Vesna Cudic's Page

Vesna grew up in a small Croatian village famous for absolutely nothing, so at a very early age she decided to put Darda on the world map. She published her first poems aged nine, and throughout her schooling continued to write poetry and prose, receiving numerous awards in Tito’s Yugoslavia. She studied Political Science at Sarajevo University, and worked as a radio journalist specialising in film and visual arts. When the war broke out, she escaped to England, where she has been living since 1992.

After being granted refugee status, she began studying film in Farnham graduating with a First Class Honours Degree, and a spread in the New Talent issue of Campaign magazine featuring her work. She went on to do an M.A. in Fiction Direction at the National Film and Television School, and graduated in 2003. Vesna has participated in Moontone Filmmakers Lab, Berlinale Script Clinic and Talent Campus, Cinelink Feature Development Programme, Cottbus Pitching Forum, Zagrebdox Pitching Forum, Eurodoc Development Programme, Film London’s Microschool, C4’s Cinema Extreme Workshops and others. Vesna has screened her shorts on TV and at numerous film festivals across the world, and has been awarded a Royal Television Society Award, a Fujifilm Scholarship, two Student Kodak Commercials Awards, and several film festival awards. She has also directed for TV.

Her work seesaws between comedy and tragedy, between light and dark. Her primary interests are the interior lives of people and the idiosyncrasies of relationships.

Currently, while trying to gain more TV experience, she is directing documentaries, and developing feature film projects in partnership with producer Camilla Bray from Sixteen Films. Vesna is represented by Elinor Burns at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.