Karlo Gagulić is the director and screenwriter of the film, which will be screened for the first time at an international festival where it will compete for an international award.
First-year undergraduate student of the Film, Television and Multimedia Design program at VERN' University, Karlo Gagulić , will have the premiere of his third film "The School That Doesn't Exist" at the "13th Youth Film Festival in Sarajevo" where he will compete for the main prize.
"The script was created in the course of Vinko Brešan, who gave us the first assignment to write a script, which is also a part of our autobiography. Since I had an interesting experience with high school, more precisely it turned out that I went to a school that ended up in bankruptcy, and we found out about it on television, I decided to show that grotesque thing through a film, to which I also added a bit of fiction" , explained Karlo.
He points out that he quickly assembled a team, they auditioned and got to work, but is the award important to him?
"Honestly, the award is not that important to me, it's more important to me to travel with the film and show the audience what we've made. I'm very grateful to all the people on set, the producers, the technicians, the actors, VERN' for providing me with the equipment, the Blank association that also helped us with the equipment, the numerous sponsors who made sure we weren't hungry and thirsty on set, etc. By the way, interestingly, my first feature film "Ship in a Bottle" which I made just for the VERN' entrance exam also made it to this festival and is competing for the award, so this year I'm going to Sarajevo with two of my films."
Our Karlo is the main screenwriter and director of the film "The School That Doesn't Exist", while the other roles went to: Kaja Šišmanović (assistant director), Nina Kukec (producer), Karl Špoljar (director of photography), Rene Recek (assistant cameraman), Jura Režić (assistant cameraman and gaffer), Luka Vukorep (additional lighting engineer), Vjeko Zuhrić Novaković and Martin Momčinović (sound engineers), Ivan Matana (sound editing), Antonio Perina (ADR) and Luka Ćevid (original music composer).
The film stars: Karlo Maloča, Lav Novosel, Andrija Žunac, Mihael Kuzmičić, Josip Štirinić, Anđela Ramljak, Goran Navojec, Nataša Dangubić, Darko Janeš, Doris Šarić-Kukuljica, Nikša Butijer, Mario Gaćina, Ivano Črep, Bartol Grozdek, Mark Fejer, Antun Antolović, Matija Ivezić, Jan Rajšel, Matija Hajdarhodžić and Nina Kukec.
The Sarajevo festival takes place from July 21st to 24th, and until then you can watch teasers for both of Karl's films.
We wish Karl much success!
