Ana Lasić

Ana Lasić (born Belgrade, Serbia) is a screenwriter and playwright.

Lasić graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts, Department of Dramaturgy and Screenplay Writing. Her senior thesis, which took the form of the play “Where Are You Coming From?” won the Selenic Prize, annually given for best graduating play. The production has since been printed in German and its original Serbian, and has been performed at Theater Forum in Berlin.

In 2004, Lasić's first feature film “Ruins”, written with director Janez Burger, was released. The film won the prize for Best Slovenian Film at the 7th Slovenian Film Festival, and went to festivals around Europe and the United States, including the Rotterdam Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Minneapolis, Motovun, and [[Palm Springs Film Festival|Palm Springs. At the Lecce film festival, “Ruins” won the Special Jury Award.

Lasić’s plays have been produced in Slovenia and abroad. For “For Now Nowhere”, she won the Dominik Smole Price for the best Slovenian play of 2006. The films “Angela Vode Hidden Memories”, “Balkan Is Not Dead”, “Driving School”, and the Slovenian adaptation of the series "In Treatment", for which she wrote the screenplays, also won several awards.

Lasić is a docent for Screenwriting at the State Academy for Theater, Film and TV (AGRFT) in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

During her stay at the Ingmar Bergman Estate in Fårö, Sweden, in April 2017, Lasić finished her new screenplay for the feature film “Green Softness”, and is in the process of looking for a producer and director.