Jadranka Cicvarić Šiftar was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, in 1961. After graduating in industrial electronics from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb, for several years she worked both in her professional field and on Radio 101. In 2004, she founded Trigon, an independent production company where she worked as a producer, scriptwriter and editor. In 2013, she started directing in collaboration with FADE IN and Interfilm production companies. She is currently working on her film Godišnjica mature.