Luka Rukavina graduated dramaturgy at the Academy of dramatic Arts in Zagreb and the film and TV direction programme at The FAMU in Prague. He worked as a screenwriter and creative producer of different TV formats and wrote articles and film reviews, as well as several stage plays. As a director he signed over 100 short documentary forms for the children and youth TV programs. He directed more than twenty dubbings of major animated movies in Croatia. He gaind expirience in live action short films Brija (2012) and Ne pričamo o Vama nego o djeci (2015), that were both well received. Cricket & Antoinettte is his first animated feature, which he also co-wrote with Rona Žulj.