Marija Katalinić
Marija Katalinić currently works as a project coordinator at the European Cultural Foundation and is in the final stage of her doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is conducting research on women, memory, and family in Croatian documentary cinema. Katalinic holds two master’s degrees: an MA in Journalism (University of Zagreb) and an MA in Visual Culture (Westminster University, London). Her interests address cultural and critical approaches to memory, cinema, and gender, which she ties with contemporary visual culture practices. Her professional background includes managing cultural projects, working in film productions, curating and advising cultural and cinema programs.
Boris Ružić
Boris Ružić is an assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He holds a PhD in interdisciplinary humanities, grounded in film studies and visual culture, with a focus on the political potential of the (moving) image in contemporary documentary film and vernacular images of social unrest. His interests lie at the intersection of politics of emancipation, (amateur) moving images, unstable archives and narrators, as well as digital technologies. He co-authored a book on contemporary film and media analysis. Programme selector for History Film Festival. Currently a researcher on three international projects in the domains of humanities, film and visual culture, and memory studies.