Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Igor Drljača completed his Masterʼs in Film Production at York Universityʼs graduate program in 2011. He is the recipient of the Ontario Art Council's K.M. Hunter artist award for media arts in 2014. His award winning shorts include Woman in Purple (2010), and The Fuse: or How I Burned Simon Bolivar (2011), which have screened at hundreds of festivals, including: South by Southwest, Toronto, Telluride, Tampere, Palm Springs Shortfest, Vancouver and Melbourne. In 2013, The Fuse was nominated as best short documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. His critically acclaimed debut feature Krivina (2012) premiered at TIFF and had its international premiere at Rotterdam. He co-produced Albert Shinʼs In Her Place (2014), which received 7 CSA nominations,
Bosnia and Herzegovina