Screenwriter
Creative
consultant
for TV series
Educator
“I ignite over TV projects that dare to be more than mere entertainment: a platform for thought-provoking ideas that challenge the status quo, tackling tabu themes.”
About me
She has worked as a Creative Producer, Head Writer and screenwriter on various types of TV series – crime, historical, thrillers, sitcoms and one soap opera – with hundreds of hours shown on national and regional television. She also starred in one episode of the sitcom, but has since turned down acting offers.
European Showrunner Programme
The first professional training for showrunners in Europe, organized by the International Filmschool (IFS) in Cologne.
European TV Drama Series Lab
Organized by the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin and MediaXchange.
MFI Script 2
Workshop
Organized by the Mediterranean Film Institute in Greece.
There she learned firsthand from the most respected authors of TV series and movies, such as Jeppe Gjervig Gram (Borgen, Follow the Money), Jeff Melvoin (Killing Eve, Northern Exposure), Frank Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle, The X -Files), Hagai Levi (Our Boys, In Treatment), Peter Blake (House M.D., Billions), Sven Clausen DR (The Eagle), Christina Lazaridi (Nobody’s Watching) and others.
Sanja is the author of the first book about TV series in the former Yugoslav countries:
"Quality TV series: The Millennial Age of the Screen" (2017).
She worked as the main screenwriter on the first crime TV series in the region of the former Yugoslavia, Good Intentions (HRT), with the first domestic writers’ room. Since then, she has worked in numerous script rooms of different layouts and sizes.
And she can’t wait for the next one, it’s the most fun place in the production.
She wrote a dozen original screenplays for TV and film, some of which received international recognition (The House, at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, 2010) and national recognition in the form of support from the Croatian Audiovisual Center, and several TV concepts were bought by TV networks. In her dramatic works, she likes to touch on controversial topics with the obligatory dose of dark humor.
She has worked as a creative producer, head writer and screenwriter on various types of TV series – crime, historical, thriller, sitcom and one soap opera – with hundreds of hours shown on national and regional television. And she starred in one episode of the sitcom, but since then she has turned down acting offers.
The Artistic Consultant
She was the Artistic Advisor at the Croatian Audiovisual Center assessing national TV project in development, and has worked as an expert evaluator of TV series and movie projects for the Creative Europe MEDIA Program, as well as for regional broadcasters and independent producers in Southeastern Europe.
She led renowned screenwriting workshops in Croatia (Vukovar Film Festival, Center for Creative Writing, ADU) and occasionally holds lectures on writing and producing TV series in the region.
She led the first public forums on the topic of quality TV series in Croatia.
She is a member of the Croatian Union of Freelance Artists and the Union of Screenwriters (SPID).
Currently works as creative production consultant and script coach in regional TV productions
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