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CFF Curators

Film

Jurica Pavicic Jurica Pavicic

Jurica Pavicic was born in Split in 1965. Since 1990 he has worked as a film critic and newspaper columnist. He won the Vladimir Vukovic Award for Film Criticism in 1992, and has won two further awards for his journalism. He made his literary debut in 1997 with the thriller Ovce od gipsa (Alabaster Sheep), later made into an award winning film directed by Vinko Bresan. His short stories have been published in various newspapers and magazines, and translated into English, German, Italian, and Bulgarian. His crime story Nedjeljni prijatelj (2000) dealt with social contradictions in Croatia of the 1990s. A play, Trovaçica, was staged at the Croatian National Theatre in Split and won the Marin Drcic Award. His third novel Minuta 88 was shortlisted for the 2002 Jutrarnji List Book of the Year Award. In 2005 and 2006 he published the novels KuXa njene majke and Crvenkapica.
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Branko FranceschiBranko Franceschi

Branko Franceschi was born in Zadar, Croatia in 1959. From 1987 to 2004 he was a program director at the gallery Miroslav Kraljevic in Zagreb. Since 2004 he's been an executive director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia.
Trained as an Art Historian at the University of Zagreb, from 1987 he initiated and curated hundreds of exhibitions of contemporary art for the gallery Miroslav Kraljevic and other exhibition spaces in Croatia and beyond. He was selector for the Croatian pavilion at 16 Sao Paulo Biennial (2004), 2 International Biennial in Prag (2005), 52 Venice Biennial (2007) and member of the curatorial team of 2 Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest (2006). In 2005 he initiated Biennial of Quadrilateral in Rijeka, Croatia. His diverse background includes production of online works, articles for daily papers, art reviews and cultural periodicals, TV and radio broadcasting. He initiated, managed and coordinated a residency for Croatian artists at PS1 from 2001-2007 in New York, Croatian participation in Art in General’s EERE program since 2004 and other cultural exchanges between Croatia and USA, and Croatia and Great Britain. He produced TV segments for the Croatian television on the contemporary art scene of New York, London and Belfast. In 2001 Branko worked with New Media Scotland on Blind Date, an exchange project involving artists from Croatia and Scotland.
Member of AICA (Board of AICA Croatia), ICOM, CIMAM, DPUH, Advisory Committee of ArtsLink.