We are approaching the 8th edition of Star Film Fest which means that it is the right time to meet our jury this year!
Iva Rosandić is the first member of the jury we present to you! She studied comparative literature, philosophy and librarianship. Iva is best known to the film world as a film critic on the Dokumentarni.net portal and for her work in 2020 she won the award of the Croatian Film Critics Association for the best critic – “Every recognition, especially that of a professional association is important because it encourages further work because conditions of dependence on one-year grants and consequent insecurity, can in itself be demotivating, ” Iva told us.
Film critique is an indispensable part of film culture as any other and if we look at it as a separate discipline. It can provide us with tools for understanding and describing the film process. “Although it is usually perceived as a remote assessment according to unclear criteria, I still think that it is the most important communication role it can take, as well as the fact that it reflects the processes that takes place throughout the film scene,” Iva shared her opinion. Through critique we can follow trends in film production but also in the attitudes of the audience itself – of which critics are a part.
Iva attended Kulturpunkt’s journalism school and the Critics’ Workshop at the Zagreb Cinema Club where she connected with other actors in culture. “I always try to be aware of the context in which writing and shooting is done, that is, to observe a specific film within a specific social moment,” Iva told us when describing the process of writing film critique. When asked about the presence of subjectivity during the writing of the critique she answered that subjectivity is inevitably present in our every day act – “Today subjectivity is openly taken into account, in terms of specific taste conditioned by development path, interests and similar.”
She tried her hand in the role of the jury at the Student Film Review and at this year’s Star Film Fest she is extremely looking forward to socializing and making new acquaintances.
