Wednesday Pictures at Cable Factory

Wednesday Pictures are screening events organised by MUU in collaboration with different partners at Cable Factory’s Konttori. Finnish Animation Guild’s Masterclasses offer an unique opportunity for the audience to hear more about animation art. In the series of Masterclasses a diverse selection of Finnish and international animation artists talks about their films and working process and their work is being screened.

The speaker of the first Masterclass is Lucija Mrzljak (1990, Zagreb). Mrzljak is a Croatian animation film director, illustrator and sound artist based in Tallinn. In 2016 she completed her MA in animation in Estonia as a student of Priit and Olga Pärn.

Since 2016 she co-directed several award-winning short films with Morten Tšinakov in co-production with Eesti Joonisfilm studio in Tallinn and Adriatic Animation studio in Zagreb: Demonstration of Brilliance in Four Acts, The Stork (2020) and Eeva (2022), which will be seen during the Masterclass. Eeva has won numerous prizes around the world and was short-listed for the Oscar Academy Awards.

Besides animation Lucija also works as an illustrator. She illustrated various posters for film festivals and published a number of illustrated books for children in collaboration with Estonian and Croatian authors. Currently she is teaching at the Animation department at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts and studies Audiovisual Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.