Lea Vidakovic

1983. born in Subotica, Serbia,
2003-2007. studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, graphic departmen, prof. Robert Šimrak, Zagreb, Croatia
2006. student exchange at Faculty of Fine Arts, department of performance, prof. T. Ruller, Brno, Czech Republic
2007-2010. studied and graduated at the animation department, Volda University College, Norway
2008. International Summer Academy, performance - installation department of Gulsun Karamustafa, Austria
2009. one semester specializing in puppet animation, Glamorgan University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2010.director of Volda Animation Festival 2010 (with I. Bosnjak)
2011. graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2011-2012. MA of audio visual arts at the Royal Academy of Arts (KASK), Gent, Belgium
2012-2013 Making first authored debut animation film, Zagreb, Croatia
2014- PhD researcher in animation studies, Nanyang Technological University/ Art, Design, Media, Singapore

A member of HDLU (Croatian association of artists) and SULUV (association of artists from Vojvodina)
         
awards and nominations:
2015.
-best animation film The Vast Landscape porcelain stories, III Festival Brasil de Cinema International, Brasil
-best animation film The Vast Landscape porcelain stories, WatchOut! Film Festival, Tetovo, Macedonia
-honorary mention for The Vast Landscape porcelain stories, Animfest, Athens, Greece
-best experimental animation film Sisters, Encontrarte Amares, Portugal
2014. -best narration Sisters, Multivision - Video Installations Competition at the Erarta Museum of the Contemporary Art, Russia
-best animation Sisters, Early bird student film festival, Bulgaria
-best cinematography Sisters, Early bird student film festival, Bulgaria
-best animation short Sisters, III Dona i Cinema- Mujer y Cine- Woman & Film, Valencia, Spain
-best artsy short film Sisters, Cine Campus, international student's film festival, Puerto Rico
-audience choice award Sisters, Cinema Monsters Film Festival, Huntingdon, Pensilvania, USA
-special mention  The Vast Landscape porcelain stories, Filmski Front, Novi Sad, Serbia
2013. -award for best animation film Sisters, Watch Out Film Festival – Tetovo, Macedonia
-honorary award Sisters, International film festival ZOOM ZBLIZENIA, Jelenia Gora, Poland
-best sound decision Sisters, Unprecedented cinema, Nevidanoe kino, Tallin, Estonia
-finalist, nominated for award Sisters, 13 Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental VALLECAS PUERTA DEL CINE, Madrid, Spain, 2012.
-'Dr Ferenc Bodrogvari' award for art works done in 2011, Subotica, Serbia
-2nd prize -Crossed sild- Athens international animation festival, Greece
2011. Splendid Isolation - winner of best art installation at Art festival ŠUND, Art Center, Belgrade, Serbia
-best stop motion animation movie, -Crossed sild- student animation fetsival, Toronto, Canada
-bronze Pegasus  -Crossed sild- animation festival  ANIMATOR, Poznan, Poland
-special prize -Crossed sild- 14. International Film Festival 'Zoom Zblizenia', Poland
-nomination for the best camera and best sound  -Crossed sild- 'Dani Hrvatskog filma', Zagreb, Croatia
2009.
-nomination for best stop motion animation 'Splendid Isolation', Glammies, Cardiff, UK, 2008.
-Rector's award for the exhibition 'Interior of a heart’, Zagreb, Croatia 2007. -Finalist of Top Scholarship for top students
-Dean's award for works in 2006/2007, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2005.
-Dean’s award for works done in 2004/2005, Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Filmography:
2015 – The Family Portrait, preproduction, NTU/ADM, Singapore
2014 – The Vast Landscape - porcelain stories, AKC Attack!, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 – My love, music video for Lieasa Van der Aa, Belgium
2012 – Sisters, Royal Academy of Art KASK, Belgium
2010 – Crossed sild (with I. Bosnjak), HVO Norway
2009-10 – Splendid Isolation, Glamorgan University, Wales, UK

solo exhibitions:
2014.
The Vast Landscape porcelain stories - Gallery Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
The Vast Landscape porcelain stories – Gallery SULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia
Sisters, Gallery 'Matica Hrvatska', Zagreb, Croatia
Sisters, MMC Luka, Pula, Croatia
Sisters, Modern Gallery Lazarevac, Lazarevac, Serbia
2012.
Splendid Isolation – Gallery of cultural center of Belgrade, Serbia
No7/The familiar landscape (with L. Migic), Gallery Vladimir Nazor, Zagreb, Croatia
Splendid Isolation – Gallery 'Mali likovni salon – kulturnog centra Novog sada', Novi Sad, Serbia
2011.
Crossed sild (with Ivana Bosnjak), Gallery Vjekoslav Karas, Karlovac, Croatia
Crossed sild (with Ivana Bosnjak), Gallery 52, Art Center, Belgrade, Serbia
Splendid Isolation, Gallery Elektrika, Pancevo, Serbia
Splendid Isolation, SECONDroom, Ghent, Belgium
2010.
Splendid Isolation, Gallery SC Student Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Crossed sild, (with Ivana Bosnjak) sets and puppet exhibition, Fredrikstad animation festival, Norway
2009.
Paralel Processes (with Goran Kujundzic, Srdjan Milodanovic and Vera Djenge), Modern Gallery Likovni susret, Subotica, Serbia
The Public Bath/documentation',with Boban Matz, photography exhibition, Gallery in motion Guerilla Art, Summer3p, Subotica, Serbia
2008. Roberta/Carlos, (with Susie Flock), Gallery in Alcatraz, Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria
The Public Bath, performance/multimedial instalation, in the ruins of the old public bathroom,Subotica, Serbia
2007.
Swann sister, performance, Gallery Vladimir Nazor, Zagreb, Croatia
Interier of a heart, installation, Modern gallery ‘Likovni susret’, Subotica, Serbia
2006.
The overnight shelter, performance, Faculty of arts, Brno, Czech Republic
2005.
Bathers, graphics in space, women and men beach, Palic lake, Serbia

group exhibitions:
2015.
Konflikti, provokacije, relacije, izazovi, strepnje, energije, odlucnosti – Museum of contemporary art, Novi Sad, Serbia
Musuem night – ArtPorta Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
2014.
235km/100 years – Serbian and Austrian Artists Now, Haus Der Kunst, Baden, Switzerland
Lutka u Hrvatskom animiranom filmu, Galelery LUPUH, Zagreb, Croatia
2. pogled – Modern Gallery Likovni susret, Subotica, Serbia
Fondation Danilo Kiš, Night of museums 2014, a work from the collection of Moder gallery  Likovni Susret, Subotica, Serbia
2013.
T-HT award exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Situacije (art installations in Vojvodina) – Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi sad, Serbia
Exhibition of new members of SULUV (Association of Artists from Vojvodina) Gallery SULUV, Novi Sad, Serbia
Yearly exhibition of members of Croatian artist association, Galley HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
USB-shuffle-show 2013, INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE, Berlin, Germany
Tehnologija narodu, (screening of 'Sisters'), Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi sad, Serbia  
Art festival S.U.N.D, Lisboa, Portugal
Videosfera, trienale mixed media, Krusevac, Serbia
exhibition of members of Cro-Art group and guests, Gallery of Open University, Subotica, Serbia
2012.
'Myse en abyme – CCD Dilft, Bornem Belgium
exhibition kolonije 'Stipan Sabic' – Gallery Percic – Subotica, Serbia
'4thcoming', Kapel Ster der Zee, Koksijde, Belgium
NES artist residency exhibition – Skagastrond, Iceland
2011
Crossed sild with(I.Bosnjak), exhibition of animation festival KUFER, Museum of contmporary art of Istria, Croatia
Duplex exposition, Aux chais Magelis, Quai de la Charente, Angouleme, France
Art festival Š.U.N.D (Šta Umetnost Nudi Društvu), Art Center, Belgrade, Serbia
After the magic has gone, Modern gallery Likovni susret, Subotica, Serbia
Parallel Processes', foaje HNK, Varazdin, Croatia
'Parallel Procceses' Gallery Matica Hrvatska, Zagreb, Croatia
'Parallel Processes', Gallery sv Krševana, Šibenik, Croatia
2010.
'After the Magic Has Gone' VoldaKunstlag, Volda, Norway
'Paralel Processes', Gallery Magis, Osijek, Croatia
'Autoportert u maticnom mediju', Gallery Marisal, Zagreb, Croatia
'Selfportraits of contemporary artists from Subotica', Bas Kuca, Subotica, Serbia
2009.
'43.likovni susret -graphic art and new media', Modern gallery 'Likovni susret', Subotica, Serbia
'Exhibition with a key', graphic exhibition of students work, Gallery of Academy of fine arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2008.
'Identity', performance/instalation in the group of Gulsun Karamustafa, Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria
'From ashes to the museum', burning the works of art, part of the exhibition 'Space for the new dialogue', Chines quarter, Novi Sad, Serbia
2007.
‘Supertourist’, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia
‘Gues why?’, Modern gallery ‘Likovni susret’, Subotica, Serbia
‘Gues why?’, center for visual culture ‘Zlatno oko’, Novi Sad, Serbia
’25 years of graphic atelier’, Modern gallery ‘Likovni susret’, Subotica, Serbia
2006.
‘INTER(AKTIV)’, workshop and exhibition, in the group of Zlatko Kopljar, ‘Student center’ gallery, Zagreb, Croatia    
‘Engrawing graphic workshop and exhibition’, with Daniel Clochey, Academy of Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
2005.
‘Pasionska bastina’, exhibition of Art Academy student’s works, Gallery Kristofor Stankovic, Zagreb, Croatia
‘Looking for’, Youth club, Subotica, Serbia
‘Exhibition of graphic department student’s works’, Gallery Galzenica, Velika gorica, Croatia
‘Black on Black’, velesajam kulture, performance, theatre caffee ITD, Zagreb, Croatia
2003.
’Kolonija Bunaric 2002.’, City hall, Subotica, Serbia                              

Artist residencies and workshops attended:
2014 – Saaren Kartano Artist Residence, FInland
2012 – NES Artist residency, Skagastrond, Iceland                                               
2012 – Between stillness and motion – workshop on puppet animation with Susie Templeton, Nederlands                    
2011 – Animacampus, Tallin, Estonia  
2011 – Visegrad Exchange Production Forum, AniFest, Czech Republic

Held animation workshops for children and students:
(upcoming)
2015. - stop motion animation workshop for girls – Women make waves film festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 – stop motion animation workshop with elderly people, Saari Artist Residence, Mynamaki, Finland
2013 – teaching two interns from Gobelins l'ecolde de l'image from Paris, Zagreb, Croatia
2012 – puppet animation workshop during the project week, for 1st year students at Royal Academy of Arts, KASK, Gent, Belgium
2010 - stop motion animation workshop for children 7- 12 years, Volda, Norway
2010 – Asifa workshop for children, Annecy, France

Festival screenings:

The Vast Landscape – porcelain stories:
2014.october – Filmski Front, Novi Sad, Serbia – honorry mention
2014.december – Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia, official selection
2014.december - Piccolo Festival dell'Animazione – in Pordenone (Cinemazero), Udine (CEC- Visionario), Trieste (Cinema Ariston and Studio Tommaseo), Gorizia (Kinemax), Italy
2015. Inetrnational women film festival FILMMOR, Turkey
2015.march - MONSTRA , Lisbon, Portugal
2015. march - MEDIAWAVE – ANOTHER CONNECTION International Film Festival,“On the road”-online competition program, Hungary
2015.march - Tricky Women International Animation Film festival, Croatian panorama, Vienna, Austria
2015. march - Athens Animfest, Athens, Greece
2015. april - Tabor Film Festival, Croatia
2015. april - 44. Internationales Studentenfilmfestival der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Germany
2015. april - VAFI - International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Varaždin
2015. may - South East European Festival, LA, USA
2015. may – Kraljevski Filmski Festival, Kraljevo, Serbia
2015. may - Future Film Festival, Bologna, Italy
2015. jun – Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
2015. jun - Unprecedented cinema, Tallin, Estonia
2015. jun- Detmold Film Festival, Germany
2015. july - 9th International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo, Greece
2015. july - Animated film festival – Animator, Poland
2015. august - Constantine's golden coin, Nis, Serbia
2015. august - Imaginaria Int film festival, Italy
2015. august - 21. Film Festival della Lessinia, Italy
2015. august - FARCUME - Festival International de Curtas-Metragens de Faro, Portugal
2015. august - 8th Xiamen International Animation Festival, Beijing, China
2015. august - Jahorina film festival, Bosnia and Hercegovina
2015. august - III Festival Brasil de Cinema International, Brazil – best animation film
2015. september - 5th CARTON Festival International de cortos de animation la tribu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015. september - Kraljevski Filmski festival, (out of competition), Kraljevo, Serbia
2015. september - Animanima, Cacak, Serbia
2015. september - Anifest Rozafa, Albania
2015. september - Message to men international short film festival, St Petersbourg, Russia
2015. september - Tuzla Film Festival, Tuzla, Bosnia and Hercegovina
(upcoming screenings)
2015. october - Women make waves film festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2015. october – Banja Luka International animated film festival, panorama, Bosnia
2015. october - Bucheon International Animation Festival, Bucheon, Korea
2015. october - Festival de Cine de Madrid, International panorama, Spain
2015. october - 48th SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
2015. october - 8th Central and Eastern European Film Festival “CinEast”, Luxembourg
2015. november – ALCINE, Madrid, Spain
2015. december - Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia

Sisters:
2012. december – Videomedeja festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
2012. december – Medusa film days – Subotica, Serbia
2012. december – Filofest, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013. february – ZOOM ZBLIZENIA, Jelenia Gora, Poland – special mention
2013. february – Animac, mostra internacional de cinema d'Animacio de Catalunya, Spain
2013. march  – Monstra festival, Lisboa, Portugal
2013. march  – Cine Public Festival – Gent, Belgium
2013. march  – AnimFest, Athens, Greece
2013. march  – Erarta Motion Pictures 1–Festival of short films about painting - StPetersburg, Russia
2013. april  – 22. Dani Hrvatskog filma – Zagreb, Croatia
2013. april  – Golden Anteaters Festival, Lublin, Poland
2013. may  - 16th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival – Ankara, Turkey backup.art.screen', Weimar, Germany
2013. may  – Golden Kuker Festival, Sofia, Bugarska
2013. jun  – IX Annual International Short Film Festival ASTERFEST, Strumica, Macedonia
2013. jun  – Watch Out Film Festival – Tetovo, Makedonia – 1st award best animated film
2013. jun  – Tabor film festival, Croatia
2013. jun  – Kastav film festival, Kastav, Croatia
2013. jun .- „Ennenägematu film” Unprecedented cinema, Tallin, Estonia – best sound
2013. jun – Sardiniafilmfestival, Italy
2013. july – OFF Travno, Croatia
2013. august – Animanima, Cacak, Serbia
2013. august – 20. orszagos DIÁKFILMSZEMLE, Budapest, Hungary
2013. september – Naoussea International Film festival, Naoussea, Greece
2013. september - 3. Ars Independent International Film Festival
2013. september – Film Fest Beginning, St Petersburg, Russia
2013. october – Pisek student film festival, Pisek, Czech Republic
2013. october – Animest, Bucharest, Romania
2013. november – International Student Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2013. november – No Gloss Film Festival, Leeds, UK
2013. november – 'Short Belgian' – programme that represents Belgian contemporary short film during 'Belgium week in Riga', Riga, Latvia
2013. november – CutOut Fest, programme 'Girl Talk', out of competition, Queretaro, Mexico
2013. november - CINE-REBIS The London & Porto Underground Film Festival, UK and Portugal
2013. november - Golden Orchid International Animation Festival, USA
2013. november - Festival Internacional de Animación FIDA, Chile
2013. november - Faludi Ferenc Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál, Budapest, Hungary
2013. november - IFF ETIUDA&ANIMA, Krakow, Poland
2013. novembar – Dukafest, Banja Luka, Bosna
2013. december -  Family Fiction Film Project, Portugal
2013. december– Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013. december – Skena up festival, Prishtina, Kosovo
2013. december - CineMAiubit International Student Film Festival
2013. december - Piccolo Festival of Animazione event in Pordenone (Cinemazero), Udine (CEC-Visionario), Trieste (Cinema/Teatro Miela and Studio Tommaseo), Gorizia (Kinemax).
2013. december – (showcase, 2 screenings) Stop motion Mexico - Sala Margolin, Cordoba and Museo Franz Mayer near the Central Alameda
2013. december – ProFire short film festival, Scotland
2013. kinoproba festival, Russia
2014. february - International Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2014. march – LISFF Ljubljana International Short Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2014. march – Kinoki Festival, Mexico City
2014. may – Kratki na brzinu – Sv Ivan Zilina, Croatia
2014. jun – Animafest Zagreb, Croatia
2014. jun - III Dona i Cinema- Mujer y Cine- Woman & Film, Valencia  - best animated short
2014. july – CinemadaMare, Muro Lucano, Basilicata, Italy
2014. july – FERFILM festival, Kosovo
2014. Cinema Monsters Film Festival, Huntingdon, Pensilvania, USA – audience choice award
2014. september – flEXiff – Australia
2014. september - Cine Campus – international student's film festival, Puerto Rico -  best artsy short film
2014. october - Film Festival of Fine Arts in Szolnok, Hungary
2014. october – Athens */video art festival – international festival of digital arts and new media, Athens, Greece
2014. october – Cologne OFF X Athens */video art festival, Koln, Germany
2014. november - Early Bird Students Film Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
2014. november – Xll international festival of animation arts Multivision, St Petersburg, Russia
2014. november - Istambul Animation Festival, Istambul, Turkey
2015. january - Sahar International Short Film Festival - (out of competition), Manchester, UK
2015. february - FlumenFest, Braga, Portugal
2015. march - Slough International Short Film Festival, Slough, UK
2015. march - In motion animation festival - Peacock visual arts, UK
2015. may – Fonlad digital arts festival, Portugal
2015. may – StudentCuts, Zagreb, Croatia

Crossed sild:
2012 - Animest – Bukurest – Romania
2012 – Golden kuker – Sofia, Bugarska
2012 - Dani Hrvatskog Animiranog Filma, Zagreb
2012. march - Athens AnimFest-Athens, Greece...   2nd prize student competition
2012. march - Tricky women, Wiena, Austria
2011. december - zubrowka sjort film festival, Bialistok, Poland
2011. december - Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011. november - Femix Fest, Belgrade, Serbia
2011. november - Expotoons Buenos Aires – Argentina
2011. november -  İstanbul Animation Festival, Turska
2011. november - Animated Dreams, Talin, Estonija
2011. november - Toronto internation student animation festival,Canada
2011. october - Medusa film napok – Subotica, Serbia
2011. october - 3rd Chitrakatha animation film festival 2011, India
2011. october - Montreal stop motion animation festival, Canada
2011. october - European Animated Film Festival BALKANIMA, Beograd, Srbija
2011. october - studentski festival KUfer, Pula, Hrvatska
2011. september - Canterbury anifest, Kent, UK
2011.september - Reanimania, Yervan international animation film festival
2011. september - ANIMANIMA, Cacak, Serbia
2011. september - Se-ma-for, Lodz, Poland
2011. july - 4th Animation festival ANIMATOR ,Poznan, Poland
2011. july - Sombor film festival, Sombor, Serbia
2011. july - Opuzen film festival, Croatia
2011. jun - Kastav film festival, Kastav, Croatia
2011. jun -I nternational short film festival Detmold, Germany
2011. may - KAN Festival kina amaterskiego I nezalezneg, Wroclav, Poland
2011. april - ANIMABASAURI6-ANIMABASQUE, Bilbao, Spain
2011. february - Dani Hrvatskog Filma, Zagreb, Croatia – nomination for best camera and music
2011. february - Stoke your fires – Stoke on Trent
2011. february - 14th International fil festival Zoom Zblizenia, Poland
2011. january - Premier Plans – Angers – France
2010. december - Anilogue, Viena, Austria
2010. december - Anilogue, Budapest, Hungary
2010. december - Filmski Front, Novi Sad, Serbia
2010. november - Animae Caribe – Trinidad and Tobago
2010. november - Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Norway
2010. september - Volda Animation Fetsival 2010, Norway

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