Fedor Škubonja (22 July 1924 – 24 April 2008) was a Yugoslav and Croatian film director.

Biography

Škubonja spent most of his career making

children's film A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that contains children or relates to them in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films ar ...

s. His most notable film was the award-winning 1960 Yugoslav film ''The Lost Pencil'' ( hr, Izgubljena olovka), which won the Golden Lion for Best Children's Film at the 1961

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...

, and was named as one of the top ten children's films of all time at the 1966

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. His other notable film was the 1969 film ''Downstream from the Sun'' (''Nizvodno od sunca''), a social drama set in a remote mountain village, which earned him a

Golden Arena for Best Director The Golden Arena for Best Director ''( Croatian: Zlatna arena za režiju'') is an award given for best director at the Pula Film Festival, which was until 1992 the Yugoslav equivalent of the Academy Awards. Since 1992 and the breakup of Yugosl ...

at the 1969

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. Škubonja was married to screenwriter Stanislava Borisavljević who wrote screenplays for most of his films.

References

External links

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Fedor Škubonja biography
at Filmski-Programi.hr
Fedor Škubonja's obituary
at

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