Octopod Productions is a Croatian documentary house. We develop and produce author-driven films — and finish them with award-winning sound.
Development and production for documentary, backed by a post-production suite that has won at Pula.
From first treatment to delivery: development, financing, shooting and post for author-driven documentary film and series.
Golden Arena-winning sound design, dialogue editing and final mix for film, series and installation.
Composition and music production written to picture, plus songs written on commission across genres — recorded and mixed in house.
Full-service podcast production — recording, editing, mastering and launch strategy for ongoing shows.
Music videos from concept to grade — shot, cut and finished with the same people who do the sound.
Editing, colour and finishing for short form, campaign work and social cutdowns.
Feature films, documentary series and podcasts our team has worked on — including a Golden Arena for sound at Pula.
Golden Arena for Sound Design, Pula 2019Feature · Thriller · 90′
Martina delivers pizza at her father's place for the summer and meets Filip, who keeps ordering. An innocent escape to Zrće turns into a violent nightmare.
Also awarded at Sherman Oaks, Oniros and the Indian World Film Festival.
Postmen
Documentary series · 5 episodes · HRT
Five stories of the different lives and the many challenges postal workers meet. It shows the conditions they work in across Croatia and, filming region by region, documents and portrays the different mentalities of the people who live there.
Picked up by Echelon Studios for the USA, Europe and Asia (Roku, Future Today, Bibliotheca, Xiaowu Bros, Meta X, The Stream, Spotify, Allrites, Ritestream, BH Media and others). Official selection at the Echelon Studios International Film Festival (Los Angeles), Your Way International Film Festival (Valletta), Black Owl Festival (Bodrum) and Bonne Chance Film Festival (Paris).
Cycle
Documentary series · 5 episodes
A feature documentary in five episodes and seven life stories: Teenagers, Pensioners, Četeri, The Prostitute and The Abstainer.
Ran for three years on the film channel Klasik TV, with episodes shown over 400 times. Screened as a feature in the Doc Market programme at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
The Tower of Strength
Feature · Historical drama · 97′
Wartime Yugoslavia. A small child, fleeing the fascist unit that killed his parents and burned their village, finds shelter in the house of a stranger — an Albanian named Nur Doka. The child is Christian, Nur is Muslim, and in wartime Yugoslavia that difference often marked the line between life and death. With his home under siege, Nur must choose between handing the boy over and risking his own family to save him.
Behind One Smile
Feature documentary · 92′
A fourteen-year-old leaves a devastated Aleppo and takes the Balkan route, sheltering in a Croatian camp on his way to reuniting his family in Germany.
In Search of the City
Documentary short · 26′
A short documentary that uses a poetic-observational method of filming to convey the existential relationship between people and the city.
Twelve international festivals, from Pula to Goa and Stockholm.
Documentary short · 18′49″
A recreational football match between the veterans of NK Povjerenici Dinamo, filmed observationally, conveying the basic vitality and the noble competitiveness of playing sport for its own sake.
Best documentary short, Chitram International Film Festival.
Dolac Market
Documentary short · 15′3″
A short documentary essay describing Zagreb's Dolac market through three visual stories — Dolac and the coronavirus, Dolac and the rain, Dolac and the street musician — as a dynamic place where the natural and the urban elements of life are traded.
Screened at the Lift-Off Sessions, Kerala Short Film Festival and Festival Angaelica, among others.
Less is More
Documentary short · 15′
A short documentary on doing with less, and on what that turns out to give back.
Special jury award for best documentary short, Sittannavasal International Film Festival.
Motion
Documentary short
A short documentary built on movement itself — what carries people through a place, and how that looks when the camera stays with it.
Award for best documentary short, Rohip International Film Festival.
Quarantine
Documentary short · 6′30″
In March 2020 Zagreb was struck by both the coronavirus pandemic and an earthquake. The streets emptied, quarantine began, time seemed to stop. A poetic documentary essay on the passing of that time — not only in a material and biological sense, but a spiritual one.
Screened at Croatian Film Days, Festival Angaelica and the Aasha International Film Festival, among others.
Podcast library · short-format miniseries
A growing library of short-format miniseries, each on one health topic, built from the voices of patients, carers and clinicians and reviewed by health professionals. Subjects run from rare diseases to the common cold.
Podcast series · 80+ episodes
Dr Louise Schaper and Dr George Margelis on global digital health — the trends, the debates and their own reading of the week's news.
Podcast series · 120+ episodes
The innovators, clinicians, inventors and investors reshaping health and wellness, in conversation with host Dan Kendall.
Eight new titles, in different phases of development — documentary and fiction. Stay tuned.
Talk to us about co-productionThe people behind the films.
Producer / CEO
Musician and podcast producer with dozens of shows to his name as editor, engineer and head of production. Founded Octopod Productions to bring good sound to a wider world, and now produces the company's documentary slate. Loves to compose and perform, especially with more than a few jazz chords.
Journalist / Director
Journalist and documentary director. Reported for Croatian National Television across six programmes before turning to film. Director of the feature documentary and series Ciklus, whose episodes ran over 400 times on the film channel Klasik TV; of the HRT docuseries Poštari, distributed worldwide through Echelon Studios; and of the shorts U potrazi za gradom, Tržnica Dolac, Karantena, Povjerenici Dinamo, Manje je više and Kretanje, all screened at numerous festivals. Frequently his own writer, cinematographer and editor.
Sound Designer / Composer
Award-winning composer and sound designer. Winner of the Golden Arena for Best Sound at the Pula Film Festival, and nominated for Best Sound across all categories at the 4th Anatomy: Crime & Horror International Film Festival in Athens. Loves playing the congas and feeding his birds.
Co-production, commissions, or a film you want made. Write to us.
