Sabina Vajrača

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Also Known As Sabina Vajraca

Sabina Vajrača

Biography

Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sabina Vajraca immigrated to the U.S. as a war refugee in 1994. A natural storyteller, she started working in theatre as a teenager, eventually getting her B.F.A. in Theatre Directing and Stage Management. After graduation she worked in NYC, focusing on devised theatre and movement/experimental approach to Shakespeare and other Classics. Her first film, the critically-acclaimed feature documentary "Back to Bosnia," premiered at the 2005 AFI Fest and screened at over 30 festivals worldwide, winning Director's Choice at the Crossroads Film Festival. Since then, she wrote, directed, and produced numerous narrative shorts, commercials for ESPN and IFP, a music video for Nouvelle Vague's "Bela Lugosi's Dead," and wrote a number of award-winning feature and short screenplays. Sabina is the Annenberg Scholar, a Student BAFTA and Oscars nominee, a member of Film Fatales, Women in Film, WIMPS, and Lincoln Center's Directors Lab, and an alumna of the Ryan Murphy Half Directing Mentorship, the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony, and the Stowe Story Labs, where she won the Tangerine Fellowship. She holds an M.F.A. in Film and TV Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Known For

Director

2023
Sevap/Mitzvah

as Director

2021
Voodoo Macbeth

as Director

2019
Callback

as Director

2019
Variables

as Director

2019
Spoiled Milk

as Assistant Director

2011
Smoking Kills

as Director

2009
Apparition

as Director

2009
Emina

as Director

2005
Back to Bosnia

as Director

Writer

2023
2023
Sevap/Mitzvah

as Writer

2019
Variables

as Writer

2011
Smoking Kills

as Writer

2009
Emina

as Writer

2009
Apparition

as Screenplay

Producer

2009
Apparition

as Producer

2005
Back to Bosnia

as Producer

Costume & Make-Up

2018
Lost Children: Kate & Bill

as Costume Design

Editor