Jan Hadzic

Jan Hadzic was born on October 24, 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He's an Actor and an Art director, known for Oni/Them. Jan was brought up in Ljubljana and during his high school years he started performing in school's theater productions. With the school's acting group Carpe Diem he performed in the biggest Slovenian Culture and Congress Centre Cankarjev Dom in a leading role of Scuka in the theater play "Za narodov blagor". In the same year he was co-hosting 1997 Gimnazija Ledina's graduation show in Cankarjev Dom. During his college years he worked as an extra on several production sets such as the television show Odklop hosted by Borut Veselko, feature film Varuh meje directed by Maja Weiss , 46 minutes by Matjaz Brumen (short), Back in EU (short)by Darko Stante, Intimacy (short) by Darko Stante. He co-founded several independent cultural societies such as Talija, Youth integration of film fans and Cut! Production which all focused on film, commercial video projects, documentaries and theater plays. His most engaging theater plays include the roles of Stanley in Ray Cooney's Run for your Wife and the role of Jaka in Darko Stante's Expectations. After completing his education on Faculty of Architecture which culminated in the Perspective 2009 Award for his diploma work Multimedia Triangle Maribor 2012, he started to focus his work on the visual side of arts. Working as an Art Director in the mobile games company Razum earned him praise and critical acclaim for Dawn of Play's most prominent games Monkey Labour and Dream of Pixels which got featured on Kotaku on several occasions. Seeking new challenges he started turning back to the medium he loves the most - film, whether through visual pre or post-production or acting.