Curriculum Vitae
Lea Vidakovic
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Lea Vidakovic
Citation names
- Vidakovic, Lea
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7418-E1E1-C645
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0005-7136-181X
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LSSQYP0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&gmla=AMpAcmS27XDp0BK-2UkHId4BhFm8Pv07x7y6sQ1a__cj-oMYqre-DtEpzfzxrE_P1RfvwULRHOMlOvG742gWVSaA
Email addresses
- lea.leavidakovic@gmail.com (Personal)
Addresses
- Universidade Lusófona. Campo Grande, 376, 1200-293, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- http://leavidakovic.com/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Serbo-Croatian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Hungarian (Mother tongue) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2014/08/01 - 2020/01/01
Concluded
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PhD in Animation studies (Doktor (PhD))
Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media, Singapore
"Fragmented Narratives in Space: Exploring Storytelling Approaches for Animated Installations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011/10/01 - 2012/06/06
Concluded
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MA in audio-visual arts (Master)
Hogeschool Gent School of Arts, Belgium
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2007/08/01 - 2010/06/01
Concluded
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BA in Animation (Bachelor)
Høgskulen i Volda, Norway
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2008/09 - 2009/02
Concluded
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Animation (Glamorgan Univeristy) (Bachelor)
Major in Puppet animation
University of South Wales School of Art and Design, United Kingdom
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2008/07 - 2008/08
Concluded
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Art installation and performance (Magister)
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
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2004/09/22 - 2007/06/01
Concluded
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Graphic art and painting (Bachelor)
Sveucili¿te u Zagrebu Akademija likovnih umjetnosti, Croatia
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Affiliation
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021/09/01 - Current | Assistant professor | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2016/01 - 2018/06 | Teaching assistant | Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media, Singapore |
| Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media, Singapore |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/01/01 - 2025/06/30 | Animation for Health and Wellbeing in Hospital Waiting Spaces
Principal investigator
COFAC - Cooperativa de Formação e Animação Cultural CRL, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal |
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/06/05 | "Emerging Interactive Narrative Techniques in different platforms like games, films and animation" | FilmEU Summit, Navigating the Future
VSMU https://www.vsmu.sk (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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| 2024/01/15 | "Trambling" | 8th performing conference
ZeKaeM, Youth theater (Zagreb, Croatia)
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| 2023/12/08 | "Animation and the fleeting impermanence of memories and recollections" | EXPOSIUM - Non-fiction animation and memory
LUCA school of arts (Brussels, Belgium)
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| 2023/06/15 | “Narrative aspects of animated installations” | JSAS with SAS conference “Gaps and Spaces”
Yokohama national university, Japan (Yokohama, Japan)
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| 2023/06/14 | "Exploring and Re-articulating Visual Storytelling for Animation in Spatial Context: The Family Portrait animated installation" | SAS 34th Annual conference - society for animation studies
Rowan University, US (United States)
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| 2023/04/27 | "Traditional puppet animation in expanded media" | FMX Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Immersive Media
Filmakademie’s Animationsinstitut, Haus der Wirtschaft (Stuttgart, Germany)
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| 2022/11 | "Regional work in progress: Lea Vidakovic: Family Portrait" | Animateka PRO 2022
Animateka (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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| 2022/06/06 | “Animated installations in hospital environment: applied animation in the service of healthcare” co-authored with Dr Art Melinda Sefcic | IX Animafest Scanner
Animafest (Zagreb, Croatia)
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| 2022/05/02 | “On Gaps and Silences: Sound Experiments in Multi-screen Animated Installations” | Sound and Screen Conference 2022
Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media (Singapore, Singapore)
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| 2021 | “Expanding bodies: Re-imagining the place of puppets in contemporary animation” | Bringing Legacy to Life - Stop Motion Conference
Animation Research Network Scotland, Edinburgh College of Art (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2021 | Masterclass: Exploring narratives for expanded animation | Cinanima masterclass
Cinanima / ESAD (Matosinhos, Portugal)
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| 2019/06 | “Handwoven tales in contemporary context: the transformation and transposition of traditional animation techniques to environments beyond the screen” | 31th Annual Conference of the Society of Animation Studies: Animation is a place
Lusofona University, Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/06 | "Telling Without Telling: Animated Stories Beyond The Screen” | 30th Annual Conference of the Society of Animation Studies: Then, Now, Next
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (Montreal, Canada)
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| 2018 | “Fragmented narratives in animated installations: telling a story in space” | Animation Symposium at Animanima animation festival
Animanima animation festival (Cacak, Serbia)
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| 2016 | “Alternative narrative structures in a spatial context: new approaches in animation storytelling¿” | 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Animation Studies: The Cosmos of Animation
Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media (Singapore, Singapore)
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| 2016 | “Animation installation and spatial storytelling” | Symposium Narrative Structures and Visual Storytelling
Literaturhaus Stuttgart, Germany (Stuttgart, Germany)
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2022/05 | External examiner - MA thesis "Proposing an Improved workflow for Independent Animation-making in Ebsynth through Introducing Enhanced Trackable Patterns and Textures" | Leon Brakstad Valdersnes (Master)
Hogskulen i Volda Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og historie, Norway
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| 2021/09 | External examiner - MA thesis "Avesso (in)visível: Experimental Expanded Animation and Craft Aesthetics" | Samira Machado Poffo (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2021/09/01 - Current | CICANT - Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies | |
| 2015/05/01 - Current | SAS - Society of Animation Studies | |
| 2012/09 - Current | HDLU - Association of Croatian Artists | |
| 2012/02/01 - Current | SULUV - Association of Artists from Vojvodina |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/01 - 2025/01 | 1st Early Career Scholars Conference - reviewer
Other
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Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/09/16 - Current | Scriptwriting for MA | Scriptwriting (Mestrado) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2023/09/11 - Current | Stop motion animation for MA students | Stop motion animation (Mestrado) | |
| 2021/09/06 - Current | Photography in animation | (Bacharelato) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2021/09 - Current | Courses on puppet building, puppet animation and photography in animation | Puppet building, puppet animation, photography in animation (Outros) | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal |
| 2023/09/15 - 2025/01/18 | ARA 1 - Animation - Final project co-mentoring with Prof João Miguel Real | Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal | |
| 2024/05 - 2024/05 | Erasmus + staff mobility - Puppet making course | New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria | |
| 2023/04/17 - 2023/04/21 | Animated installations and traditional animation techniques - the exchange was realised by Erasmus+ mobility grant for teachers | Expanded animation (Bachelor) | Høgskulen i Volda, Norway |
| 2022/10/18 - 2022/10/21 | Workshop - Puppet animation beyond the screen (in a gallery/museum context) The program was realized with the Erasmus + mobility support for teaching | Expanded animation (Bachelor) | Ecole européenne supérieure de l'image, France |
| 2021/11/15 - 2021/11/18 | Expanded animation workshop by Lea Vidakovic coordinated by Claire Fouquet (EESI, Angouleme, France) The program was realized with the Erasmus + mobility support for teaching | (Bachelor) | Ecole européenne supérieure de l'image, France, France |
| 2016/01 - 2018/06 | Teaching assistant for puppet and stop motion animation | Stop motion and puppet animation (Bachelor) | Nanyang Technological University School of Art Design and Media, Singapore |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2024/12/06 | 2025 Oscars Short Film Contenders: ‘The Family Portrait’ Director Lea Vidakovic | Cartoon brew |
| 2024/11/06 | Animation can live anywhere - interview about the Family portrait film and other works | VIZKULTURA |
| 2023/06/01 | Expanding the space for narration: A talk with multimedia artist Lea Vidakovic about her theoretical and practical research into alternative possibilities for creating and exhibiting animated works. | Kulturpunkt.hr / Kinemaskop / HAVC |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2024 - Current | 31st Europena Film Festival Palic, Serbia | Interview about the Family portrait film |
| 2024 - 2024 | New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival Program / Tennoz art week | The new visual installation ‘Touch on an Absence’ by the artist Tabaimo, in collaboration with three filmmakers who are nominees for the Short Film category in NEW CHITOSE 2023, is held in Tokyo in July 2024. Tennoz art week |
| 2023/09/27 - 2023/10/01 | Stop trick animation film festival rapid interviews | interview about The Family Portrait and animation in general |
| 2021/11/16 - 2021/11/16 | Lea Vidakovic - online masterclass, CINANIMA festival at ESAD. | Lea Vidakovic (Serbia), a multimedia artist who works in the field of art installation and puppet animation, presents an online masterclass, within the scope of the CINANIMA festival at ESAD. The 45th edition of the festival runned from 8 to 14 November, |
| 2021/03/11 - 2021/03/31 | Missing stories: Museum of contemporary Art, Vojvodina - artist statement | Lea Vidakovic - Statement on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition “Missing Stories. Forced Labor under Nazi Occupation. An Artistic Approach ” in the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, 11.03.2021 Lea Vidakovic and Selman Trtovac f |
| 2019/11/09 - 2019/11/09 | Opusteno | Interview with Lea Vidakovic about Memento and other artworks, Subotica, Serbia |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
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| 2023/03/01 - Current | Exploration of similarities and differences in puppets for theater plays and puppets for animated films | Lorna Kauzlaric |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/09 - 2024/09 | Jury member - World animation film festival, Varna, Bulgaria | |
| 2022 - 2022 | Jury member, main short film competition,MONSTRA animation festival, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| 2021 - 2021 | Preselection committee member for student films, Animafest Zagreb, Croatia | |
| 2019 - 2019 | Balkanima, jury for best student animation films, Belgrade, Serbia | |
| 2018 - 2018 | Animanima, Jury for best children animation film, Cacak, Serbia | |
| 2018 - 2018 | Constantin’s golden coin animation festival , jury for animated films, Nis, Serbia |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Best performance and animation
PIAFF Paris international animation festival, France
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| 2024 | Best Animation film
Ismailia International film festival, Egypt
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| 2024 | Tricky women – Tricky realities award
Tricky Women Festival, Austria
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| 2024 | Best animation award
Martovski festival Documentary and short film festival, Serbia
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| 2024 | Rigo Mora Award
Festival Int. de Cine en Guadalajara Cineteca FICG, Mexico
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| 2024 | Honorable mention for short animation film
SMOF, Stop motion our fest, Argentina
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| 2024 | Best Balkan film
Anibar, Kosovo
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| 2024 | Best short film
Bang awards, Portugal
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| 2024 | Best of the best film award
T-short film festival, Germany
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| 2024 | Special award
Animfilm Int. animation festival, Azerbaijan
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| 2024 | Best sound and music award
Emile – European animation awards, Greece
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| 2024 | Nomination award for animation film
Cyber Sousa Film Festiva, China
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| 2024 | Special mention
Warshaw Animation Film Festival, Poland
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| 2024 | 2nd award for best animated film
3in1 Film festival, Portugal
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| 2024 | Grand Prix
Salsa International Without Dialog Film Festival, Germany
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| 2024 | Best animated film
International Film Festival of Larissa – Thessaly, Greece
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| 2024 | Award for best set design
Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Croatia
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| 2024 | Award for best directing
Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Croatia
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| 2024 | Best woman director award
Cortoons festival, Spain
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| 2024 | Honorable mention
Animatou, Switzerland
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| 2024 | Augusto al mejor - best animation short film
Festival de cine de Zaragoza, Spain
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| 2023 | Special mention for animated film
XI Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Film Festival, Russia
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| 2023 | Grand Prix
Animist Tallin, International animation festival, Estonia, Estonia
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| 2023 | Grand Prix of the 19th World festival of animated films, Varna, Bulgaria
World festival of animated films, Bulgaria
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| 2023 | Grand Prix of Balkanima animation fetsival 2023
Balkanima animation festival, Serbia
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| 2023 | Special mention
LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Arts Festival, Ukraine
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| 2023 | Honorable mention
Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan
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| 2023 | Special jury award
New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Japan
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| 2023 | Jury's special award
CINANIMA animation festival, Portugal
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| 2023 | Best film for adults
Tofuzi International Animated Film Festival, Georgia
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| 2023 | Grand prize
MORC Stop-motion Animation Festival, Japan
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| 2023 | Best animation film award
Aguilar Film fetsival, Spain
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| 2023 | Silver brick award for best animation film
Animax Skopje animation festival, Macedonia
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| 2021 | Award for the animation workshop film done during Museum’s night in Serbia, at the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Subotica, Serbia |
| 2020 | Award for pitching (The Family Portrait)
ANIMARKT pitching forum, Poland
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| 2019 | Animateka PRO pitch winner (The Family Portrait)
ANIMATEKA PRO, Slovenia
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| 2019 | CEE animation pitch forum award (The Family Portrait)
CEE animation forum, Czech Republic
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| 2017 | Best animated film special mention (The Vast Landscape) - Zsigmond Vilmost Film Festival, Hungary |
| 2017 | Best animation (The Vast Landscape) - Global Short Film Awards Film Festival, Cannes, France |
| 2017 | Special mention ¿ FIFFA, (The Vast Landscape) Formosa Festival of Int Filmmaker Awards, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 2016 | Special mention (The Vast Landscape) - 7th Balkan Beyond Borders Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria |
| 2016 | Distinction (The Vast Landscape) - 2nd Animation Marathon, Greece |
| 2016 | Honourable mention (The Vast Landscape) - XI festival international de cine rural + indigent arica nativa |
| 2016 | Best first film (The Vast Landscape) - Festival International du Film d'Animation de Paris, France |
| 2016 | Narrative award (The Vast Landscape) - Rush process festival of handcrafted animation, Texas, US |
| 2016 | Award for outstanding set design (Sisters) – Autumn Shorts Film Festival Somerset, Kentucky, US |
| 2016 | Audience award (Sisters) – Start Film Fest, Sisak, Croatia |
| 2016 | Third award – short film category (Sisters) – Fem Tour Truck, Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Ecuador |
| 2015 | Best experimental animation film (Sisters), Encontrarte Amares, Portugal |
| 2015 | Honorary mention (The Vast Landscape) - Athens International Digital Film Festival AIDFF, Greece |
| 2015 | Special mention (The Vast Landscape) - Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| 2015 | Second award (The Vast Landscape) - International Festival of Puppet Theatre and Animated Film for Adults, Warshav, Poland |
| 2015 | Best animation film (The Vast Landscape) - III Festival Brasil de Cinema International, Brasil |
| 2015 | Best animation film(The Vast Landscape) - WatchOut! Film Festival, Tetovo, Macedonia |
| 2015 | Honorary mention (The Vast Landscape) - Animfest, Athens, Greece |
| 2014 | Best narration (Sisters) – Multivision, Video Installations Competition at the Erarta Museum of the Contemporary Art, Russia |
| 2014 | Best animation (Sisters) - Early bird student film festival, Bulgaria |
| 2014 | Best cinematography (Sisters) - Early bird student film festival, Bulgaria |
| 2014 | Best artsy short film (Sisters) - Cine Campus – international student's film festival, Puerto Rico |
| 2014 | Audience choice award (Sisters) - Cinema Monsters Film Festival, Huntingdon, Pensilvania, USA |
| 2014 | Special mention (The Vast Landscape) - Filmski Front, Novi Sad, Serbia |
| 2013 | Award for best animation film (Sisters) - Watch Out Film Festival – Tetovo, Macedonia |
| 2013 | Honorary award (Sisters) - International film festival ZOOM ZBLIZENIA, Jelenia Gora, Poland |
| 2013 | Best sound decision (Sisters) Unprecedented cinema, Nevidanoe kino, Tallin, Estonia |
| 2013 | Dr Ferenc Bodrogvari award for art, Subotica, Serbia |
| 2012 | Second prize (Crossed sild) - Athens international animation festival, Greece |
| 2011 | Best art installation (Splendid Isolation) - at Art festival S¿UND, Art Center, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2011 | Best stop motion animation movie (Crossed sild) - student animation festival, Toronto, Canada |
| 2011 | Brozn Pegasus (Crossed sild) - animation festival ANIMATOR, Poznan, Poland |
| 2011 | Special prize (Crossed sild) - 14. International Film Festival 'Zoom Zblizenia', Poland |
| 2008 | Rector's award for the artwork 'Interior of a heart’, Academy of Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Sveucili¿te u Zagrebu Akademija likovnih umjetnosti, Croatia
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| 2007 | Dean's award for works in 2006/2007, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Sveucili¿te u Zagrebu Akademija likovnih umjetnosti, Croatia
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| 2006 | Dean’s award for works done in 2004/2005, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Sveucili¿te u Zagrebu Akademija likovnih umjetnosti, Croatia
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Other distinction
| 2025 | Animated short film nominee for Cezar 2025
Academie des Cezar, France
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| 2025 | Oscars 2025 qualifying short animation film - long list
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, United States
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