Ivana Mihic

Short Biography

Ivana Mihic was born in Belgrade. She started her acting career at the age of nine appearing in the film "Srecna porodica". Right after, at the age of fourteen she played one of the five leading roles in the film "Varljivo leto 68" (directed by Goran Paskaljevic). Until entering the University of Dramatic Arts she acted in feature film 'Oktoberfest' (directed by Dragan Kresoja) and TV film based on story written by Milos Crnjanski "Roman o Londonu" (directed by Mira Trailovic.Ivana finished ballet school "Lujo Davico" in Belgrade (Yugoslavia, Serbia) as well as music school. She studied at the University of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (Yugoslavia, Serbia). She played lead roles in the numerous theatrical productions. Ivana has recorded a CD and Cassette for PGP-RTS with music from the performance of Trinidad. In 1995. she founded the film production company "Horizont 2000". As a producer and executive producer she has, so far, produced four films: "Buy me an Eliot", "Mechanism", "She loves Red Star", "Poor little hamsters"; one tv series, one tv film "The play of Mirrors", and also published one book "Perle od vode" written by Vera Cukic. For the production of her films, she twice received the Silver Arena award for best film in the Novi Sad Film Festival. She also received the Yu Fipresci award for best film twice. She has received many other awards for her work and has taken part in over 30 International Film Festivals with films from her production company "Horizont 2000". For the film "Mechanism" she won the international jury of critics Fipresci award for best film in Troia (Portugal) and the Findling award for the best Art Film in Cottbus (Germany). She is the recipient of the "Oskar Popularnosti 2000" award for her role in the film "Mechanism". For her role of Snezana in the film "Mechanism" she received the award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Alexandria (Egypt). She was chairperson of Association of Serbian Film Producers. She wrote a novel "Moj jedini zivot" ("My only life" /2008. Published by Laguna). She write a monthly column for the oldest and highly respected daily news paper "Politika". She is Country PR & Media Chair - Rotary International District 2481 (2010/2011) and (2011/2012).