Radivoje Andrić was born in Sarajevo in 1967. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts at Belgrade University in 1994 with an MA in film and TV directing. He has over 20 years’ experience of working as a 1st AD for renowned ex-Yugoslav directors, including Zivojin Pavlovic, Srđan Karanovic, Rajko Grlic and Srđan Dragojevic. He has also directed several short films and documentaries for B92, the Serbian independent TV and radio station, many of which have been screened at international film festivals, including Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Tinklai and Huesca. He directed his first feature film in 1998 – Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe (Tri palme za dve bitange i ribicu), which was a great box-office success in Serbian cinemas and was also screened at festivals in Cottbus, Sofia, Prague, Moscow, St Petersburg and London. His second feature Thunderbirds (Munje, 2001) was the number-one box-office film in Serbia in 2001. His 2004 feature When I Grow up I’ll be a Kangaroo (Kad porastem biću Kengur) won awards at Motovun and Thessaloniki film festivals. Andrić is also the author of a book for children How to Make a Movie, which has been translated into Indonesian, Chinese and Polish.