Erato summer camp in Grožnjan15.05.-24.05.2025.

Sanja is a tenured professor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
She has over 25 years of professional experience in teaching various academic disciplines: University level instruction in drama, rhetoric, film, and academic writing;
Sanja has:

• written a book on film adaptations
• taught advanced writing skills for academic purposes, including curriculum development and design
• developed The City in Film and The Film and Theatre courses for the students of British Columbia Institute of Technology
• translated prose and poetry
• wrote several screenplays
• presented and published papers in film studies

He has been directing feature and TV films, TV dramas, documentaries, theatre plays and writing scripts and essays for over thirty years. A number of his TV films were awarded on eminent international festivals (Best foreign film World Fest Houston, Mar del Plata, London, Los Angeles, New York, FIPRESCI - Berlin, Bergamo; multiple representative of HRT-a on PRIX ITALIA, etc.) He has been teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb since 1980 with a five-year break from 1985 to 1990; at that time he was professor at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

Darko Lukić, a theatre scholar and dramaturge, has been living in Germany since 2018, where he works as an independent expert in the field of artistic education and cultural production. He is an independent expert in the Cultural Routes programme of the Council of Europe and in the COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme, and was also an expert in the multidisciplinary expert group for capacity building of the ECOC European Capitals of Culture at the AEIDL - the European Commission Agency for Local Development. From 2019 to 2024, he was the regional coordinator of the European drama project EURODRAM. He teaches as a visiting professor at universities in Croatia, Slovakia, Germany and Spain, and until 2019 he was a regular lecturer at the doctoral study programme in literature, performing arts, film and culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He also taught at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz (Austria), the Institute of Arts Barcelona, ​​​​then at the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, the Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Bratislava and the Seminar für Slavistik der Philosophischen Fakultät, Halle. He visited numerous universities abroad (Austria, Great Britain, USA, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Taiwan) and worked as an educator, workshop leader and trainer in Brazil, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Taiwan, USA, Great Britain and Venezuela. In addition to professional works, he also publishes prose, drama texts and translations from English and Spanish.

Kirsty M Barclay has taught Communications at British Columbia Institute of Technology for over 10 years serving multiple departments, including Film and Television. Prior, she worked as Technical and Communications Writing Advisor at the Institute for Information, Computing, and Cognitive Systems at the University of British Columbia. She has studied writing for film and television the Vancouver Film School, and co-produced an independent, feature-length film (Drakula Lord of the Damned won an international independent film award in 2008).

She has over 25 years of professional experience in teaching writing for business and academic contexts, and has a Master of Arts in Language and Professional Writing from the University of Waterloo, as well as CELTA. Kirsty also completed the Professional Development Program at Simon Fraser University (equivalent to a BEd). She has taught in China and Japan, including at highschool, college, and university levels for students acquiring language skills and those immersed in the BCIT secondary school curriculum.

Dr. Ana Letunić is a performing arts curator, cultural policy expert, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Production at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, University of Zagreb. She graduated from the Master in International Performance Research at the University of Warwick, UK as well as specialized in Curating in Performing Arts at the Universities of Salzburg and LMU Munich. She has worked as a cultural programmer, dramaturgical advice, curator and researcher with contemporary performing arts organisations in Croatia, Germany, Netherlands, Serbia, Switzerland, UK, and USA as well as European networks such as IETM- Informal European Theatre Meeting, Advancing Performing Arts Project (APAP), Nomad Dance Academy and Life Long Burning. As a researcher at the intersection of cultural policy and performance studies, she has participated in numerous international conferences, professional trainings, and research projects; co-curated discursive programmes for festivals such as Tanz im August and Zürcher Theater Spektakel; and taught at several universities. Letunić's scholarly contributions include several edited volumes and numerous articles focusing on cultural policy, curatorial strategies, and the sociopolitical dimensions of performing arts. She co-edited and authored books such as “How to Build Networks and Why? From Resilience Towards Sustainability” and “Performing Arts Between Politics and Policies: Implications and Challenges”, as well as practical guides like “Production of Artistic Events: A Beginner's Handbook for Future Producers.” Her research articles have appeared in publications such as the Cultural Policy Yearbook and TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation, addressing topics like international cultural networks, digitalization in cultural practices, and curatorial agency as a response to evolving cultural policies.

Lidija Ivanda, MA producer, is general manager of the Production Company for film and theatre Ars septima d.o.o. She produced documentary film Children’s Kingdom, part of which was included in the official curriculum in Croatian secondary schools. Film Lea and Daria has been multiple awarded and included in a dozen university education libraries and museums.

For many years she collaborated with the Croatian National Television on several feature and TV films.

She is a member of Film Artist Association, Association of Drama Artists and Producers Association In Croatia.

The productions of theatre plays were awarded for best leading actor / actress on all major festivals in Croatia and by the Croatian Association of Drama Artists, for achievement in theatre etc.