About the festival: Festival staff
Mirjana Mia Pecina
Festival Director
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Mia started her career in TV production and marketing on Croatian-American Television that she co-founded during her University years in Chicago, while graduating in Marketing and Management. After five years in USA she decided to move back to Europe. During the next three years she worked as an Account Director in the most successful PR agency in Croatia, 'Premisa', with clients such as Microsoft, Siemens Mobile, Nike, Croatian Telecom/Tmobile, and humanitarian project "Let Them Hear", Int'l Assoc. of Business Communicators 2002 world award winner! During her years with 'Premisa' she continued to produce a weekly TV overview show "Kapital". Three years later, she decided to pursue her dream of film production in Los Angeles. Since then Mia has been working in theatrical distribution, marketing and film production for various companies. After four very successful years as the Festival Director for Libertas Film Festival, she is looking forward to its 5th edition in the summer of 2009.
Stjepan Hundic
Director of Programming
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For the past 17 years, Stjepan has been working as a film journalist (critic, reporter, reviewer, correspondent, editor). He has published three books (interviews with some of the best known international names in the film industry) and is a regular guest at the most important film festivals around the world (Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Sundance, Locarno). He has been a Member of Croatian Society of Film Critics since 1992 and FIPRESCI since 1991. In his recent years Stjepan was an Editor-in-Chief of Total Film (Croatian edition of the well known British film monthly). Stjepan received a personal congratulations note from the Berlin Film Festival on a great 2006 program.
Petra Čakarun
Festival Coordinator
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In 2008 Petra graduated on Zagreb's Faculty of Political science and her majors were radio journalism/public relations. She developed an interest in PR working in the non – government sector in which she organized numerous national and international seminars and humanitarian projects. As a part of her college education she did her PR internship in a leading PR agency "Premisa". She also worked on Cro-a-Porter and on the first Category management conference.

Vanja Vascarac
Short Film Program Director
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Vanja is a young Croatian director and producer that graduated film and television at the Savannah College of Art and Design in USA. He wrote and directed a number of shorts, and his film 'Insomniac' was the first Croatian short film, since the independence of Croatia, shown in Cannes Film Festival in the Director's Forthnight Program.
Nataša Radanović
Assistant to festival director
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Natasa revealed her love for TV and the media during her student years when working as a journalist at a local TV station, Z1. She successfully edited and presented a lifestyle show ''Zagrebacka spica'' and cooperated in selecting a programmes content on the city TV on the whole. She also cooperated in the outsource production of an IT show ''Novi Milenij'' dedicated to new technologies and IT trends. At the same time, she  assited in operational support in organising Weekend Media Festival, one of the big projects of the leading event management company DA!. Currently, she's about to graduate at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb, Croatia and this year she received an opportunity to assist a Director of Libertas in creating a young and successful film festival.

Ivana Lukacevic
Public Relations and Media
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Ivana began her career in public relations in Premisa, Croatia's largest company specialising in public relations, where she was responsible for organising many national projects. She gained additional experience in communications management and production in a PR department within a firm Oceanfilm and in cooperation with a consultancy PRiredba. She was also in charge of public relations for many national projects, companies and clients in publishing, street fashion and corporate security sectors. Moreover, working as a PR account manager in Polikom, PR consultancy, she gained further proficiency in strategic communication and crisis management. She built on her knowledge and experience in the field of communications and completed specialised programmes designed for PR practitioners at Cambridge Marketing College and  Chartered Institute of Public Relations in London.

Marin Rajčić
Art Director festivala
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Marin Rajčić has more than 15 years of experience in web and graphical design. He is the co-owner and director of Demode d.o.o., firm specializing in web and graphical design and partial partner in Median et d.o.o., firm specializing in web development. Prior to establishing Demode, he worked in several leading IT companies (Vodatel, Metronet). Aside from the mentioned, he also co-developed several unique internet-based projects like the first Croatian full-scale web portal for students and the first full-scale web portal for demo musicians. Over the last 10 years, Marin has successfully conceived and realized more than a hundred websites (Zagreb Airport, Coca-Cola, Euroline, HND (Croatian journalists' association), HINA (Croatian News Agency), etc. He also created and realized many marketing campaigns and developed the design for reputable events like Weekend Media Festival (Art Director), Minival, Plavi zub, Dancing in the street...

Martina Matušin
Event Manager
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After graduating from the Faculty of Theology in Zagreb and working for several years in the entertainment, media and TV businesses (RTL, HTV), she landed a job in Croatia's most successful event agency DA!. In the agency, she is working on organizing corporate events for companies such as Adris Group, Hrvatski telekom, HT Eronet, Hypo Alpe Adria Bank, Kempinski hotel, Vichy and others. However, alongside corporate events, she also participates in organizing and producing sporting, entertainment and media events such as World Handball Championship, award ceremony for daily Vecernji list's TV awards Vecernjakov ekran, rebranding of the town of Umag , Weekend Media Festival. With the establishment of the new creative agency Pepermint, she has taken up the challenge of project management and launched new events which are currently gaining popularity and establishing tradition – D-Day (Design Day), Dancing in the Street Festival, European Waterpolo Championship. She has joined the successful team of the Libertas Film Festival in their 6th issue as the event manager.

 

Ivo Capurso
Program coordinator
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Ivo is a young Croatian and a Dubrovnik local. He left Croatia to attend his last two years of High School in California. Ivo attended Fresno Pacific University where he received his B.A. in International Business. After living in Los Angeles for several years, Ivo furthered his interest in movies by working for Warner Brothers. In 2009 he returned to Dubrovnik and has recently joined the Libertas Film Festival team in early 2010. Ivo is also strongly interested in writing/composing movie music which has been his passion since childhood.

Maro Drobnić
Event Coordinator
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Maro joined Libertas FF's team in 2006. He is involved with Lero Theatre Company as an amateur actor. Maro is also interested in production.