Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic, the son of a German mother and a Croatian father, was born on 22 November 1988 in Darmstadt. Since 2010 he has been studying Digital Media at the Hochschule Darmstadt. In its focus on video, he works as a director and has already had opportunity to participate in several student productions. As part of the EU accession of Croatia, he started together with his fellow student Leonard Hofmann at the realization of the project "Pjesma sela Rude - The Song of the village Ruda", a documentary about the mentality and peculiarities of the traditional rural population of Dalmatia in the hometown village of his father. Since 2014 he works as a freelancer and junior producer for image films in Frankfurt.