Review by Ellen Slatkin from the Denver International Film Festival Exerpt from "L'alberto Del Desidero" by Eva Fornszaric Reference Books Photograph Rajko Grlic
Rajko Grlic was born 1947 in Zagreb, Croatia. He graduated a feature film directing from the FAMU Film Academy in Prague, Czech Republic.
He has directed and co-written ten theatrical feature films:
2001 - Croatia 2000 (Who Wants To Be A President)
1989 - That Summer of White Roses
1981 - The Melodie Haunts My Reverie (You Love Only Once)
His films have been distributed all around the world and shown in competition at many major film festivals. They have received more then fifty international awards including the Tokyo International Film Festival "Grand Prix" and "Best Director".
Rajko has also written nine produced feature screenplays and two television serials. He has received numerous awards for writing including a UNESCO award, FIPRESCI award and "Peter Kastner" award.
Four of his feature films are available on video and laser disc in USA .
As a producer Rajko has produced four theatrical feature films:
2004 - Happy Kid (dir. Igor Mirkovic)
2001 - Who Wants to be a President (documentary co-director)
1991 - Virdzina (dir.. Srdjan Karanovic)
and five short films. He has also directed three television documentary serials and a dozen short films.
Rajko also write, direct and produce the CD-ROM "How to make your Movie -An Interactive Film School" awarded with eight international awards including "Grand Award" as the best multimedia at New York Festival 1998.
Rajko is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Film at Ohio University, Athens, OH and Artistic Director of Motovun Film Festival, Croatia.
