Born in 1954 in Iceland.

He started making 16 mm film while still in high school. He ran the University's film club, founded Iceland's first film magazine and helped set up the Reykjavik Film Festival. Fridrikson is the chairman of the Icelandic Director's Guild, a member of the board of the Association of Icelandic
Film Producers and the Icelandic Film Academy. He is a member of the European Film Academy.

Fridrikson directed non-conventional documentaries such as the “The Blacksmith” (1981), “Rock in Reykjavik” (1982) and “Icelandic Cowboys” (1984), before his first feature, “White Whales” (1987). He then directed several films for Icelandic Television before making “Children of the Nature” (1991), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1992 and recieved no less than twenty three other international prizes. He then directed “Movie Days” (1994), “Cold Fever” (1995), “Devil's Island” (1996), “Angels of the Universe” ( 2000), “Falcons” (2002) and “Niceland” (2004).


//Boro Drašković

Born in 1935 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Boro Drašković is Serbian director, screenwriter, and playwrighter. Graduated from the Belgrade's Academy of Theater, Film, Radio, and Television in 1959. First made his name directing theatrical productions based on plays by Ionesko, Sofocles, Shakespeare, Beckett, Sartre, which were staged at the National Theater in Sarajevo, and Yugoslav Theater of Drama in Belgrade. More than three decades ago, his direction of Dragoslav Mihailović’s “Kad su cvetale tikve” in Yugoslav Theater of Drama was forbidden, which caused an outrage on the cultural scene. Draskovic expressed his revolt by chosing self-exhile, and spent the next thirty years away from the theater.

He entered the film industry as an assistant to Polish director Andrzej Wajda in 1962, and four years later, he also assisted Jerzy Kawalerowicz. Wrote his first commercially successful screenplay in 1964. In 1969, made his first feature film “Horoskop”. Other, most notable directions include “Nokaut”, “Usijanje”, “Život je lep” i “Vukovar jedna priča”, all of which he co-scripted and directed. Worked on TV and radio, directed numerous TV shows, dramas and documentaries.

Boro wrote several books on cinema and theater, mostly exploring the phenomena of acting and directing; these include “Promena”, “Lavirint”, “Ogledalo”, “Paradakos o reditelju” and “Kralj majmuna”. With the same perseverance, dedicated to his educational work at the Arts Academy in Novi Sad, where he teaches a course in directing intermedia.

//Dušica Žegarac

Born in 1944 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Dušica was accidentally discovered while still in high-school, and given a role of a prosecuted Jewish girl in “Deveti krug” (France Štiglic, 1960), for which she was awarded at the Pula film festival. After quiting her medical studies, she continued with similar roles of girls who help partisans in films such are “Stepenice hrabrosti” (Oto Denes, 1961) and “Saša” (Radenko Ostojić, 1962). In 1962 she began her acting studies at the Academy for Theater, Film, Radio and Television in Belgrade.

In 1966, after a longer period without professional engagement, she moved on to a more stable career with a role in “Tople godine” (Dragoslav Lazić). As a mature, attractive brunette, with a deep feel for the characters, she took mostly leading and bigger supporting roles in numerous films such are “Budjenje pacova” (Živojin Pavlović, 1967) and “Posalji čoveka u pola dva”, (Dragljub Ivkov, 1967). In 1971, she won “Zlatna arena” at the Pula film festival for the leading role in Zdravko Randić’s film “Opklada”. Eight years later, she won the same prize for the supporting role of a recovering alcoholic in “Poseban tretman” by Goran Paskaljević.

Since then she has been actin frequently in many Serbian TV series (i.e. “Od svakog koga sam volela” by Puriša Đorđević in 1971, “Mikelanđelo” by Stanko Crnobrnja in 1982, “Boje slepila” by Božidar Nikolić in 1991, etc.).

//Nenad Polimac

Born in 1949, in Zagreb, Croatia.

Studied history at the Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy. Writes film reviews since 1972, first in “Studentski list”, “Prolog” and “Omladinski tjednik”, later in numerous issues by “Vjesnik” publishing house – “VUS”, “Vjesnik”, “Start” i “Danas”. From 1975 to 1979, member of the editorial board, and then, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Film”. From 1978 to 1984, a regular contributor to the Television Zagreb’s film section, including the popular “3-2-1-kreni” show, also participates in shaping the programm, which was known then as the most inovative and daring in the former Yugoslavia. Since 1984, worked as a repertoire advisor for the firm “Kinematografi”. During this period, he edited two important monographs, “Branko Bauer” and “Zivojin Pavlovic: Dva razgovora”. In 1989, together with Vladimir Tomić, created a film show for the TV Zagreb called “Moderna vremena”, and a year later, another, much more famous show “Vrtoglavica”, which was first aired on Z3, and then on HRT. By the end of 1990, he’s among the founders of “Globus”, later also “Europa Press Holding”. In 1995 he was one of the founders of “Nacional”. Likes Hollywood classics, former Soviet cinema, and the Third Reich cinema. In 1970ies, during his formative years, he was greatly interested in all sorts of genre films, especially Hong Kong action films, American and Italian westerns.


//Carlo Varini

Carlo Varini received his degree as a camerman at the School of Cinema in Zurich. He began his career as a focus puller for the director of photography Renato Berta. For the next ten years he worked on twenty Swiss and German feature films.
 
When he moved to Paris, during the shooting of “Two Lions in the Sun” for Claude Faraldo his young trainee, Luc Besson, made friends with Varini. He becomes a director of photography on Luc Besson’s films “The Last Battle”, “Subway” and “Big Blue”.

Varini has worked as a director of photography on more than 30 feature films, documentaries and short films, and on more than 18 television shows. During his career, he has commited himself to make new choices of light for each, so that all the diverse films he has worked on are recognized by its specific style. He film has been awarded two “Ceasars” for the films “Subway” and “The Big Blue” for outstanding achievement in cinematography. His work has received tremendous notice at many of the major film festivals: Avoriaz, Sitgès, Berlin, Taormina, Venice, Cannes, Locarno, Lodz, etc.