Nikica Gilić

Nikica Gilić was born in Split in 1973. He is a full professor at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and an external associate of the Academy of Dramatic Art at the same university. He has written several books – „Predavanja o filmskom modernizmu“, „Uvod u povijest hrvatskog igranog filma“, „Filmske vrste i rodovi“, „Uvod u teoriju filmske priče“ – and is a co-author and one of the editors of a number of books and collections („Lukas Nola“, „Global Animation Theory“, „Partisans in Yugoslavia“, „60 godina festivala igranoga filma u Puli i hrvatski film“). He is an editor of several journals, such as Apparatus and Književna smotra, and was also the longest-serving editor-in-chief of Hrvatski filmski ljetopis. He is a member of the Animafest Zagreb council, has taught guest courses at universities in Berlin and Vienna, and has given numerous lectures in Croatia and abroad. At the end of the 20th century, he was one of the founders of the cultural and social affairs newspaper Zarez. He is the recipient of the City of Zagreb Award, the SFERA Award, the „Vladimir Vuković“ Award, and other distinctions.