Scriptwriter
Born:
13.11.1988, Zagreb (Croatia)
Education:
2013 MA in Dramaturgy – Writing for film and theatre, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb
2010 BA in Dramaturgy, Academy of Dramatic Arts, Zagreb
Place of Residence:
Zagreb (Croatia)
Biography
Ivan Turković was born and raised in Zagreb where he still lives. His interest in writing stems from writing short stories which were published in several Croatian literature magazines. During the time at the Academy of Dramatic Arts his focus shifted towards theatre and, especially, film. In the last several years he’s been working mostly as a freelance screenwriter in film and TV projects.
Sample of previous work
Projects in development
LJUBAV 🙂 / LOVE 🙂
short fiction
developed script
Squeezing love into a box.
Attached to the project: director
Looking for: co-producer
Keywords: love, sex, technology, tinder, loneliness, impotence, tableaux
Filmography and Awards
2018 LOVEBOX, short film, writer/director
2017 MARY, short film directed by Juraj Primorac, writer
2017 DEEP CUTS, omnibus feature – segment directed by Filip Peruzović, co-writer
2016 JUHUHU, children’s TV show directed by Filip Peruzović, writer
2015 REST IN PEACE (S2), drama series directed by Goran Dukić, co-writer
2013 REST IN PEACE (S1), drama series directed by Kristijan Milić, co-writer
My five favourite films
- Solaris (1972)
by Andrei Tarkovsky - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
by Stanley Kubrick - Vozvrashchenie (2003)
by Andrey Zvyagintsev - De ofrivilliga (2008)
by Ruben Östlund - Lourdes (2009)
by Jessica Hausner
Favourite scene I wrote
INT. TOW TRUCK – DAY
Tow truck is parked on the company’s parking lot. Marinko has just entered the vehicle. Anto looks at him seriously, then starts talking…
ANTO
Listen, Marinko, you caught me a
bit off guard with what you said.
MARINKO
(trying to express himself)
Yeah… I don’t know… I think…
that she’s lookin at me… That she
sees what I’m doing…
ANTO
(interrupts him)
Of course. Now let me tell you one
thing. If you haven’t told me that,
I wouldn’t tell you, but now I’ll
tell you, listen. When I was your
age, how old are you now?
MARINKO
25.
ANTO
I was about 20, 19, I don’t know.
And I had a friend. Stevo, God
bless his soul, he was a junky,
these drugs, that’s a horror… And
nothing, Stevo got wasted as
always, just lying there on the
floor, sleeping, and the other guy
who was there – piece of shit –
took Stevo’s girlfriend to the
other room.
Short pause. Anto continues in a quieter, more fatal manner.
ANTO
I stood alone. I’m listening, these
two are screaming from the other
room. Fucking, but like they’re
killing each other. I see Stevo,
he’s waking up, he can hear them,
the poor guy…
(searching for words)
And just from nowhere… I feel
this… it just runs through me…
I become good, you know… I feel
sorry for the people, I feel sorry
for myself… And I decide right
that moment… all the best, you
know… I mean, it’s not like I
have to decide something…
MARINKO
It’s not like that to me. I don’t
feel anything, I just see her…
ANTO
(in the “by the way” manner)
But in my case it wasn’t Mary – it
was Jesus.
MARINKO
(a bit sceptically)
How do you know it was Jesus?
ANTO
(defensively)
How do I know? He ran through me!
You just know that, for fuck’s
sake…
(getting angry)
How do you know!? You feel the
soul.. The soul pulsating… It’s
good… goodness… love, for
fuck’s sake! What how do I know!?
Did I ask you that? How the fuck do
you know it’s Mary!?
MARINKO
(simple)
Well, I see her… If it’s not some
other woman.
ANTO
Some other woman?? – for fuck’s
sake Marinko! And I’m trying to
talk seriously with you…
All upset, Anto leaves the vehicle. Marinko is left alone, anxious and confused.
My favourite film quote
“Husband and wife arguing while he’s sitting on the toilete…
DEBBIE: Who takes a half hour to go to the bathroom?
PETE: (without even thinking) John Goodman.”
–
This is 40 (2012)
