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Hanna Jovin is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto, Canada, whose work spans narrative, documentary, and animated storytelling. As a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, and Animator/Illustrator, she works across all stages of production, exploring themes of resilience, identity, and transformation through a strong visual and emotionally grounded lens.

A graduate with honours from Toronto Metropolitan University’s Film Production program, Hanna has worked with major broadcasters including CBC Docs, BBC Earth, Channel 4, Paramount+, Discovery, and History Channel. Her 2017 short film Erika, set in 1940s Nazi-occupied Bosnia, won multiple awards including Best Film and Best Director at the TMU Film Festival, and later screened at the Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival.

In 2019, she directed the six-part CBC Docs series Before and After, with the Cancer Diagnosis episode featuring Canadian gymnast Tamara O’Brien garnering over 2 million views on YouTube. She was also Associate Producer on 9/11 Kids, which won the Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs 2020 and Best Documentary at the 2021 Canadian Screen Awards.

In 2022, Hanna directed and produced The Middle, an experimental split-screen short awarded Best Film at the Regina, Charlottetown, and Silver Wave Film Festivals. The film is currently streaming on CBC Gem as part of Canadian Reflections, Canada’s longest-running showcase of independent short films.

Her latest project, SARAJEVO TWINS— a live-action/animated short funded by the Toronto Arts Council — is currently in production.

Hanna is deeply committed to telling intimate, emotionally resonant stories that explore love, identity, belonging and cultural inheritance, particularly through the lens of her Serbian, Bosnian, and Canadian heritage.

When she’s not directing or producing, you can find her on a European patio sipping a cappuccino, browsing art museum gift shops, or catching a double feature at her local cinema.