Born in Paklenica in 1936, Nedeljko Dragič designed, animated and wrote 20 animated films between 1961 and 1993. He directed 14 films in total and his work won awards at major international animation festivals like Annecy, Oberhausen and Zagreb. His film Tup Tup (1972) received an Academy Award® nomination in 1973. Dragič directed the short film Brain Mechanized (00:41:35–00:30:53) for the NFB and Zagreb Film’s omnibus work Man the Polluter.