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Ivan Kraljevic

  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Producer
  • Actor
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Ivan Kraljevic was born in Kotor Montenegro on August 13th 1975. He is the son of a Croatian sea captain and Montenegrian banker mother. In 1979 Kotor was shook by a 6.9 earthquake, Ivan survived only because his mom took him out of his bed moments before the stone wall collapsed on on it. Ivan was raised by his maternal great-grandmother, Stana, while both his parents worked. Stana was instrumental in igniting Ivan's love for storytelling. Each night before bedtime she would share stories from her lifetime; she had seen two world wars and countless armies march through their city of Kotor. Stana passed on lessons of true value and human nature to Ivan. In 1991 when the civil war broke out in Yugoslavia Stana was ready with fifty kilo bags of sugar and flour each. Ivan spent his formative years learning English and Italian by watching movies and dreaming about making his own. In January of 1992 at the age of sixteen, Ivan had to move to the United States as a high school exchange student to avoid being drafted into both the Croatian and Serbian armies, which were in conflict with each other at the time. Ivan had friends and relatives on all three sides of the war. America, along with the help of the Milicevic family, became the nurturing home to replace the one he had just lost. The early tales from his great-grandmother, the journey out of conflict and finding his way in the United States gave Ivan fuel for his lifelong love of filmmaking and storytelling. Ivan joined the Directors Guild in 1999, he has won multiple awards and festivals for his Directing work. With over one hundred projects completed in various capacities and Directing his first feature film "The Harvesting" in 2015 Ivan is motivated more than ever to continue and see where his journey leads.
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Paper (2013)
Paper
8.2
Short
  • Director
  • 2013
Shadows (2014)
Shadows
9.2
Short
  • Producer
  • 2014
Paul Bettany in Priest (2011)
Priest
5.7
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director(second unit)
  • 2011
Sean Harris and Olivia Horton in Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Deliver Us from Evil
6.2
  • Second Unit or Assistant Director(animal unit)
  • 2014

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Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Eric André in The Eric Andre Show (2012)
    The Eric Andre Show
  • Unsolved Mysteries (2020)
    Unsolved Mysteries
  • Spike Lee and Jane Goodall in Dear... (2020)
    Dear...
  • Kid Correspondent (2021)
    Kid Correspondent
  • Dutch (2021)
    Dutch
  • Daisye Tutor in Shook (2021)
    Shook
  • Pauly Shore, Steve-O, Aimee Teegarden, and Mike Castle in Guest House (2020)
    Guest House
  • Gina Rodriguez in Jane the Virgin (2014)
    Jane the Virgin
  • Christian Bale in Vice (2018)
    Vice
  • James Corden in The Late Late Show with James Corden (2015)
    The Late Late Show with James Corden
  • Sarah Silverman in I Love You, America (2017)
    I Love You, America
  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • Jennifer Garner in Peppermint (2018)
    Peppermint
  • Andrew Garfield and Riley Keough in Under the Silver Lake (2018)
    Under the Silver Lake
  • Will Arnett in Flaked (2016)
    Flaked

Producer

  • Transplant
    • Post-production
  • A Thousand Tomorrows
  • The Book of Queer (2022)
    The Book of Queer
  • Link Neal and Rhett McLaughlin in Inside Eats with Rhett & Link (2022)
    Inside Eats with Rhett & Link
  • Shark Week (1987)
    Shark Week
  • Fight of the Living Dead (2015)
    Fight of the Living Dead
  • The Millionaire Matchmaker (2008)
    The Millionaire Matchmaker
  • Shadows (2014)
    Shadows
  • Saving Private K-9 (2014)
    Saving Private K-9
  • When Women Ruled the World (2008)
    When Women Ruled the World
    • (2007)
  • I Know My Kid's a Star
  • Trail of the Screaming Forehead
    Trail of the Screaming Forehead
  • Bullrun (2007)
    Bullrun

Actor

  • Billy Bob Thornton in Goliath (2016)
    Goliath
    • (uncredited)
  • Michael Peña and Seth Rogen in Observe and Report (2009)
    Observe and Report
  • Master P in Uncle P (2007)
    Uncle P
  • Tournament of Dreams (2007)
    Tournament of Dreams
  • Michael Madsen, Gary Busey, Shannyn Sossamon, and Corey Large in Chasing Ghosts (2005)
    Chasing Ghosts
    • (uncredited)
  • Michael Paré and Antonio Sabato Jr. in Crash Landing (2005)
    Crash Landing
  • Sabrina Lloyd in Dopamine (2003)
    Dopamine
  • Mel Harris in Another Pretty Face (2002)
    Another Pretty Face
    • (uncredited)
  • Raptor (2001)
    Raptor
  • XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001)
    XCU: Extreme Close Up
  • Air Rage (2001)
    Air Rage
    • (uncredited)
  • Twice the Fun (2000)
    Twice the Fun
  • Newsbreak (2000)
    Newsbreak
  • Around the Fire (1998)
    Around the Fire
    • (uncredited)
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Personal details

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    • Elena Nikitina BickMarch 12, 2011 - March 4, 2018 (divorced)
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    As a child, at the age of twelve, Ivan would spend the summer afternoons watching an American production company filming "The Dark Side of the Sun" in his home town of Kotor. His interest and passion for the filming process was recognized by the assistant director who even gave him a walkie talkie on some occasions to help with crowd control. Ivan among the other local kids became friends and often went swimming with the cast and dolphin "Joca", a wild dolphin that came into the bay of Kotor one day and stayed for years becoming a part of the community. One young skinny and friendly American actor was always there and enjoyed playing with "Joca" and swimming with the local kids, he went on to become a film star and opened Ivan's mind to the possibility and reaching for the dream of making movies. The skinny actor with a big smile is Brad Pitt.

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