An active and energetic advocate of Croatian film, producer, film school teacher, co-founder and executive secretary of the Croatian Producers Association, as head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Albert Kapović had recently taken the Centre into membership of European Film Promotion, the European Union’s MEDIA program-backed body.

Born in Livno, southwestern Bosnia, Kapović grew up in the Croatian Adriatic coast town of Split before moving to Belgrade, Serbia to study producing.

In a long and varied professional career he worked as a researcher, project manager, theatre, film and television producer at home and abroad.

From 1988-1995 Kapović worked with a range of French television and production companies, including TF1, FR3, Antenne, Arkeion Films and Cosmos Film.

He was assistant director on a number of projects including Alain Ferrari and Bernard-Henri Levy’s 1994 feature length documentary Bosna!

On his return to Croatia, Albert Kapović worked until 1997 with the Croatian Journalists Association on training projects, legal initiatives and freedom of the media, while continuing to work for French clients as a producer of commercials.

Between 1997 and 2004 he was head of production at specialist animation studio Zagreb Film before in 2005 becoming a lecturer in production at Zagreb's academy of dramatic arts. He spent two years as a production consultant to the Croatian ministry of culture, 2006-2007, during which time he lobbied for the new legal framework that culminated in the opening in spring 2008 of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, of which he was appointed chief executive.

Albert Kapović is survived by his wife Ida and son Paolo.