Branko Ivanda has been directing feature and tv films, tv dramas, documentaries, theatre plays and writing scripts and essays for over thirty years. A number of his tv films were awarded on eminent international festivals (Mar del Plata, London, Los Angeles, New York, critics award fipresci on the Berlin festival, Award at the Festival in Bergamo, multiple representative of hrt-a on prix italia, several Golden Arenas for feature films, Best foreign film World Fest Houston, twice laureate of tv Festival in Portoroz, etc.) He has been teaching at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb since 1980 with a five-year break from 1985 to 1990, at which time he was teaching at University of California Los Angeles.