Cine Club Split is a non-profit organization active since 1952, with the aim of developing audiovisual culture and arts and providing space, technical and production resources for educational purposes and production, screenings and presentation of cultural and artistic content.
Activities of the Cine Club cover three main areas: Education, Production and Archive.
Educational activities are conducted within the frame of the film school programme, film theory lectures, workshops, film screenings programme, seminars, masterclass and lab. Programming activities are designed to follow the current developments and interdisciplinary educational methods in the media, audiovisual and film arts, founded on professional experience and creativity of lecturers and programme coordinators.
Quality level of all activities is advanced by continuous monitoring of results, quality assessment of completed projects and applying best practice and methods, with constant introduction of new concepts. The Club represents an open and flexible system, able to quickly respond to the requirements and needs of the members and the community and to put into effect previously unforeseen or unplanned programmes and ideas, leading to advancements in overall work and development of knowledge, skills, critical thinking and creativity of all participants.
Free use of equipment and space is guaranteed, as well as autonomy and freedom of expression for all members. During the past six decades of active work, over 600 short films were produced by Cine Club Split, out of which 290 films were shot on film stock. Over one hundred of our authors made their own films, some successful and some less so. Numerous awards won at amateur and alternative film competitions and festivals, on national and international level, contribute to the position of Cine Club Split as one of the most productive and successful clubs in Croatia. Up until today, five generations of authors have emerged from the Club.
We are currently witnessing full transformation – from the system that existed in the past, with groups of authors with distinctive expression, we are now becoming a multifunctional system with a considerable number of members who do not necessarily work together or follow the same convictions, and may have very different aesthetics. The cohesive element is still a sense of solidarity and the shared perspective: cost-free equipment, access to education and artistic freedom. Cooperation, coproduction and partnership projects have grown in number and are now common practice between the members, who have the freedom to work in film as amateurs, professionals or hobbyists, and to design and propose their own programmes. Recent generations of auteurs continue to express themselves independently and clearly through the cinematic language, and their work is successfully presented at national and international festivals and selected film streaming platforms. In the future, the Club will strive to become a regional audiovisual centre.
Sunčica Fradelić
- – President
- – Program manager
Completed formal education in 2006, earning a MFA degree in Arts, Painting at the Academy of Arts in Split (UMAS). She has been at the helm of the Cine Club Split since 2008. and president 2011 – 2023. Between 2006 and 2011 she worked as an external associate/ assistant at UMAS, Department of Film and Video, on several courses (Short Film and Video, New Media, Performance etc.). In the period 2011 – 2016 Sunčica worked as a principal co-operator of Bela Tarr on development and implementation of the film.factory programme in Sarajevo, as programme coordinator for DLA and MA degrees and office manager of the film.factory project office. While attending the film.factory doctoral degree studies, she established cooperation with renowned film directors, actors, producers, critics and film professionals. Her work experience covers numerous amateur and professional productions, coproductions and projects, workshops and educational programmes, with job positions ranging from production supervisor, producer and executive producer to publishing, editorial, mentoring, curating and jury tasks. She has been an independent auteur since 2004 and her works have been shown at exhibitions and festivals both at national and international level. She was vice-president of the Youth Centre Platform in Split 2017 – 2021. She was elected vice-president of the Croatian Film Association in 2021. – 2023.
Andrea Remetin
- – Secretary
Holds a bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish (language and literature) from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She completed her postgraduate degree in European Studies in 2009, organized jointly by the University of Panthéon Assas, Paris and the University of Zagreb. Furthermore, Andrea broadened her education in the field of art and culture at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. In her professional career she worked in operational marketing and handling public relations in multinational corporations. Moreover, she was head of PR in film distribution for numerous independent films, as well as for Disney blockbusters. In most recent years, she has been producer in performing arts (theater and contemporary dance). Presently, Andrea is actively involved in the production of interdisciplinary cultural projects.
Franko Sardelić Kolinac
- – Production supervisor and technical support
- – Member of the Executive Committee
Graduated from the School of Design, Graphics and Sustainable Construction in Split, majoring in web design. He works as a lighting technician on numerous programs, public events and projects, and as an assistant in maintenance, storage and logistical distribution of equipment (Croatel d.o.o., Zagreb, Rabbit Rock Z.O., Split).
Rino Efendić
- – Head of Analogue Photo Lab
Author of a number of photo exhibitions, street art shows, sound installations … His works have been shown at over ten solo exhibitions and numerous group ones. He also organises and teaches several public film and educational programmes (Visual arts for citizens based on lectures of Radovan Ivančević, Short Courses in Photography, One Year of Film – Public Library Juraj Šižgorić Šibenik). For many years he taught photography at the School of Visual Arts. Cofounder of the contemporary art association KVART.
Documents
Split Film School – 60 years of Cine Club Split
Hard cover, 165 pages, bilingual (cro/eng), comes with DVD. Can be ordered.