Ivana Todorovic

Ivana Todorovic graduated from Belgrade University with a diploma in Anthropology. Her graduate thesis was her first documentary, Everyday Life of Roma Children from Block 71. At Ateliers Varan Paris, a film workshop in Belgrade, she made her second video, Adem's Island.

In 2007, after studying at the New Policy School, an NGO Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Belgrade, Ivana went on to make the short documentary, Rapresent, about a 19-year-old homeless graffiti artist, which premiered at the London International Film Festival LIDF and received Best National Award at XVIII International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade, Serbia. The film's subject, Bojan, overdosed on heroin in June 2009; Rapresent may be seen here.

Ivana enrolled in the Documentary Media Studies program at the New School in New York in 2008 and there she made A Harlem Mother, a documentary about broken family relationships due to youth gun violence in Harlem. The film, which had its premier at the Maysles Cinema, tells its story from the dual perspectives of Jean, a mother fighting gun violence and supporting other patents, and her son Latron, using footage from Latron's own documentary.

Films Available from DER:
Everyday Life of Roma Children from Block 71 (2006)

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