An award-winning filmmaker and TV director, Vladan has worked as writer/director, editor and producer on feature films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos. His films include CUT, The End of The Millennium, Serendipity, Burn, Going Under, and others. His latest narrative feature, Love, screened at the Venice and Tribeca Film festivals, won the Young Jury Award in Geneva, Switzerland, Best Directing Award in Tiburon, California, and has been released to critical acclaim. He teaches Film and Media classes in the Bachelor’s, and in the graduate Media Studies programs. He has also taught film production and digital filmmaking at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and at New York University.


In 2007, Vladan Nikolic completed, The City, a feature documentary that explores the human condition, now, in New York City, through a cross-section of unique overlapping stories of non-native New Yorkers, exiles, immigrants, and refugees. The film was shot over a period of five years, and included over one hundred characters. Based on this production, Vladan has developed the New York Documentary Workshop, which he taught in the summer of 2007.


Courses:
The Aesthetics of Directing
Integrated Media Production
Directing for the Screen
Visual Systems