A Fistful of Nothing

comedy series
in project development

Written and Directed byJasna Nanut
Produced byHrvoje Osvadić
Duration26 minutes per episode
Number of episodes per season12
StructureContinuing
ThemeLooking for a roof over your head during real estate crisis
Target audienceWide

Awards

WINNER: TUTOR’S SPECIAL MENTION / Series Rough Pitch – The Balkan Way by MEDIA Creative Europe 2024

WINNER: TV HIT – TV Series Pitch / Pulski filmski festival 2024

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Synopsis

Comedy series about male Carrie Bradshaw in his early 40s looking for literary stardom in a sexless city of Zagreb. Svirac is willing to endure the worst humiliations in order to fit into Zagreb hipster cultural scene, but when he suddenly becomes homeless, he needs to put his dreams aside and use
his survival skills to solve the fundamental life mystery of finding a roof over his head right in the middle of real estate crisis.

The series is inspired by eleven books of the award-winning Croatian author Željko Špoljar, whose alter ego – a subversive writer and columnist Pavle Svirac – makes fun of everyone who thinks they are someone, and in Croatia – that is almost everyone.

About director:

Jasna Nanut

Jasna Nanut (born 1975) holds her master’s degree in film and television directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. Alongside film, she also works in television where she began her career. She is the author of six short feature films that have been screened at the Zagreb, Pula and Sarajevo Film Festivals, in Tallinn, Motovun, Plans d’Angers, Poitiers, and many others. She is a two-time recipient of the Oktavijan Award (Croatian Film Critics Award), for her graduation film Playing the Tiger and her first professional short film Tanya. Her debut feature Seventh Heaven was proclaimed by the critics as “the most delightful Croatian cinematic treat of the 2000s”. It is airing on HBO MAX. She is a member of the Croatian Film Directors Guild.