SRPSKI ENGLISH

journalist, screenwriter and producer



Dragana Vera lives and works in Hollywood, California.





Contact: draganavera@gmail.com

She had a very successful career for over 20 years in former Yougoslavia uner her previous name of Dragana Savić. She was active in radio, magazines and the digital media. She continued her work in USA starting in 2004. She is one of the rare breed of journalists that was very active without joining any political party for 20 years. Dragana studied at Law School of Niš, Political Science in Belgrade, the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and Language Systems International in Los Angeles. She is involved in preservation of environment and strives to bring about better understanding and solidarity amongst people.



Through her investigative reporting she prevented illegal sale of archeological treasures from Roman Virminacium site.The most influential and most interesting people of the Balkan elite granted her interviews about their business and personal lives.



She reached peak of her career in 1998, at the age of 32 when she became the Editor- in-Chief of the family magazine “NADA NOVA”, that was the most successful magazine in Yougoslavia at the time.



Besides journalism, Dragana was involved in many humanitarian and cultural events in Serbia, Montenegro and Republika Srpska which benefited the orphans and all refugees. Very brave and wordly - in the middle of the war in former Yugoslavia - she started the first Internet magazine “View Through Binoculars” - “Pogled kroz dvogled”.



The “View Through Binoculars” is the project of the famous journalist Dragana Savić who writes analitically, through modern forms of jurnalism about events from former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkans insisting on so called “third solution” - economic, cultural and political connection between Balkan countries, writes “BLIC” in June of 1999.