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An American-Croatian director, actor, writer, and producer, that has appeared in Croatian, German, British, French, and American TV Series, as well as Feature Films, and many Short Films. He is a Method Actor known for a very intense look, mostly playing intense complex characters, known for his ability to transform psychophysically for a character, while completely changing his look and character for the role. He is also known for being able to produce a vast variety of different sounds and phonetic levels, giving him a broad range, and ability to speak in a vast variety of different dialects and voices, as well as the ability to learn and speak in different languages needed for the role, with the authentic pronunciations. For example, completely changing his appearance, and learning to speak the Afghan Pashto language, for the film Drop Gun (2011) by Magnus Persson.

Ivan Pavletic was born in Karlovac, Croatia, and grew up between Croatia, Germany, and the US. His love for films and arts began already in his early stages of life, when he was making films and drawing cartoons as a 10 year old boy, even appearing on a TV Show. By his teenage years he was the chief cartoonist for a High School newspaper, and by the age of 14, became a member of the Thespian Society of Theatre Arts. After experiencing the war in Croatia in the early 1990's, this gave him an extra edge in the Method Acting abilities, and then he finished the School of Applied Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, where he mastered painting and drawing, which he also used for painting giant back drops for Theatre Plays and Musicals, such as My Fair Lady, Pirates of Penzance, and Oklahoma. He then studied Motion Picture Production at the Career Education center in Colorado, where he also made his first experimental psychedelic student film "Age of Pisces (1995)", inspired by his experiences in the Croatian Independence War.

After joining the US Navy in the mid 1990's, Ivan Pavletic started to model for John Casablancas, and John Robert Powers. After some modeling jobs, commercials, as well as training in Community Theatre and Situation Comedy, Pavletic started his career in the US films, where he got a role as a stuntman in the 20th Century Fox' "Titus (1999)" with Anthony Hopkins, and Jessica Lange. He then continued working both as an actor and a stuntman in other American and European co-productions. In 2003, he acted in an American-British-French co-production of "Le Femme Musketeer (2004)" with Gérard Depardieu, and Michael York. From there on, Ivan Pavletic worked for various Croatian and German Film Production Houses, such as Jadran Film, ZDF, and RTL, where he also got a supporting acting role as a doctor, on the first Croatian Telenovela TV Series "Villa Maria (2004-2005)", which also led to other TV and Feature Films, such as the TV Movie "Princess Undercover (2005)", and the German Feature Film "Eine Krone für Isabell (2006)" with Felicitas Woll. Pavletic also starred in many short films, of which some were shown and even won awards on International Film Festivals.

In 2008, Ivan Pavletic, furthered his studies and education in Writing and Directing at the Colorado Film School and Regis University in Denver, CO. By 2010, he started working on the Roman Epic Saga of two parts, called "476 A.D.", which he wrote, produced, and directed. The first part of this Roman Saga is the feature film 476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries (2013), which had it's premiere in February 2014, in the historic Mayan Theater, in Denver, CO. Where it also had a very successful turnout, and has since had festival showings, where it also won multiple awards. The second part of this Roman Saga, is the feature film 476 A.D. Chapter Two: The Dawning of the Age of Pisces (2014), and is presently in the finishing stages of post-production, which should have it's premiere in the late 2014, or early 2015. The 476 A.D. Saga, starring James Rusell, Spencer Kane, Piotr Gzowski, and the famous Croatian actor Igor Galo is about the very end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Dark Ages, which deals with human nature, and the fire in our hearts and souls, that burns forever. Both films were shot between 2010 and 2012, in and around Denver, CO., Rome, Italy, and Croatia.

Some of Ivan Pavletic's other directorial works includes a feature film SANE in 1974 (2013), about troubled Vietnam Vets returning to the US, after the ordeal of the Vietnam War, as well as short films such as Tough Luck (2009), The Cosmopolitan (2010). He is presently working on the pre-production for the biographical feature film about one of the biggest geniuses of all time, Nikola Tesla, called Tesla: Beyond Imagination (2014) (Tesla: Iznad maste). It is supposed to feature Rade Serbedzija as Milutin Tesla, Igor Galo, and Pavletic is presently in the talks with the Australian actor Eric Bana, to star as Nikola Tesla him self.

Some of Pavletic's other acting roles in Feature Films include The Cylinder (2013) a modern day Western, directed by L.J. Dougherty, Washington Park (2014) directed by Matty O'Connor, and White Orb (2014) directed by Alex Amadae, with whom Ivan Pavletic is also working as the lead role in a feature comedy, Captain Boom (2014). Pavletic has also acted in a vast variety of short films, such as Smoke (2008), Drop Gun (2011), Déchiré (2011), Homesick (2011), Tyranny and Grace (2012), Rebirth (2012), Open Your Eyes (2012), You versus Me (2012), Path to Nowhere (2012), Between Haircuts (2013), Escape (2013), The Low Road Baby (2013), Five Steps (2013), Fire Ripples (2014), The Field That Grows Faster (2014), and many more.

476 A.D. Chapter One: The Last Light of Aries

476 A.D. Chapter Two: The Dawning of the Age of Pisces

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