Zlatko Vidackovic is a freelance film critic, editor-in-chief of www.filmovi.hr online film magazine, and since 2005, artistic director of Pula Film Festival, the oldest (founded in 1953) and the most visited film festival in Croatia. He is the founder and programme director of Art-cinema Metropolis in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

He was elected president of the Croatian Society of Film Critics five times.

He has been a Fipresci juror at film festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Venice and San Francisco. He lives and works in Zagreb.