Born 1975 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. At the Age of 14, Stjepan moved with his family to Germany where he went to high school. This was the start for many of his later travels. After graduation from New York Film Academy, he moved in 1999 to Lisbon, Portugal, where he worked as Editor and 1st Assistant Director, before he started his own directing career in advertising in year 2002. Stjepan has developed and directed over 200 commercials on 6 different continents and has won numerous awards for the biggest clients and brands until he decided to start “shifting” towards fiction. After couple of internships in theatre and film, Stjepan co-directed in 2016 a TV Series “The Boys” for Portuguese Television and directed documentaries in Germany, Czech Republic and Serbia, before he got a chance to be co-director and 2nd unit director on Netflix Production “Gloria” in 2020. Stjepan is currently developing couple of fiction projects for production companies in Germany, Czech Republic and Portugal.
