Branko Ištvančić (born April 5, 1967) is a

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n film director. Born in

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, Ištvančić graduated from the

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in 1999. Since 2003 he has been employed at the

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, working as a director of documentary films, educational programs, and television series and films. Ištvančić's award-winning documentary '' The Cormorant Scarecrow'' (1998) has been described by Croatian film critics as one of the best Croatian documentary films of the 1990s. His feature film debut, '' The Ghost in the Swamp'', placed 2nd among domestic films in the Croatian box office in 2006. In 2012, he created a film called ''Od zrna do slike'' ( sr, Од зрна до слике, From Grain to Painting), about the

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Croatian straw artists, Ana Milodanović and . The film won the Gold Camera for best documentary at its Los Angeles premiere and in 2013 at the International Festival of Ethnographic Film in

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, won Grand Prize for Best Film. __NOTOC__

Selected filmography

Short films

* ''Saying Goodbye'' (''Rastanak'', 1993) * ''Freeze Frame'' (''Zamrznuti kadar'', 1999)

Documentary films

* '' The Cormorant Scarecrow'' (1998) * ''

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'' (2003) * ''From Grain to Painting'' (2012)

Feature films

* '' The Ghost in the Swamp'' (2006) * '' The Bridge at the End of the World'' (2013)

Sources

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Istvancic, Branko 1967 births Living people Croatian film directors Croatian documentary film directors Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb alumni Croats of Vojvodina Film people from Subotica