Sunčana Brkulj

Sunčana Brkulj is an animation director born in Zadar, Croatia. She earned her BA and MA in animation at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, graduating summa cum laude in 2022; her student films, including I'm Not Feeling Very Well and the graduation film Stinky in the Dark Forest, screened at Annecy, Ottawa, Animafest Zagreb and ITFS Stuttgart and won several awards. After graduating she undertook a residency at Open Workshop in Viborg, where she made her first professional film, Butterfly. She has worked for the Adriatic Animation and Recircle studios in Zagreb, published comics in the webzine KOMIKAZE and held the solo exhibition cycle Inferno between 2018 and 2020.