Katja Restovic
- Director
- Writer
Katja Restovic, Croatian theatre, movie and music video director
Restovic graduated in 1988 as a sculptor in the class of academic sculptor Josip Diminic and Fashion Photography in the class of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. She graduated from the Imaginary Film Academy, documentary film (Rajko Grlic, Karpo Godina and Nenad Puhovski) about a Japanese sculptor Masayuki Nagase who came from Kyoto to Istria in 1979 and opened his studio in the village of Marusici.
Katja was awarded for painting at the Artistic Creation of Young People festival in Pazin and Grisia in 1986, Rovinj and exhibited independently several times. She is the author of the copyright mask of the Carnival of Rijeka Moretto and the official uniform for the European Tourism Campaign, Ministry of Tourism, Croatia. She is a member of the Croatian Music Union, Croatian Association of Writers and Association of Croatian Film Directors HDFD. She worked on Radio Rijeka and radio Svid, as the presenter and journalist editor of her own shows FM and Kult. She is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award Golden closet at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb (author of Festival Fashion News for the accomplishments in fashion and for the founding of the fashion festival of young fashion designers of Europe Fashion News 1990 until1997, with the F.N addition Cosmetic News and Hair Style News.
Katja has published three novels (Pan American Highway, Placida Curatto, Henry Tool's Fim) under the pseudonym Eva Lucas and since 2010 she has been actively involved in theater. She has written six comedies and drama adaptations, and this is We Are All The Same, Under The Skin, Quickly, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, Theatre Night, Your Face Sounds Dangerous. She is the author of photo biennale Photodistrozija and comedy festival Golden Tooth. As a director, screenwriter and editor, she worked on a large number of music videos and TV commercials for the Croatian and foreign markets. She also did an official music video for the Eurosong contest for Doris Dragovic 1999 in Jerusalem, Israel and Jacques Houdek 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. She participated in the Libertas Film Festival with a short documentary film Maria Bakker. She directed a short film The Mouth Of The Evil and short mucis documentaries The Followers Of Christ USA, Gospel Earl Bynuma feat. As We Are Cora Amstrong USA, 4 LOVE, USA.
Katja's visual art works are presented in the Groznjan Art establishment, and also at the exhibition Weisse Austellung, in the Gallery of Prima Center Berlin, alongside the White Exhibition of Eugen Borkovsky and Syntax of Rhythm Chang Mai, Thailand, Same Rain, Same Wind.
Over the last years she has been working on her feature film The Door of Redemption, which she co-authored.
Restovic graduated in 1988 as a sculptor in the class of academic sculptor Josip Diminic and Fashion Photography in the class of Visual Communication at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. She graduated from the Imaginary Film Academy, documentary film (Rajko Grlic, Karpo Godina and Nenad Puhovski) about a Japanese sculptor Masayuki Nagase who came from Kyoto to Istria in 1979 and opened his studio in the village of Marusici.
Katja was awarded for painting at the Artistic Creation of Young People festival in Pazin and Grisia in 1986, Rovinj and exhibited independently several times. She is the author of the copyright mask of the Carnival of Rijeka Moretto and the official uniform for the European Tourism Campaign, Ministry of Tourism, Croatia. She is a member of the Croatian Music Union, Croatian Association of Writers and Association of Croatian Film Directors HDFD. She worked on Radio Rijeka and radio Svid, as the presenter and journalist editor of her own shows FM and Kult. She is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award Golden closet at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb (author of Festival Fashion News for the accomplishments in fashion and for the founding of the fashion festival of young fashion designers of Europe Fashion News 1990 until1997, with the F.N addition Cosmetic News and Hair Style News.
Katja has published three novels (Pan American Highway, Placida Curatto, Henry Tool's Fim) under the pseudonym Eva Lucas and since 2010 she has been actively involved in theater. She has written six comedies and drama adaptations, and this is We Are All The Same, Under The Skin, Quickly, The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, Theatre Night, Your Face Sounds Dangerous. She is the author of photo biennale Photodistrozija and comedy festival Golden Tooth. As a director, screenwriter and editor, she worked on a large number of music videos and TV commercials for the Croatian and foreign markets. She also did an official music video for the Eurosong contest for Doris Dragovic 1999 in Jerusalem, Israel and Jacques Houdek 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. She participated in the Libertas Film Festival with a short documentary film Maria Bakker. She directed a short film The Mouth Of The Evil and short mucis documentaries The Followers Of Christ USA, Gospel Earl Bynuma feat. As We Are Cora Amstrong USA, 4 LOVE, USA.
Katja's visual art works are presented in the Groznjan Art establishment, and also at the exhibition Weisse Austellung, in the Gallery of Prima Center Berlin, alongside the White Exhibition of Eugen Borkovsky and Syntax of Rhythm Chang Mai, Thailand, Same Rain, Same Wind.
Over the last years she has been working on her feature film The Door of Redemption, which she co-authored.