Meet the JoyMakers!

Producer

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A multifaceted Digital Arts Creator, Filmmaker, and Educator, currently finalizing her Ph.D. at the University of Arts, Belgrade. She brings over a decade of expertise in storytelling, project management, and curriculum development from her tenure at UC Santa Cruz. As a faculty member, she has significantly contributed to program coordination, partnership development, and fundraising. She is also the CEO of GetVirtual, facilitating online growth for local businesses by linking them with college talent, and leads the United Services Agency, nonprofit that supports educational, cultural, and service projects.

Director 

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A Serbian film director, actress, film theorist, and acting pedagogue with a rich background in the arts, Jelena holds an undergraduate degree in acting and a Ph.D. in film theory from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (2008). Her scholarly work has been recognized by the Film Center of Serbia, and she has experience as a TV journalist. Jelena is the creative force behind three documentaries: "Turning Point" (2015), "Milestones" (2019), and "And the River Still Flows" (2023), all acclaimed at numerous domestic and international festivals. Since 2017, she collaborates with UN Women, further highlighting her diverse career in the film industry and commitment to gender issues.

Editor

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Graduated at Dramatic Art Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on film and video editing dept. 1990. Received “Slavko Vorkapić” student award for film editing, 1988. He attended postgraduate studies of film and media theory at Dramatic Art Institute in Belgrade. He is a founder of independent video production artterror from 1988, member of UFUTVS (1988), Dok Serbia (2016), association of authors of experimental films and video Kinetik Kolektiv (2019); he is the owner of film production FRAKCIJA (2015) with which he realized two awarded feature documentaries and a number of short documentary and experimental films. He collaborated with Ateliers Varan workshop as film editor (2006, 2022) and supervising film editor (2022, 2023).

Cinematographer 

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Was born on March 7, 1976. in Belgrade, Serbia. Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, department of Film and TV camera, finished in 2001. University of Art, Interdepartmental master’s studies (Digital arts) in Belgrade, finished in 2006. He works and deals in the fields of film, television and photography (participant of numerous art photography exhibitions, recipient of several awards). He is the author and director of photography of many film and tv achievements (from short video reports to all evening shows), documentaries, short feature films, films of specified purpose, music videos and commercials. Having cooperated with numerous TV station (Telemadrid, BBC, NOS, MBC, NHK, …) within the scope of news and documentary. He is employed on TV B92, as a head of camera department.