Female directors in Croatian documentary production

Naked Island

Tiha K. Gudac

Some sixty years ago, a man went missing for four years. He returned a changed man, carrying a painful secret. He built his family’s life around this unspoken secret - talking about the past was not allowed. It was his granddaughter, the director of this film, who first started asking questions, wanting to find out what lay hidden beneath her grandfather’s scar-covered body ever since childhood. However, he died without revealing the entire story to anyone. Naked Island is an investigation built upon the ruins of the past, a mosaic made up of clues – family photos and intimate testimonies of a tight-knit group of people who were brought together by the same place, a political prison in ex-Yugoslavia, also known as an island of broken souls, and the consequences which the place left on three generations.

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Tiha K. Gudac

Tiha K. Gudac is a filmmaker based in Croatia, where she’s working as a director, scriptwriter and producer. She has directed two feature length documentary films: Naked Island (Factum / Croatia, 2014), and The Wire (Off World / Belgium, Kinoteka /Croatia, URGH!&RTVSLO Slovenia, Relation 04 Media/ Norway, InScript Media / Lithuania, 2021), which have won awards at international documentary film festivals and have had an international theatrical, TV and educational distribution. In the recent years she has directed, written and co-produced documentary series programmes and a film for Croatian national TV broadcaster HRT. As a producer she has independently produced and worked on: film festivals, as well as fiction, documentary, and animated films, commercial and TV formats, some of which were awarded, or box office success. Her early work background was marked by years of involvement with the NGO sector, developing international dialogue building and conflict resolution projects, as well as working in PR and acting in theatre projects. She has an MA as a Master of Film Arts and an MA in Business Marketing. She is a member of Director’s Guild of Croatia, Croatian Filmmaker Association and Croatian Independent Artists Association.

General sponsor

Goli

Croatia
2014, 75'

Directed by:
Tiha K. Gudac

Screenplay by:
Tiha Gudac

Cinematography:
Eva Kraljević, Tamara Cesarec, Srđan Kovačević, Tiha Gudac

Edited by:
Dragan Petrović

Music:
Dubravko Robić

Producer:
Nenad Puhovski

Produced by:
Factum

Festivals & Awards:

Sarajevo Film Festival 2014 – Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary Film
Zagreb Film Festival 2014 – Special Mention Documentary Film
Međunarodni filmski festival u Trstu 2014 – Trieste Film Festival – CEI Award 
Sofia International Film Festival 2015 – Special Mention
Liburnia Film Festival 2015 – Best film, Best editing
Documentary Film Festival Ljubljana – Amnesty International Slovenia Award for Best Documentary
Martovski Festival – Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival 2015 – Golden Medal for Best Director, Audience Award, Golden Medal for Best Production
International Film Festival Cinema City 2015 – Audience award, Special mention in Fresh Danube Films selection
Dokufest 2014
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2015
Vilnius Film Festival "Kino Pavasaris" 2015
Open City London Documentary Film Festival 2015
Pula Film Festival 2015
Aye-Aye International Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine 2015
LET’S CEE Film Festival 2015
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival 2015
Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen de Bruxelles 2015
Festival filma o ljudskim pravima Ubrzaj 2014

Contact:

Factum
Nova Ves 18
10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
T. +38514854821
E. info@factum.com.hr