By awarding the prize the Festival recognizes the most successful and attractive stunts in the male and female categories.
The winners will be awarded with a trophy and a cash prize, and the international expert jury consists of experienced stunt coordinators, one of the most award-winning European stuntmen and the director of the most important action film about the Homeland War.
We invite all stuntmen and stuntwomen to enter the competition for the award by submitting their chosen stunt. The cascade must be part of an audiovisual work that is shown in 2020 to 2023. The deadline for registering the cascade is May 22, 2024.
How to enter the competition?
SUBMIT YOUR STUNT
join us at the Festival
take part in the award ceremony
Meet the jury!
GORAN STJEPANOVIĆ
KRISTIJAN MILIĆ
Multiple award-winning film and TV director, author of the most significant action film about the Homeland War, graduated in 2001 from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He won his first awards as a debutant (“Sigurna kuća”, at the Days of Croatian Film and as part of the omnibus “24 sata” at the Pula Film Festival in 2002). He completed his first feature film “Živi i mrtvi” in 2007 based on the script and book by Josip Mlakić. In the same year, the film won 8 “Golden Arenas” at the festival in Pula, and after that the film won 8 more awards outside of Croatia. The film was distributed on DVD and/or Blue-Ray in 7 countries (Japan, Czech Republic, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium). From 2007-2019 he collaborated on 6 television soap operas (“Ne daj se, Nina!”, “Najbolje godine”, “Larin izbor”, “Kud puklo da puklo”, “Zlatni dvori” and “Pogrešan čovjek”) and the drama series “Emergency 94”. In 2012, he directed six episodes of the series “Počivali u miru”. For the fourth episode of that series, he received the Croatian Actor’s Award for the best directorial achievement in a TV drama.
In 2014, he completed his second feature film “Broj 55”, which again won 8 “Golden Arenas” at the festival in Pula (best film, direction, screenplay, editing, scenography, costume design, mask, and
special effects) and three more awards at the Vukovar Film Festival. In 2017, he shot his third feature film “Mrtve ribe”, again based on the script and book by Josip Mlakić.
CARL STUCK
Carl comes from Germany and is one of the most award-winning European stuntmen. He won 3 Taurus awards (world stunt award), in 2009, 2012 and 2017. Since 1999, he has also been a stunt coordinator, and coordinated about 200 episodes of the popular and acclaimed series “Cobra 11”. As a stunt coordinator, stuntman and precision driver, he participated in numerous international productions such as „Rush“, „Dunkirk“, „Collide“, „Shanghai Job“, „Canary Black“
ROK CVETKOV
Rok is a world-renowned stunt coordinator with 45 years of experience in stunts and the film industry. He has worked as an actor, producer and action director. Although he currently works mostly as a stunt coordinator, he still works as a stuntman. He has been sharing his knowledge and skills with generations of stuntmen and stuntwomen, and has participated in countless world productions, of which Schindler’s List, Patriot, No Man’s Land, Diana and the Expendables franchise make some of the best known titles to wider audience.
