Lidija Zelovic

Lidija was born in 1970 in Yugoslavia. She studied Yugoslav literature and Serbo- Croatian language at the University of Sarajevo and had worked on Bosnian Television starting at the age of 19. Lidija moved to the Netherlands and has been living there ever since 1993, which is a year after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina broke out. She graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the Film & Television Science Department at the University of Amsterdam. Starting in 1997, Lidija has worked as a researcher and subsequently as a director, scriptwriter, and producer at various television channels, including several Dutch television broadcasters (IKON mostly), in the United

Kingdom for Channel 4 and BBC, as well as at the German/French ARTE channel. Lidija has had a role in numerous film selection committees at film festivals around the world (fiction and documentary films). Lidija has also been serving on the committee making decisions on which film projects will be financially supported by The Dutch Media Fund (2012/2017). Recently, I signed a contract with Eurimage as an independent external expert. From 2007 until 2019, Lidija lectured on screenplay writing and research for documentary films to students enrolled in political science majors at the University of Amsterdam.