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Vanja Jambrovic

Vanja

Vanja Jambrovic

Founder and Producer
RESTART

Vanja Jambrovic graduated in 2011 in film and theatre production at the Academy of Dramatic Art, Zagreb. Since 2009 she’s been making films with RESTART as producer and one of its founders. Vanja’s track record includes more than 20 documentary films of all shapes and sizes. Her films have circled the globe, having been screened in competition at IDFA, Hot Docs, Toronto IFF, Visions du Reel, Fid Marseille, Karlovy Vary IFF, Sarajevo FF and more. Vanja is also a Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee, for the feature documentary film “Museum of the Revolution” directed by Srđan Keča (2021). Also, a film that she produced «Srbenka» directed by Nebojša Slijepčević has been preselected for EFA Awards in the best documentary category in 2018 and won the Doc Alliance Award for the best documentary in 2018.  Since 2020 Vanja is teaching «Documentary production» at the Academy of Drama Art in Zagreb. RESTART is a multi-faceted organization -  apart from documentary film production, RESTART is also running educational programs. It has a distribution label (Restart label) and operates Dokukino KIC – a small art house cinema in the centre of Zagreb dedicated to creative documentaries.