Manuel Sumberac- Winning Film 2011
Manuel Šumberac was born on 05th of August 1988 in Pula in Croatia. In 2007 he graduate The School of Applied Arts and Design in Pula, Department of Graphic Design. Now he attends the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Animation and New Media in Zagreb. During the study till now he received several recognitions and awards.
From 2008 till 2009 he worked as leader animator on the animated film GULIVER by Zdenko Basic, who won the Grand Prix on the festival “19. Dani hrvatskog filma” and the award for best short film at “Libertas” film festival in Dubrovnik. Since then he created 3 short animated films ESCARGOT (2010), VESLA / THE OARS in collaboration with Zdenka Basic, 2011, and U SJENI / IN THE SHADOW (2011). Togheter with Zdenko Basic he directed and animated 3 music videos for the Croatian musician Gibonni; “ŽEĐAM, “TOLERNCA”, “VESLA”.
For the film Escargot he received the 2nd prize at the “42. SReviji hrvatskog filmskog i video stvaralaštva” and 1st prize on the “Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival” in Greece. For the animated music video “ŽEĐAM” he won the Porin music award for best music video in 2010.
Besides animation he works as illustrator. In collaboration to Zdenko Basic he illustrated “PINNOCHIO” for Carlton Publisher, “STEAMPUNK POE” for Running Press, as well as numerous book covers published in different countries and on several languages.
