Anđelo Jurkas
Croatian indie producer, writer/director
Founder of the independent production company DOP Produkcija, through which he produces feature films, documentaries, experimental and animated films, music videos, and commercial video formats. He is the author of 5 completed feature films between 2015–2025 (Because of You, Fuck Off I Love You, Happy End, To the End of Death, 4:2), all of which have participated in national, regional, and international film festivals (Pula, Sarajevo, FEST, Vukovar, Split, Mostar, Skopje, ...). He has also created several feature-length documentaries (Tomorrow I’ll Be (A Story About the Domci), MPT: The Price of Patriotism, Surviving Peace, The Lives of Jan Bolić, They Told Me to Kneel, On Walls and People, Stisni: Stop – Ri Lit Film)—all awaiting premiere and completion dates—as well as numerous music videos for both national and international performers (Lačni Franz, Zoran Predin, Zabranjeno Pušenje, The Dwarves, Hladno Pivo, Miki Solus, Markiz, Ramirez, and many others). He is also the author of several pilot episodes of sitcoms (Marriage Rocks, How to Survive Croatia) and other drama-documentary-entertainment TV formats.
Currently in various stages of production:
Feature-length animated live-action film for adults Ana – shot as a live-action film but transformed into animation using rotoscoping and screen capture techniques, now in post-production.
In production: Online, a live-action film that, from a so-called “screenlife” perspective, follows a mosaic of human destinies during a peculiar Christmas Eve. One of the leading roles, played by Asim Ugljen as a gamer, features the Croatian video game Serious Sam 3.
In pre-production and development talks: Red Boy, a video game about a boy who, as a response to bullying, invents a brave alter ego with whom he overcomes the challenges of his complicated primary school life.
In January 2026: BETA, a psychological thriller about a programmer whose AI program takes control of her life. According to verified information, this will be the first feature-length film worldwide in which AI is integrated across all stages of production, pre-production, and post-production—both technically and creatively.
In development: Kora and the Enchanted Spring, a feature-length animated film based on the newly published children’s novel by award-winning Rijeka author Franka Blažić, in which, beyond Blender, advanced AI animation modules and programs will also be used.
He lives and works between Zagreb, Rijeka, and Podravina, while awaiting project acquisitions from HTV, Nova TV, and RTL.