Sabina Vajraca

Sabina Vajraca

director, writer, producer

Sabina Vajraca was born on May 30, 1977 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sabina Vajraca's big-screen debut came with Voodoo Macbeth directed by Dagmawi Abebe in 2021.

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, AWD, 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.

  • Birthday

    May 30, 1977
  • Place of Birth

    Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Awards

8 wins & 7 nominations

Catalina Film Festival
2021
Voodoo Macbeth (2021)
Winner - Best Director
Charlotte Black Film Festival
2021
Feature Film
Winner - Best Director
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