Iva Radivojevic was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus, and eventually New York. She is an artist who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Radivojevic’s films have screened at the New York Film Festival, Locarno IFF, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, CPH:DOX, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, and others. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Princess Grace Foundation, and Film Fellowship. She’s currently a Ph.D. candidate at Villa Arson in Nice, France.
When The Phone Rang, her new book of auto fiction was published by Red Herring Press in the UK in 2025. Her film by the same name premiered at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival where it received a Special Mention award. In 2024, she was honored with a retrospective of her work at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM).
At MacDowell in 2013, Radivojevic edited feature length documentary project Evaporating Borders, executive produced by Laura Poitras. During her 2026 residency, she researched and developed her fourth feature film titled Timaeus.
