DIRECTOR | PRODUCER | ON-CAMERA HOST
Katarina is a dedicated freelance director (self shooting when needed), producer, researcher and on-camera host with TV documentary experience for channels like VICE, Al Jazeera, TRT World, AFP and others.
After studies in Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre at UNITEC Auckland and graduating with a degree in Theatre Directing at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, Katarina obtained a Master’s degree in Multimedia Journalism at Bournemouth University (UK).
In theatre she directed Shakespeare, Lorca, Buzzati and Chekhov but concluding with a play by Milena Depolo – a pioneering project in Serbian theatre dealing with the subject of the inclusion of children with Down syndrome, Katarina shifts her focus solely on the documentary film.
As Head of Production in VICE Serbia since its launch in 2014, she partook in establishing the office and the required VICE film style and format, then moved her focus solely to the creative as Supervising Producer, overseeing all of the production’s films. She directed and hosted on-camera documentaries broadcast on various VICE platforms (VICE Serbia, VICELAND, VICE International)
Katarina was born in Belgrade where she lives and works. She is bilingual in English and Serbian and fluent in French (DELF).
EXPERIENCE ON TELEVISION & ONLINE
- Produced, directed and hosted “Serbia’s Waste Crisis”, “Serbia: Vaccination Nation” and “Serbia’s Plastic Waste” on Across The Balkans documentary TV series, TRT World 2020/2021
- Directed and hosted “Earth Homes” and “Serbia’s Recycling Problem” on Extinction Update documentary series, VICE UK 2019/2020
- Researcher/Local Producer on episode of “Trafficked With Mariana Van Zeller” National Geographic 2020
- Directed and hosted documentary film “Otpadne vode Beograda” (Belgrade’s Waste Waters) Al Jazeera Balkans 2020
- Producer (freelance) for Zinc Network UK 2019/2020
- Video Journalist (freelance) for Agence France Presse, 2018 – present
- Produced, directed and hosted documentary film “Vraćena nevinost“, (Virginity Regained) VICE Serbia 2018
- Supervising Producer and film director at VICE Serbia 2016 – 2017
- Head of Production and film director at VICE Serbia 2014 – 2016
Documentaries while in VICE Serbia 2014-2017, broadcast on Prva Srpska TV:
Show reel can be found here
- Directed and hosted “Ispravljanje krivine”, (Bikers and Death) 48min
- On-camera host for “Previše željena deca”, (Adopting Children in Serbia) dir. Marko Popovic
- Directed and hosted “Broj koji nemam”, (Young Gamblers in Serbia)
- Directed International Mom Advice shorties episode on Munchies
- Directed and hosted “Izvan granica seksa”, (Crossing Sexual Boundaries) 38min
- Directed and hosted “Tetovirane bake”, (Tattooed Grandmas of Bosnia) 28min
- Directed and hosted “Bacanje hrane”, (Food Waste) 39min
- Directed Bloody Arena VICE International (“U ringu do krvi” on VICE Serbia) 20min
- Directed and hosted Cannabis Between Pain and the Law, VICE International 28min
- On-camera host for “Kako su guze pobedile mišiće”, (Women Bodybuilders) dir. D. Čavić/D. Šaponja 13min
- Directed, shot and hosted Beneath The Concrete, VICE International, 19min
- Directed and hosted Blood Debt, VICE International, *Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival 2015, 34min
- Producer and Director at Trident Media Group 2011 – 1013
Directed and hosted documentary mini-series Katarinin izbor
- Producer and director at BELEF (Belgrade Summer Festival) 2011 and 2012
Directed “The Chronicles of BELEF broadcast on RTV Studio B and BELEF AV21
- Directed short documentary “The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Proms”, UK 2010
- Produced video, radio and text on Invisible Children: The UK’s take on Inclusion of children with Special Educational Needs, UK 2010
- Co-Writer and 1st Assistant Director on film “The Legend of Ohrid” dir. Milos Djukelic, RTS 2008
- Directed in Theatre 2002 – 2009:
“Who Is Laurette?” by F. Cadier/M. Depolo, “Birdcage” by J. Poiret, “The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in His Garden” by F. G. Lorca, “Inya Saves Christmas”, “Romanticisms”, selected texts from the Russian Avanguard, “Crime on Goat Island“ by U. Betti, “Something Beginning with L“ by D. Buzzati, “Shakespeare Files”, selected scenes from W. Shakespeare’s comedies
LANGUAGES
Serbian, English, French (conversational), Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin (native-like)
INTERNSHIPS
- Intern Researcher on Channel4’s Unreported World series (Quicksilver Media Productions), Oxford 2010
- Intern on Five News (Channel Five), London 2010
- Intern on Sky Arts, London 2010
EDUCATION
- MA in Multimedia Journalism (BJTC Accredited), Bournemouth University UK 2010. Course based on convergence of reporting in Television, Radio and Online Journalism.
- One World Media, undertook a workshop covering issues related to reporting and filming in the developing world, UK 2010
- BA in Theatre Directing, Academy of Arts in Belgrade (Prof. Nikita Milivojevic) 2004
- Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre, Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts, UNITEC. Auckland, New Zealand 1998/99
- Westerford High School, Cape Town RSA
- Frank Joubert Art School (Painting), Cape Town RSA
- Grade 8 Piano, “Josif Marinkovic” Music School, Belgrade
Katarina Petrović 