Biography

Vjekoslav Katusin, born October 28th, 1983 in Mainz, Germany, is a Croatian independent film producer, director, writer, and actor. He wrote and produced the feature-length thrillers: "Live Fast and Die Young" and "Der Letzte Coup (The Last Coup)" the following year. He showed his acting chops in the English motion pictures " Bloodrayne: The Third Reich" and "Max Schmeling". In 2015, he formed the production company Dream Team Pictures to fund new projects and start a new wave of Croatian genre cinema aimed to appeal to a worldwide audience.

Also, in 2015, he wrote and produced the pilot episode for a new international crime series "Dead End: At The End We Die" which had its premiere at Harmony Gold Theater in 2016 and received brilliant reviews.

The production of his supernatural thriller C.L.E.A.N. released in October 2020, received numerous awards at international film festivals, amongst them the "Dreamachine International Filmfestival" and the "New York Movie Awards". The movie also received two Oskull awards at the "Festival of Serbian Fantastic Film" in Belgrade.

In 2021 he produced the found-footage movie "Unbound Evil" which had its worldwide premiere in Munich in February 2022. The film received the Vegas Movie Award in the category BEST HORROR FILM and BEST DIRECTOR and more than twenty other wins all over the world. In April 2022, the film was released in theaters worldwide.

The award-winning producer is currently in pre-production of "Wrongful Death" (that stands for an actual prequel to "C.L.E.A.N. ) that will be shoot in January 2023 in Croatia and in pre-production of the upcoming movies "Save the Last Bullet" (war drama), "Devil's Work" (mystery horror), and C.L.E.A.N. 2.

His most significant media success will be the production of his "passion project" feature-length mafia thriller "Someone Dies Tonight" with Eric Roberts, Costas Mandylor, Tom Sizemore, Christopher Lambert, Michael Pare, Robert Miano, Mike Dopud, and Jenny Paris.
- IMDb mini biography by: Sebastian Baumert