Experience and References

  • fixer and location manager: first British season of the game show / reality TV series Forever Glory in Croatia, produced by Twofour Broadcast for ITV.
  • fixer for a documentary in Medjugorje in Bosnia for the National Geographic, New York.
  • fixer, location scout, local producer for a commercial for a Samsung camera, produced by the National Geographic Asia (Hong Kong) and Fox.
  • fixer and location scout for two episodes of the Discovery Channel TV series The Unexplained Files (second season, production: Raw, London, UK) – one on the Bosnian Pyramids, the other on the unusual events in Medjugorje, Herzegovina
  • fixer and interpreter for the 3-day shooting of 2 interviews with Croatian/Bosnian soccer/football coach Chiro Blazevic for Manoto in Koper, Slovenia
  • fixer for a 1-hour documentary on Bosnia for Manoto
  • research, story backgroud, location scouting, fixer for KRO (Netherlands)
  • fixer for BBC Fast Track – a travel story on Croatia as a year-round location
  • fixer for the Zagreb episode of the reality TV series House Hunters International
  • fixer, filed producer, location scout and location manager for Arte (France and Germany) and Cineteve (France) for the Shadow Fighters documentary TV series in Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia);
  • fixer, field producer (before and during the shooting) + translating and transcription (after the shooting) for Channel 7 (“Seven Network”, Australia) and Zagara Films (Italia);
  • field producer for Walt Disney Productions (Future Leaders documentary)

During the war in Croatia and Bosnia (throught the 90s): fixing and field producing for BBC, BBC Scotland, ITN, WTN, Visnews, ZDF, RTL, RTP and other TV agencies or networks.

  • Stringer for Bloomberg Business News for a while after the war.
  • During the war in Croatia and Bosnia: more than two years full-time on a retainer for the Los Angeles Times: fixing, researching, generating story ideas, providing story backgrounds, covering press conferences…
  • Also fixer for the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Dagens Nyheter, Die Welt, Asahi Shimbun, Tokio Shimbun…
  • Freelance journalist before the war (Croatian Danas and Start magazines, Slovenian Telex – Zagreb correspondent for cultural events)

Fixer for NPR and BBC Radio during the war.
Editor, journalist, reporter, host, Radio 101, Zagreb, Croatia, for 6 years, before the war.

Harrison’s Flowers by Elie Chouraqui, 7 Films Cinema, France: location scout, pre-production research and organisation, translating the script, organising Elie’s and scriptwriter’s trips to all original locations mentioned in the script, obtaining all necessary permits, researching Croatian TV’s archives for original footage from the time and locations where the action of the film is taking place…