Selma Mehadžić

Born in Pula in 1984, she earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. After her studies, she spent several years working on the organization of domestic film festivals and projects at the production company Propeler Film. In 2007, she joined the Zagreb Film Festival Artistic Organization as a program coordinator, where she currently works as the program director and head of film distribution. For a full decade, from 2009 to 2019, she served as the head of the film program at Zagreb’s Europa Cinema. She frequently collaborates with other organizations as a coordinator and advisor for film and industry programs, including Art Kino Arsen in Šibenik, the Čakovec Cultural Center, the Pula Film Festival, and others. In 2016, she founded KinoKino, Croatia’s only professional children’s film festival, which has existed as a year-round film program since 2023. She is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA) and has served on selection panels for the European Comedy of the Year (2019-2021) and the LUX Prize of the European Parliament (2018-2020).