Katja Restović

DIRECTOR:
After the Fashion News international fashion festival 1990 - 1997 she began to work as a director for the Tutico record company in Zagreb, directing and screenwriting for the most famous show business stars in Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, producing independently and through external producers. After the Imaginary Academy for Documentary Film 1998 (in master class with Rajko Grlic and Nenad Puhovski), she produced over 600 videos for the record companies Croatia recordsť, Menart, Aquarius, Orfej, Hit records and external productions. In 1998, she made the music video for the Eurosong contestant Doris Dragovic and her song Marija Magdalena, and a series of awarded short and documentary films, many of which have participated in a number of international festivals in Europe and the US. Since 2005, she has been working actively on the European and US markets. She is also director of art festival Street Art Festival – street-art-festival.com selector of Jazz festoval Jazz in Lapidarij www.jazzinlap.com selector for classical music Festival www.concertsinbazilika.com selector and director of teatar festival Zlatni zub www.zlatni-zub.com producer of famous music aria project www.aria-hr.com and Vedran Mlakar music project www.vedran-mlakar.com

PHOTOGRAPHER:
After completing the academy in the sculpture class under the academic sculptor Mr. Josip Dimic, a series of independent and group art exhibition and her graduation paper entitled Fashion Photography, she actively engaged in urban photography with conceptual layouts. She researched, froze and designed the "moment" in the form of classic black and white photography of monumental formats, combined with neon lighting fixtures and stainless steel. In 2003, she became the conceptual founder, author and selector of the international photography biennale under the name of Photodistorzija www.photodistorzija.com