),
Ankica Jurić-Tilić (production),
Jura Ferina i Pavle Miholjević (music),
Dragan Jurić (assistant),
Ana Savić-Gecan (costumes),
Željka Burić (art director),
Martina Novaković, Julijana Vrandečić, Mojca Gorogranc (make-up),
Dubravka Premar (sound editor),
Gordan Fučkar i Ruben Albahari (sound editor)

and many others, depends on project.

He adores actors and thinks they are the greatest weapon director has.
He adores audience (not masses) and thinks that man should never ignore it.
He adores people and on one hand he will always point out humanism, and on the other hand will point out people's mistakes and deviations of somebody's character.

He considers film as a final, highest art that combines all other arts.