Marina Tetarić Prusec is a Croatian film director.
Born in Zagreb, Croatia. She graduated from Drama, Film and Television Academy in Zagreb – film and television directing (mentor: Dušan Vukotić). She also studied sociology in Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
Two times she won prizes for screenplays (in the competitions) in Sarajevo, so she went there and directed two films.
A few years she directs a series of documentary and documentary-feature films for the Croatian National Television. She is developing not only in writing screenplays and in directing, but also in organisation and in production of all kinds of forms (she created short forms, commercial spots, documentaries and features).
After that, a few years she works in the Ministry of Defense RH – in Public Relations Department which includes film-TV studio. There she works as civil person in developing production of different forms: documentaries, documentary-features, spots, clips, coverages. She works as director, writer, in organisation and in presentation production in public.
International experience she acquired in a several times – in 2001 and 2003 she went to Rome in Italy, where she presents Croatia at the International Film Festival „Eserciti e Popoli“. There, in 2001 for her documentary „Under The Horizon“ she won First prize for the best film in its category (in competition of 70 countries from all over the world).
Last few years she works in the independent productions. She is also the author of fun scientific web portal with more than 300,000 visits a month in almost ten countries.
She is married, has two sons.