Based on the Serbian folk tale Girl Faster Than a Horse, the animated film TRKIJA/ ELUSIVENESS is a story about a girl of peculiar origin and even more peculiar beauty. She challenges her suitors to a race for a golden apple with a promise to marry the one who wins, and with a threat that everyone will perish if she reaches the apple first. The core of this film is human need to reach the unreachable and to obtain perfection.

As a little girl, Marija Vulic dreamed of creating animated films, and today she is doing just that together with students of the School of Animated Film she started in 2007 in the Cultural Center. As a mentor and the leader of the school, she has taken part in the creation of more than 20 animated films awarded at national and international children film festivals. Vulic is the founder of ‘JAFILM’, and the art director of Animator Fest/ European Youth Festival of Animated Film.

Vulic earned her degree in Applied Sculpting from the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in 1996. She has worked as an art curator at the Cultural Center of Despotovac, where she also worked as a director for three years. She served as secretary of the Cultural and Educational Community in Jagodina, and as of 2007 she is working as an art curator in the Cultural Centre ‘Svetozar Marković’ in Jagodina.