Tijana is a filmmaker, cinematographer and educator born and raised in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her nonfiction films trace connections among landscapes, histories, and the technologies that have shaped and recorded them. Working across essayistic and lyrical modes her place-based filmmaking has mostly focused on the landscapes and histories of California. Her recent short film Flow Attachment, commissioned by the Canyon Cinema Foundation premiered at SFMOMA in 2026. Her film A Field Guide to Coastal Fortifications (2023) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and won ‘Best Film’ award in the National Competition at Beldocs IDFF.
Tijana’s work has screened at film festivals and exhibition venues internationally including True/False, Images, Ann Arbor, Dok Leipzig, Kassel Dokfest, Anthology Film Archives, SFMOMA and the Pacific Film Archive among others. Her work has received support from various institutions including SFFILM, New York Foundation for the Arts, University Film and Video Association, Fleishhacker Foundation and The Enersen Foundation.
As a cinematographer Tijana has worked on award-winning documentary films, as well as commercial, corporate and non profit videos. She has shot projects for CNN, PBS, PBS News Hour, Channel 4, Facebook, The Ford Foundation, VICE Media, People’s Television and Earth Justice among others.
Tijana is based in the San Francisco Bay Area where she works as a freelance cinematographer and teaches in Film and Media at UC Berkeley and Stanford’s Documentary Film MFA program.