Jovanka Vuckovic is an award winning writer and filmmaker. She got her start in broadcasting as a visual effects artist, winning a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) for Best Visual Effects, then went on to edit the horror publication Rue Morgue Magazine for six and a half years. Her presence at the helm opened up the doors for more women to become involved in the horror genre and she has been twice-named one of the most influential women in horror, alongside Kathryn Bigelow, Debra Hill, and Mary Shelley.

Vuckovic now writes and directs her own films. The first of which, the award-winning short The Captured Bird, was executive produced by genre film legend Guillermo del Toro. She has been an outspoken voice for gender equality in film and in 2016 she executive produced and directed a segment for XX, the first ever all-female horror anthology from XYZ Films/Magnet Releasing, which had its world premiere at Sundance in 2017. She is a proud member of The Directors Guild of America as well as The Directors Guild of Canada. She is also the author of Zombies! An Illustrated History of the Undead, from St. Martin's Press (with an introduction by zombie godfather, George Romero).

Jovanka Vuckovic at 2025 Sitges International Film Festival

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Director Jovanka Vuckovic at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival

Jovanka Vuckovic at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Park City, Utah. 

XX directors Roxanne Benjamin, Annie Clarke, Jovanka Vuckovic and Sofia Carrillo at The Sundance Film Festival, 2017.

Jovanka Vuckovic at the premiere of XX at The Sundance Film Festival, 2017.

Jovanka Vuckovic on the set of XX ("The Box") with Natalie Brown, Peter DaCunha and Peyton Kennedy.

With cinematographer Karim Hussain on the set of The Captured Bird (2012).

Jovanka Vuckovic amongst other Canadian filmmakers at Berlinale International Film Festival 2016

Munro Chambers, Paloma Kwiatkowski, Madison Iseman, and Evan Marsh in Riot Girls (2019)

Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon in Helstrom (2020)

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