Founded in honor of the filmmaker and author Vedran Šamanović, assigned for the first time at Pula Film Festival 2010, the annual award "Vedran Šamanović" is awarded this year to "a film artist who is in any branch of film art in short or long meter with an innovative approach expanded the boundaries of film expression in Croatian film ".

By the decision of the three-member jury (Janko Heidl, Diana Nenadić and Jasna Zastavniković), the jubilee tenth "Šamanović" was awarded to Martina Meštrović and Tanja Vujasinović, directors and screenwriters of the documentary-animated film "A Cat Is Always Female" produced by the Creative Union at the 12th Mediterranean Film Festival Split.

The award was founded by five film associations: Croatian Society of Filmmakers, Croatian Association of Filmmakers, Association of Croatian Film Directors, Croatian Film Critics Association and Croatian Film Association.

The first time since the foundation of the prize will be solemnly delivered outside the Pula Arena, under the program of Mediterranean Film Festival in Split during the central evening screenings at open air cinema Bačvice on 21 June 2019 at 21:30.