Janja Glogovac is a Slovenian film director. She is one of the first woman film directors who was honoured to make a feature film in Slovenia called L..like love. She studied at FAMU film Academy in Prague specialised in feature film directing and made a master degree in 2002. Between 1994 and 2000 she worked as a film director for the Croatian television (HTV), Slovenian radio-television (RTV) and for Czech national television (CTV). She shot more than 70 documentaries and reportages across Europe.

She is the most known for directing the movies Tito, F, L...like love and Teslafy Me. Her documentary TITO is about Josip Broz Tito - the life time president of Yugoslavia. Her movie is showing a personal life of the president. The film was screened at Cannes, Independent Argentina film festival, Karlovy Vary film festival, Jichlava film festival and many other international film festivals around the world. The readers of the review Stop in Slovenia chose TITO as the best film of the year. The movie was also nominated for the award Victor in Slovenia and for the award at IDFA film festival in Amsterdam, where it got special recognition.

For her short film F she got an award of Czech literary found for the best script she wrote. F was also awarded by the Paris Film Academy for the best European movie at the Creteil film festival in France. The film F was at the official selection of many international film festivals such as Cannes, Edinburgh film festival, Karlovy Vary film festival, Cottbus film festival, Independent Buenos Aires film festival, Torin film festival, Media Desk Helas Sthens, International Sao Paulo film festival, and many other film festivals. The film F was selected also by Kodak company to present Janja Glogovac as a new film talent at the Cannes film festival.

Her feature movie L..like love with a controversial story and incredible cast was premiered at the Rotterdam film festival. The commission of the Eurocine 27 chose L...like love for the opening film at the film festival in Brussels, that took place simultaneously in 5 other cities in Europe (Paris, Strasbourg, Lyon, Madrid and Rome) and it was latter screened also in all countries of the European Union. The movie L...LIKE LOVE traveled the world through the international film festival such as: Cannes film festival, Warshaw film festival, International film festival Raindance in London,... The commission of the Valencia Film Festival was so inspired by the film L...LIKE LOVE that they opened a new devision at their film festival called Film by Women. L..LIKE LOVE was an opening film of that devision at Valencia Film Festival.

All of her movies were screened in the official selection of the most important A film festivals around the world. They got remarkable critics and recognitions. Her film language is unique, her visual style very reach and colourful showing daring stories.

Documentary film Teslafy Me is her latest work that it is about a genius inventor Nikola Tesla. The film is pointing out his inventions, giving understanding for them and showing his vision of the whole system that he created for our future. The trans-media part of the project Teslafy.Me was awarded as the best transmedia project at the East Doc Platform in Prague, 2017. And in 2019 the distribution of Teslafy Me started in US and Canada and later around the world.

Janja Glogovac is also an established film producer and with her production skills she co - produced or produced almost all of her movies. But her passion is film directing and film writing. She is a remarkable film director, very devoted to her work with incredible skills. She is not only very special person full of talents, but she is also brave and honest what is clearly seen through her movies.

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