Hand-drawn animation/Croatia/2014/2’46”. (Original Title: Z Z ZMAJ) Dir: Lucija Majnarić (17-year-old), Marija Nikolić (15-year-old)
An old dragon asleep on the mountain. Every thousand years or so, someone comes to bother the dragon. And what to do, but blow them away? Japan Premiere!
Credits:
Creators: Lucija Majnarić, Marija Nikolić
Music ‘Crazy Glue’ by Josh Woodword
Available on the Free Music Archive http://www.freemusicarchive.org
under CC by licenses creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Bio:
Lucija Majnarić (1998) and Marija Nikolić (2000) attending high school and are the authors of several short animations and fiction films.
Filmography: – Darts, 2013, fiction, 4:27
– Dragon, 2014, animation, 2:46
– Let’s go somewhere, 2016, animation, 2:56
Awards:
– Grand Prix, 3rd Dubrovnik film festival DUFF, Dubrovnik 2014, Croatia
– Award to the most innovative short film, II. International Youth Film Festival Plasencia Encorto, Plasencia, Spain 2015
– 2. award Blue VAFI, 6th VAFI – International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Varaždin 2015, Croatia
– Special prize of Jury, 15. The Unprecedented Cinema, Maardu, Estonia 2015
– best animation, 20. youth film festival, Karlovac 2015, Croatia
– bronze medal, UNICA 2015, Sankt Petersburg, Rusia
– Best of the best, 20. Festival de Cine de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 2015
FKVK Zaprešić (stands for: Photo-cinema-video club Zaprešić) is a non-profit association of citizens and was founded in 1995 by a few enthusiast as a part of the Union of technical culture. Our mainly task is work with the children and youth in which, trough the process of making the videos of all genres, we trying to help youths to express their feelings, opinion, attitudes and ways of looking on the world. Lucija started coming in our club when she was 10 yo, and from that moment she collaborated on over twenty films which are mostly animation. Marija came in club couple years later with Lucija because they live near each other and they are best friends. They often work together with other members of the club, but occasionally they make films alone.