Dražen was born in Virovitica in 1985. As a little boy, he liked English, chemistry and animals and his biggest idol was Sir David Frederick Attenborough. He studied Phonetics and Croatian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He spent eight years volunteering for the European Youth Parliament and during that time he had different jobs that were not very interesting, but still educational in many ways. Since 2012 he is working at the Croatian National Radio as a journalist and a radio show host. In autumn of 2015 he enrolled in Restarts school of documentary film because making movies seemed like a good idea.