Jovan Jovanović

Jovan "Joca" Jovanović (31 May 1940 — 3 August 2022) was a Serbian director, screenwriter, editor and film theorist.

Biography Jovanović was born on May 31, 1940, in Belgrade, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He graduated in film directing at the Belgrade Academy of Theater, Film, Radio and Television with the medium-length feature film Distinctly Me (1967). His documentary film Kolt 15 Gap (1971) won awards at festivals in Oberhausen, Utrecht and Belgrade, was included in the Anthology of Films of the Oberhausen Festival (published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival), and the American film historian Erik Barnouw included it in his book Documentary – A History of the Non-Fiction Film.

He is the author of the book Introduction to Film Thought.

Filmography

Feature films

Distinctly Me (1967) Young and Healthy as Rose (1971) Landscapes in the Mist (1983)

Documentary films

Self-portrait (1961) University Town (1965) Kolt 15 Gap (1971) Rrevolution that flows (1972) Working Class Artists (1975) Drug Addicts (1976) The Man Who Created Systems (1990)