Nika Jurman

Nika Jurman (1991) is a Slovene screenwriter and director with a philosophy, literature, and film criticism background. Her first screenwriting project was a successful comedy series, Paired Up (2015-2017), where she co-wrote for two seasons. The series was well received and set an important milestone in Slovenian production of TV originals. In 2017, she started writing her first full feature film, Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song with the director Ester Ivakič. She attended the Midpoint feature launch in 2020 with the same project, and the shooting wrapped this summer. Interested in comedy, last year she wrote, directed, animated, and produced an independent animated short called Borbike (2022), which got an instant cult following and won the best animation award at the Slovenian Film Festival. Currently, she is developing the script for her short fiction comedy Little House on the Midpoint Shorts 2023.