Tijana is a filmmaker, cinematographer and teacher born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Her moving image work includes nonfiction films, and film and video installations which use landscape as a framework through which to observe and question our relationships to history, place and the natural world. Her recent film A Field Guide to Coastal Fortifications had its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2023 and won the ‘Best Film Award’ in the National Competition at the 16th Beldocs IDFF, as well as an Honorable Mention at Onion City Experimental Film Festival. Tijana’s work has screened at film festivals and exhibition venues internationally including True/False, Images, Ann Arbor, Dok Leipzig, Anthology Film Archives and Pacific Film Archive among others. She received support from various institutions including SFFILM, New York Foundation for the Arts, University Film and Video Association, Fleishhacker Foundation and The Enersen Foundation, among others.
Tijana is a graduate of the Documentary Film and Video MFA program at Stanford University and the Documentary Media Studies certificate program at The New School in NY. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works as a freelance cinematographer and lecturer at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.