Igor Drljaca | |
Birth Name: | Igor Drljača |
Birth Place: | Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Occupation: | Filmmaker, professor |
Alma Mater: | York University |
Years Active: | 2009–present |
Known For: | diasporic cinema |
Igor Drljaca (born 1983) is a Bosnian Canadian film writer, producer and director.[1] A graduate of York University,[2] he cofounded the Canadian production company Timelapse Pictures with Albert Shin.[3]
As a writer and director, he has made the narrative feature films Krivina (2012), The Waiting Room (2015) and The White Fortress (2021),[4] as well as the feature documentary The Stone Speakers (2018). His short films include Woman in Purple (2009); On a Lonely Drive (2009); (2011), which was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards; and The Archivists (2020).
As a producer, he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards for Shin's Best Picture-nominated film In Her Place (2014),[5] and was a producer of Bojan Bodružić's 2018 documentary film The Museum of Forgotten Triumphs.
At the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, Drljaca received a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The White Fortress.[6]
Drljaca is an associate professor in film production at the University of British Columbia's theatre and film department.[7]