"Jeneffa is the best" Alison Owen, Producer; Elizabeth, back to black, Suffragette, Saving Mr Banks
"Jeneffa truly understands acting. She knows how to unlock the actor and reveal my potential" Johny Coyne, Hangover III, Tomb Raider, Gangster Squad, Alcatraz.
"Find the universal truth in a character and show it to an audience so they know they are not alone" Jeneffa Soldatic
Jeneffa Soldatic is an Australian/Croatian award winning director who’s father immigrated from the former Yugoslavia. Growing up in the outer suburbs of Australia as one of the only kids in her town from a culturally and linguistically diverse background, she became a storyteller to be included and to provide inclusivity. Since 1997 she has traveled and worked extensively around the world. Along the way she honed and refined her skills and has accumulated an award winning body of work as a director, producer, and an acting coach. She directed films; The Honey Makers by Deborah Grimberg in London for Executive Producer Alison Owen, Azzurro with Giacomo Gianniotti from Grey’s Anatomy, Winner Best Short Film at Santa Monica Film Festival, Official Selection at Italian Contemporary Film Festival, in Toronto, Gold Coast International Film Festival, Roma Cinema Doc and Oregon Short Film Festival, Super 80 winning selection of the 2018 Straight 8 Film Festival in London BFI and Cinequest Film Festival, Give Me A Minute won the Best Australian Short Film at the World Film Fair in NYC, Joy House Film Festival Runner Up Best Short, Giphy Film Festival, Stellar Film Festival and … is the thing with feathers as official selection of the 2019 Straight 8 Film Competition London. Soon to be premiered at San Antonio Film Festival and Global Impact Film Festival in DC, she directed the dramatic short film, Ordinary in Los Angeles part of the International New York Film Festival and Golden State Film Festival award winning anthology, Her Mind in Pieces. For theatre she directed the multi-award winning play Speaking in Tongues for the LA Australian Theatre Company, including a Stage Scene Award for Best Director. In 2018 she directed, Things I Know To Be True in Los Angeles, Australian Theatre Company and The Hammer for the San Diego Fringe Festival. In 2017, The Incredible Here and Now commissioned by The National Theater of Parramatta, and The Normal Heart at the Eternity Playhouse in Sydney for the Marriage Equality vote. She directed, produced and worked as an acting coach on, the popular youtube web series Then That Happened multi-nominated LA WebFest, Be Careful What You Wish for Edinburgh Fringe, Winner-Pick of the Fringe Dolores. She also produced, developed and story edited documentaries that have gone on to major film festivals including, Yes Madam, Sir with Helen Mirren which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF). Further highlights include performing The Guardian Angel at the Living Theatre by personal invitation from Judith Malina, starring in the all female Waiting for Godot at the original Circle in the Square NYC, and touring with The Polyphonic Spree, supporting David Bowie. Jeneffa has served as an on-set and private Acting Coach to many accomplished award winning international actors on Emmy and Bafta nominated TV shows, and at major international drama schools. She continues to hold acting workshops in Sydney, Caracas Venezuela, Perth, Paris, NYC, Bangkok and London as per invitation and is regularly invited to give master-classes, talk on panels and judge work internationally at Pace University in NYC, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok University, National Institute of Dramatic Art, University of New South Wales, Commune of Avigliano Umbro in Italy, Actors Centre Australia and is a current board member of Fundación Gimnasio de Actores in Venezuela as Head of the Advisory Council. After receiving her MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School in NYC she became a proud life member of the Actors Studio. She was recently invited to the new Directors Unit of the Actors Studio in NYC under multi-award winner Estelle Parsons and was appointed as Adjunct Professor at Pace University Performing Arts School in NYC. Jeneffa has resided in the USA since 2012. Jeneffa is also an expert collumnist for Backstage Magazine in NYC.
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