Biography

Ivona Juka is the author of award-winning short films „Garbage“ and „Editing“, which was selected in Official competition of numerous A festivals in the USA. She was selected by European Film Academy as one of 5 European students to make short film for awards ceremony in Berlin, and to participate at the EFA conference «Cinema of Tomorrow» in Warsaw as one of the most perspective young directors in Europe.

Her previous short VIEW FROM A WELL was awarded as Best Film at American IFF and Ivona was awarded as Best Director.

Ivona Juka is the scriptwriter and director of full-length creative documentary „Facing the Day“, the most awarded Croatian documentary film. It was awarded as Best documentary at goEast FF in Wiesbaden, DokMa FF, Sarajevo FF and by Croatian Film Critics and won Grand Prix at Croatian Film Days. Film had very successful cinema distribution in Croatia, BiH and FYROM.

YOU CARRY ME is Ivona’s debut feature fiction film. Film had the premiere at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2015. After Karlovy Vary, it was awarded with 6 awards (Pula film festival 4 awards; Montenegro Film Festival – award for the Best Director; Zadar Film Festival – Grand Prix) and invited to many other film festivals as International Film Festival of India – Goa (November 2015.); Fest – Belgrade International Film Festival (February 2016); Muenchen International Film Festival (June 2016) and many others.

Ivona Juka is a member of the European Film Academy.