Elma Tataragic was born in Sarajevo in 1976. She graduated Dramaturgy (Screenwriting and History of Cinema) at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts and obtained her Master of Science degree and PhD in Film and Literature. She has been with Sarajevo Film Festival since it was founded in 1995, where she now works as selector for Competition Program. She co-wrote short film FIRST DEATH EXPERIENCE and wrote and produced short NORTH WENT MAD. She has produced and co-written the feature film SNOW shown at Cannes 2008 – Semaine de la critique where the film won the Grand Prix. The film has been shown at over 80 festivals and won over 30 international awards. She is General Secretary and a member of Filmmakers Association of BiH. She has been teaching screenwriting at Sarajevo Academy of Performing Arts since 2002, now as a professor. She is member of European Film Academy. She has published a book on screenwriting and is also working as advisor to European Film Academy and was a delegate for Rome Film Festival in 2012 and 2013. 2015 - DAN KOJI NIJE IMAO IME / THE DAY THAT HAD NO NAME, cowriter (preproduction); ŠAVOVI / STITCHES, screewriter (preproduction); 2013 - HOLIDAY AT THE SEASIDE, short (development advisor

2011 - TJELESNE FUNKCIJE / BODILY FUNCTIONS, short (development advisor); 2010 - REVERS, kratki (development advisor); 2008 - SNIJEG / SNOW, writer/ producer; 2003 - SJEVER JE POLUDIO / NORTH WENT MAD,short / writer/ producer; 2001 - PRVO SMRTNO ISKUSTVO / FIRST DEATH EXPERIENCE, short / writer; 2000 - PLUS MINUS, kratki (scenaristica i rediteljica)

Gabor Pinter - Director/Producer: M.A. in Multimedia Directing, Film, TV, Radio and Theatre, M.A. in English language and literature. FILM DIRECTING: Director, writer and co-producer of White Faces, shot in Northern Albania for RAI;  Series produced by Gil Rossellini. The first western film to be shot in Albania. Awards:Venice Film Festival, RAI Award; Chicago Film Festival, Series Award; San Francisco Film Festival, Golden Gate - Special Jury Award; Hungarian Film Festival, Certificate of Merit; Screenings: MOMA - New York; Brisbane Film Festival; YU Film Festival - Novi Sad;   Museum of Arts  - Budapest;   Avilés Film Festival –Spain; Director/Writer/Producer “Bosnia Blues – Confessions of an Actor Abroad”.

FILM PRODUCTION- Producer and director  of short films shot in Albania in  for RAIDUE;  Mixer/Central Express; Executive Producer for Croatia  Noone’s Island,  dir.: Ferenc Török; Post prod advisor Karaula,  dir: Rajko Grlic and numerous other films; Production Liason for Hungary Uprising,  Raffaella de Laurentis & Jon Avnet Production; Hungarian 1st AD  Shot Through the Heart , dir: David Attwood; Co - 1st AD  Hungarian crew “Underground”, dir. Emir Kusturica; Co - 1st AD “Stalin”, dir: Ivan Passer; AD Meeting Venus, dir: István Szabó;  Producer and director on numerous commercials and  music promos. TELEVISION- Production director, Internews Network, Holland, Bosnia; Series producer & director Balkan Bridges; Screenwriter & director of the top Hungarian sitcom; Executive Producer & director of a current affairs magazine shot in 12 East European countries and produced for RAI DUE. THEATRE-

Directed numerous plays in theatre, among others, The Sparkler by Gyula Hernádi. The first theatre performance ever to be performed aboard an aeroplane in flight.