Natalija Vekic

BIOGRAPHIE

Natalija Vekic is a screenwriter and director. She won a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival for her short film Lost & Found, and was the recipient of a Princess Grace Award in film. Natalija is a graduate of the UCLA MFA screenwriting program where she was one of eight writers selected to work with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black in a feature screenwriting seminar. She was invited to participate in the Film Independent Screenwriting Lab and selected as an honoree in the Writers Guild of America West's Feature Access Diversity Project with her feature screenplay for Jane. Her recent directing work includes a short documentary portrait of Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green and artist and Illustrator Shyama Golden. Natalija was nominated for two Webby Awards for a short documentary portrait of iconic designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon produced for Adobe Create Magazine. She received a "Special Project Grant" from the Princess Grace Foundation and ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to produce the short, narrative Jane. Natalija is Bosnian and Serbian and immigrated to Chicago when she was six-years old. She’s convinced that not being able to speak English didn’t just ostracize her from her classmates, but taught her to be a keen observer and sparked her love of storytelling. Dreaming up stories was a way to regain her voice and make sense of her new home. Natalija writes and adapts screenplays for film and television about true or historic events from the perspective of outsiders, misfits and women who shape history, but are often forgotten. She loves to tackle complex and gritty female characters.

FILMOGRAPHIE