BIOGRAPHY

Bruno Pavić was born on March 30, 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated from the Arts Academy in Split, at the Film and Video Department, and later obtained his master’s degree at the same academy, at the Department of Film, Media Arts, and Animation. He creates fiction, documentary and experimental films, as well as video art. His short and feature films have been screened at international film festivals. His award-winning hybrid documentary “Nulti krajolik“ (Landscape Zero) was named the best Croatian documentary film of 2021 by film critics. With his experimental films and video works, he participates in international group exhibitions and video art festivals. He is engaged in curatorial work in the field of video art and is the founder of the first Croatian video art festival – Split Videoart Festival.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Bruno Pavić
(Zagreb, Croatia, 30.03.1988.)

Education

2011 – 2013 postgraduate study at the Split Art Academy (UMAS), Film, Split, Croatia
2008 – 2011 graduate study at the Split Art Academy (UMAS), Film and Video, Split, Croatia

Awards

2024  Special Recognition, OSTEN Biennial, Skopje, North Macedonia
2023  1st Prize winner, 5th International Video Art Forum, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2023  Audience award, Mister Vorky Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia
2023  Honorary mention, Festival Internacional de Cineminutos de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
2022  Top of the Docs Award, critics’ award for the best Croatian documentary film
2022  Dokumetar Award, critics’ award for the best Croatian documentary film
2021  Ivan Martinac Award for creative and inovative use of film language, Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2021  Special mention, International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand
2012  First prize, group exhibition Svijet Charlesa Dickensa (The World of Charles Dickens), Rijeka, Croatia

Film festivals – feature films

2024  #FilmsForFuture, Zenica, BiH
2023  International Film Festival Transcending Borders, Paris, France
2022  Eco-film Festival Mljet, Mljet Island, Croatia
2022  Euganea Film Festival, Padova, Italy
2022  9th Enviromental film festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2022  Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
2021  Cinema Vérité – Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
2021  Days Of Croatian Film, Zagreb, Croatia
2021  International Festival Signs of the Night, Bangkok, Thailand (*Special mention)
2021  Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia (*“Ivan Martinac“ prize)
2021  Astra Film Festival, Sibiu, Romania
2021  Liburnia Film Festival, Opatija, Croatia (*best cinematography and sound design, film “Landscape Zero“)
2021  Aegean Film Festival, Patmos, Greece
2021  Pula Film Festival, Pula, Croatia
2021  South East European Film Festival (SEEfest), Los Angeles, USA
2021  32nd Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy
2020  25th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic
2016  Ferfilm Festival, Ferizaj, Kosovo
2016  XIV Cine Pobre Film Festival, La Paz, Mexico
2016  34th International Film Festival of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
2015  International Film Festival Golden Anteaters, Lublin, Poland
2015  Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2015. Split film festival, Split, Croatia
2015  Opuzen film festival, Opuzen, Croatia
2015  62nd Pula film festival, Pula, Croatia
2014  Overlook 2014 – 5th Cinemavvenire film festival, Rome, Italy    

Film festivals – short and mid-length films

2025  Izmir International Refugee Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey
2024  Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale, USA
2024  XIV Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela
2024  International short Film Festival FROM – Returnees, Mali Iđoš, Serbia
2024  2114 Film fest, Novi Sad, Serbia
2024  Celluloidra Revolverrel – Hungarian Experimental Film Festival, Esztergom, Hungary
2024  Vagrant Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus
2023  KURZstummfilmfestival, Essen, Germany
2023  The Digital Gate international film festival, Annaba, Algeria
2023  Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale, USA
2023  Silver City International Film Festival, Cuttack, India
2023  Anti-War International Independent Film Festival, Jõhvi, Estonia
2023  Mister Vorky Film Festival, Ruma, Serbia (*Audience award for one-minute film)
2023  Kursaal Film Festival / Erronka Munduan , San Sebastián, Spain
2023  31st Croatian One Minute Film Festival, Požega, Croatia
2023  VI Festival Internacional de Cineminutos de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (*Honorary mention)
2023  6th International Folklore Film Festival, Kerala, India
2022  Alternative Film/Video, Belgrade, Serbia
2022  Festival Entretodos, São Paulo, Brazil
2022  Pan-Cinema Experimental – Curitiba Int`l Exp. Film Festival, Curitiba, Brazil
2020  9th Tuzla Film Festival, Tuzla, Bosnia
2020  25th Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
2014  Mediterranean Film Festival, Split, Croatia     

Solo exhibitions

2014  Identitet (eng. Identity), Labin Art kolonija, Labin, Croatia

Group exhibitions

Artworks

Film works (selection)

2025  Early Saturday morning, 70′, documentary
2022  Flakes of snow, 14′, documentary
2020  Lanscape Zero, 70′, documentary
2020  Split Screens, 35′, documentary
2014  Vlog,  70′ / 60′, fiction
2012  The father, 22′, fiction

Video works (selection)

2024  El Dorado, 2′, experimental
2023  On the screen, 4′, experimental
2022  A disturbing portrait of a cup, 4′, experimental
2022  The Message, 1′, experimental
2020  Numbers, 4′, experimental
2012  Watching, 5′, video installation
2012  35 faces of homeless, 4′, experimental
2009  In my grave, 2′, experimental

Commercial  works

2022  058 & Dupli – Da mogu hodat po moru, script / director / camera / editor
2020  058 – Role (music video), script / director / camera / editor
2016  058 – Nova priča (music video), script / director / editor
2016  058 – Ljeto (music video), script / director / editor
2016  058 – Vrijeme (music video), script / director / editor
2015  Wines of Dalmatia (promo), director
2014  Visual effects for theatre  performance Martyrdom of Saint Domnius  (dir.: Rade Perković)
2014  Official trailer of Split film festival

Workshops

2024  FEATURELAB INDUSTRY DAY, Torino Film Lab, Opatija, Croatia
2020  Docu Talents From The East @Sarajevo FF, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2016/2017  Ex Oriente Film, Split / Jihlava / Prague, Croatia / Czech Republic
2014. Balkan film connection, Beograd, Serbia
2011  Mediterranean Film Festival, Filminkubator, Split, Croatia
2008  Zagreb Jewish film festival, Documentary film workshop, Zagreb, Croatia
2007  9. Škola medijske kulture dr. Ante Peterlić, Feature film workshop
2006  Kinoklub Zagreb, Scriptwriting, directing, camera and editing workshop

Residencies

2015.  45.FAMA, The international artistic campus, Swinoujscie, Poland

Curator/Jury member

2022  Split Videoart Festival – Antiwar Edition, Split, Croatia, director and curator
2022  Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia, Jury member – Competiton features
2021  International Contemporary and Video ArtFestival Waterpieces, Riga, Latvia, 1st Split Videoart Festival selection, curator
2021  OVER THE REAL – Festival Internazionale di Videoarte, Lucca,Italy, 2nd Split Videoart Festival selection, curator
2021. 2nd Split Videoart Festival, Split, Croatia, director and curator
2020. 1st Split Videoart Festival, Split, Croatia, founder/director and curator

Features/Essays/Publications

2022  Superpresent, Vol 4, No 2, Spring 2024
2022  Stvaranje hibridnog filma – kako je nastao Nulti krajolik, Hrvatski filmski ljetopis – 109 / 2022.
2014  Kako je nastao Vlog, Zapis, Br. 78, HFS

Teaching

2022   Creative video workshop, workshop leader for elementary school students, Split, Croatia (University of Split)
2014.  Škola o medijima 2014: „Mladi u javnom prostoru medija“, predavač na temu „Fotografija“, Split, Croatia (eng. School about media, teacher – photography workshop)

Memberships

Croatian association of visual artists (HULU-Split)
Croatian Film Directors’ Guild (DHFR)