IVA ŠEGOVIĆ. What defines me in work, and in life in general, is first of all temperament, optimism, positive attitude, humor, curiosity, research, and most of all the innate ability to gather and connect people (often incompatible!). Many moves and decisive choices in my youth, at least as far as I’m concerned, are clearly the result of the subconscious, of what we really want, and what we’re not fully aware of. Such was my rash decision to replace numbers, analyzes and graphs of economics with the study of preschool education. and forever become richer for hundreds of children who, even when they grow up and become parents themselves, will always be my kids. And I am their, slightly unusual, loud, smiling, singing, but dear and favorite aunt. My city and my kindergarten provided me with the best possible framework for professional development, learning, improvement, exchange of experiences, realization of new ideas, implementation of projects. There, I presented our country and the positive practices of our preschool education in the best possible way. Regardless of the same education, each educator develops some kind of more pronounced interest that makes the greatest contribution to the team. I definitely found myself in music, stage expression, communication, design and program management, but I am happy to learn, master and apply some other forms of work.
I believe that lifelong learning is really not a phrase, and I took advantage of the opportunity and completed my graduate studies and earned a master’s degree in early and preschool education.

PIA NIKOLIĆ was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is an editor of the magazine Megafon and has her talk show (In vivo veritas) and show about film (Iiin … Akcija!) on Megafon TV. She is a sociologist, who started to work in the field of comics in 2013, when she started the only radio show about comics in Slovenia (Stripofilija at Radio Študent Ljubljana), which she still edits today. This is also the year she started to write reviews of comics, do the interviews and other articles about comics, which she already published in Mladina, Literatura, Apokalipsa, Stripburger, Ekran, etc. She is a member of the organizational board of monthly events about comics in Kino Šiška (Razlita Tinta) and all three Slovene comic festivals (Festival stripa Tinta Ljubljana, Festival of Fantasy and Comics Grossmann, Celje Comic Festival). She was also participating in round tables and with lectures at Zagreb festival of comics and street art (OHOHO) and Balkanska smotra mladih strip autora (Leskovac). She is also the founder of Comic Ccorner at Slovene Book Fair and a counselor for the award Golden Pear for quality books for children and youth. Occasionally she lectures to librarians all over Slovenia, who cooperate in the project Reading Badge. From the beginning, she is coordinating the main award for comics in Slovenia Zlatirepec, which she connected to the international award for translation in comics Sophie Castille Award, which is going to be handed out in Slovenia for the first time this year. She is a president of Slovene Association of Comics and Similar Sequential Art Packa, with which she already organized an exhibition of Slovene comics, cooperated in international 24-hour drawing of comics for two times already, organized comic olympic games on air at Radio Student, comic quiz, etc. Since 2017 she has been directing live comics, with which she invented a special form of synchronization of one comic panel at the time (which is displayed on a big screen) with a group of radio moderators who play roles and a technician who takes care of foleys, atmospheres and music. With seven different live comic events they have been performing all over Slovenia, in Zagreb and in October they will perform in Berlin. She is also regularly lecturing, leading workshops and round tables in the field of comics.

PAKITO BOLINO (FR) is a multi-track artist, screen printer, comic book author, exhibition curator, editor and musician. His publishing house, Le Dernier Cri, founded in 1993, allows him to do only what is close to his heart: he publishes his works and those of others in screen-printed books with limited editions, he makes films whose madness goes beyond imagination, organizes residencies, exhibitions and micropublishing fairs. Its nervous line, associated with saturated compositions, evokes both the ultra-liberated figuration of Robert Combas and Gary Panter, as well as the Heta-Uma aesthetic of the Japanese artists close to the Garo magazine. Le Dernier Cri is also a collective of extraordinary artists who evolve at the antipodes of narrative and conventional illustration, unceremoniously exploring the field of wild images. A universe that is often destabilizing, raw, obsessive and instinctive. Based in Marseille, on the Friche de la Belle de Mai site, Le Dernier Cri is recognized worldwide thanks to the energy and pugnacity of its instigator. The collective is also the author of several animated films such as Les religions sauvage, which brings together more than thirty artists, or Mondo DC which you will have the chance to discover during this festival with a live soundtrack. Impossible to label, Le Dernier Cri doesn’t fit into any box and that’s a good thing!

GORAN DUPLANČIĆ, born in 1972 in Split. He has been fond of drawing and comics since childhood. Although he made thousands of drawings and started dozens of comics during his childhood, he nevertheless decided on a more “serious” career and became a scientist, a theoretical physicist at the Ruđer Bošković Institute. He returned to comics at the end of 2007, thanks to the Internet and comics initiatives initiated by Darko Macan. The old love rekindled and since then he publishes short comics more or less regularly on the Internet and in various comic magazines, and he was also one of the editors of the online comic monthly MojStrip. He became more widely known after the publication of the autobiographical comic strip “Vojna”, which was first serialized on the Internet and eventually published classically, on paper. The comic follows the experiences of conscripts of the JNA who found themselves on the “aggressor” side in the Slovenian War of Independence in 1991. To the author’s surprise, “Vojna” was a real hit and in a year and a half it saw three editions (two in Croatia and one in Slovenia). In the form of an album, he also published a collection of comics made during the comic marathon “24 hours of comic drawing”.

WINNER IN COMPETITION OF SHORT STUDENTS ANIMATED FILMS

SWIFTS – ADA NAPIÓRKOWSKI

Is it the menacing ticking of a clock, a distorted heartbeat or the unsettling geometry of dystopian city-scapes? This powerful audio-visual composition engaged our hearts with the masterful fusion of animation and sound design. It filled us with a sense of beauty and insecurity at the same time.

SPECIAL MENTION IN COMPETITION OF SHORT STUDENTS ANIMATED FILMS

HEADPRICKLES

A creative attempt to answer many intrusive thoughts in just one short film.

KEEP OUT

Convincing dystopian vision of our (not so distant) future in virtual reality.

THE EASTERN RAIN

Impressive visual style and convincing animation that uses classical painting techniques.

WINNER IN COMPETITION OF ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO

ILLUSION / HILGEUM – JIN WOO

This brilliant music video guides us through a narrow frontier, right in between illusion and dissillusion.

SPECIAL MENTION IN COMPETITION OF ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO

RANA / PAN PAN – HANA TINTOR

A gorgeous symbiosis of a funky rhythm and imaginative visuals.

SPECIAL MENTION IN COMPETITION OF ANIMATED MUSIC VIDEO

EVENT HORIZON / TIBURONA – PABLO BALLARÍN

WINNER IN COMPETITION OF SHORT ANIMATED FILMS FOR CHILDREN

SPECIAL MENTION IN COMPETITION OF SHORT ANIMATED FILMS FOR CHILDREN

WINNER IN COMPETITION OF COMIC MAGAZINES

StriPREFIKS

Although the winning magazine is printed on shiny paper that makes some darker areas harder to read in direct sunlight, we found the winner very modern-looking. From its quirky cover that attracts the eye to the great variety of different comics this magazine brings out a great contemporary overview of regional comic art. Let us also point out their rubric about technical specifics of comics which the jury found in no other. What this magazine is only missing is another 50 pages of comics.

WINNER IN COMPETITION OF FANZINE EDITIONS

SPUD: THE POTATO KID – ALAN JENNINGS

The award for the best fanzine goes to the author, who did a retro-style comic, leaning to the historical underground style of his home country, history of which he interprets in a fresh way from a new point of view of a very special Irish migrant. Its vivid colors invite different kinds of readers to consume the story and it is just fun to read it. While enjoying many different meals, the jury realized what was missing was a critical potato.

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