Branko Ištvančić (born April 5, 1967[1]) is a Croatian film director.
Born in Subotica, Ištvančić graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1999.
Since 2003 he has been employed at the Croatian Radiotelevision, working as a director of documentary films, educational programs, and television series and films.
Ištvančić's award-winning documentary The Cormorant Scarecrow (1998) has been described by Croatian film critics as one of the best Croatian documentary films of the 1990s.
[1][2] In 2012, he created a film called Od zrna do slike (Serbian: Од зрна до слике, From Grain to Painting), about the Bunjevci Croatian straw artists, Ana Milodanović and Josefa Skenderović [hr].