Ivana Smudja is a film director based in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

In 2009, she graduated in film direction from the European Institute of Design (IED) in Milan.

Since 2012 she has worked in the fiction and commercial film industry, initially as an assistant

director and then as a director. During her formative years, she also worked at

TEATRO PICCOLO MILANO and VICE Italy, where she cultivated a more documentary-style

approach blending it with her distinctive artistic vision.

Ivana is fluent in Italian, Serbo-Croatian, English and Dutch.

Check also her illustrations