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Date of Birth
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19-December-1974
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Place of Birth
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Sarajevo
(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton)
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Nationality
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Also know as
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Jasmila Zbanic, Jasmila Zbanic, Jasmila Zbanics
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Profession
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Film Director, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Puppeteer
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Jasmila Žbanić is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo's Department for Theater and Film Directing. She also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. She is noted for the 2006 Golden Bear winning film Grbavica. In 1997, she founded the artist's association "DEBLOKADA". Žbanić has a young daughter named Zoe. Her 2010 film Na putu was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. According to Žbanić, her first name is a deliberate corruption of the name Jasmina.
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