Members of the jury for short documentary film at 15th MFF are Marijo Vukadin, producer and director of Olimp production from Zagreb, Jurinko Raič director of NAFF International Animated Film Festival in Neum and president of the animator’s association KAN, and Tyler Gunderson, film producer, designer, lecturer and post production lead at YouTube Space in Los A ngeles, USA. This jury pronounces the best author in the category of short documentary film.

Marijo Vukadin was born in 1976 in Bugojno (BiH). He has been engaged in film production since 2002 and he is the director of Olimp Production from Zagreb. He produced two feature films: ‘The Living and the Dead’ by Kristijan Milić and ‘The Abandoned’ by Adis Bakrač. Film The Living and the Dead won 8 Golden Arenas at the Pula Film Festival 2007. He is the co-author and producer of the film ‘Lost Button’, the most recent work of the Olimp Production. The film is about Goran Ipa Ivandić, the drummer of the band Bijelo Dugme. Vukadin lives and works in Zagreb and together with the Olimp Production works on new projects.

Jurinko Raič was born in 1954 in Čapljina. He graduated at the college of civil engineering in Zagreb, and started to work on cartoons as an animator in 1985, in Croatia film (Zagreb). He worked on the feature length projects of Croatia film: Fantasy forest, The Magician’s Hat, Lapitch, the Little Shoemaker, where he did the layout and animation. His famous films are: Emina, That’s us!, Monument, Paparazzo, Our Small Bay, Lilac and Linđo. He lives and works in Mostar. He is the director of NAFF - already traditional International Animated Film Festival in Neum. He is also the president of the Animators’ Association KAN seated in Pavarotti Centre and has been a member of the Croatian Association of Independent Artists for 15 years.

Tyler Gunderson grew up in Wisconsin. He started his college education at the University of Wisconsin where he became Bachelor of Science in communication arts (film, TV, radio) and German. After that, Tyler was accepted to University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. It was as a student assistant that Tyler made an invaluable connection that lead to a job at the YouTube Space Los Angeles, where he leads Post Production and oversees and supports 20 Mac editing stations. He also teaches editing classes and assists with the various audio and video engineering tasks. He has also been engaged in sound design, directing, picture editing, story editing and development, script analysis, and has supervised the sound design and mixes for over 35 short films, mixed six USC thesis films and over two-dozen shorts.