Marina Andree Škop

Marina Andree Škop (1973) is director and creative producer focused on the creation of challenging content for the young audiences.

With more than 25 years of experience in filmmaking, Marina’s portfolio includes variety of audio-visual formats. Her directing debut, feature documentary "Sevdah"
won the Audience Award at Sarajevo Film Festival in 2009, along with three other international awards. She co-directed and produced SF feature for kids “My Grandpa Is an Alien“ (2019) which won sixteen international awards and was distributed at 27 countries. Marina just finished a short animated film “Blue Teddy Bear” which was created in Croatian-Slovak co-production.

Currently, she is preparing feature film for children “Glavonja/Spacehead“ , which was supported by Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Slovak  udiovisual Fund, Croatian Television and Creative Europe MEDIA (development), and a feature film for children “GameGirl“ , supported for development by Creative Europe  MEDIA, Czech Film Fund and Croatian Audiovisual Centre.

filmography

2023 Modrý medvídek / Blue Teddy Bear (as director and
producer) - short animated film 10’, production PomPom Film, Artileria
2020 Let’s play a Story: The Miser (as director and producer) -  short animation-live action film for children
Awards: Director's Special Award in Animation Films Golden Bee International Children's Film Festival 2020, New Delhi, India
Festivals: Golden Bee International Children's Film Festival 2020, New Delhi, Indija, Children's Film Festival Seattle 2021, Seattle, SAD, 16th Athens Animfest 2021, Athens, Greece, Festival Filmskih Autorki 2021, Novi Sad, Serbia, Betina Film Festival 2021, Betina, Croatia
2019 Můj děda spadl z Marsu / My Grandpa is an Alien (as director and producer) - feature film for children, Directors: Marina Andree Škop and Drazen Zarkovic
Awards: ECFA award, Olympia FIlm Festival, Award for Best Narrative Feature, FicLaPaz International Film Festival, Bolivia 2019, Best Actress Award (Lana Hranjec), SciFi Film Festival Sydney, Australia 2019, Golden Arena for the Best Cinematography (Sven Pepeonik), Golden Arena for the Best Visual Effects, Pula Film Festival 2019, Best Family Film Award 33 season Calcutta International Cult Film Festival (India) 2019 and 8 more awards at other international festivals.
Festivals: Warsaw International Film Festival 2019 / Cinekid 2019 / Cottbus Film Festival 2019 / Tallin Black Nights Film Festival 2019, / Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2019 and more than 60 other international festivals
2017 Hi Koyaa! (as director and producer) - documentary short 10’, director Marina Andree Škop
2015 Pojďme si zahrát příběh: mravenec a kobylka / Let's Play a Story: The Ant and the Grasshopper (as director and producer) - short animated film 7'
Awards: Best animated film - Jahorina Film Festival, B-H 2015, Best short animated film Zero Plus International Film Festival 2015 (Russia)
2009 Sevdah (as director and producer) - documentary film
Awards: Audience award Sarajevo FF 2009 / Audience award BH FF, New York 2010 / Best Music Award, Kimera 2010, Italia / Audience award, Paklenica FF, 2010.