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MAŠA DRNDIĆ

Artist, designer, cinematographer and documentary filmmaker.

Born in 1982.

 

Maša Drndić began her  artist career at the academy of Applied Arts Rijeka Croatia where she completed BA and MA degrees in Printmaking Arts. 

 

During her art studies Maša has been accepted for a documentary school held by French Atelier Varan in 2007 where she made documentary-autobiography "My Belgrade" and decided to continue filmmaking. After gaining her MA Degree in arts  at she has been invited for  Aristoteles workshop sponsored by the Arte Chanel where she directed a film “In the Shadow” and enrolled in MA studies in cinematography at Baltic Film School ,  where she has graduated in January of 2011.

 

Maša Drndić directed eight documentary films and worked on over a dozen short fiction films as a cinematographer, editor and camera assistant, many of which received recognition and awards. 

 

In her works Maša often focuses on the relationship between locations and their inhabitants, while exploring individual as well as collective expressions of identity, belonging, memories, dreams and desires.

 

As a freelancer in photography, design and filmmaking Maša worked  and cooperated with numerous Croatian and International  publishing houses, cultural organizations, theaters , artist groups  and festivals

Four of her book cover designs published by the Istrian Branch of The Society of Croatian Writers, have been chosen in the selection of the best designed books in 2007 and 2008 in Croatia, and were presented at the Book Art International Exhibition at the Frankfurt Book Fair  as well as at the  Leipzig Book Fair exhibition  of Best Designed Books From All Over the World.

 

Besides being active in filmmaking, art  and design Maša Drndić is also engaged in teaching as well as planning, curating and promoting educational and cultural projects and events. She is one of the co-founders of Student Cultural Center Rijeka as well as art director and main selector for Student International Film festival (STIFF), Croatia.

 

In the last couple of years she mentors documentary and  video workshops organized by HRSI Human Rights Initiative (Central European University), Hungary as well as “Dokumetar project” in Tbilisi, Georgia and RegPol2, Cluj, Romania.

 

 

 

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